Assassin’s Creed: Origins and its Egyptian setting are real
After a long break (OK, maybe not that long), Assassin’s Creed is back. Assassin’s Creed: Origins is taking Ubisoft’s flagship franchise to Egypt, the...
Romania’s indies chase the global market
The history of the games industry is one of relentless globalization, both in terms of content consumption and increasingly in terms of content production....
Star Trek: Bridge Crew’s solo campaign is like posing mannequins in your basement
Ubisoft has another new VR game. This time, it’s all about space communists exploring the cosmos because they live in a post-scarcity society where...
Star Trek: Bridge Crew now comes with every HTC Vive VR headset
The final frontier is the latest experience that comes with HTC’s virtual reality headset. HTC announced this morning that it will begin giving away a...
The dread, the separatism, and the coming collapse of America that inspired Far Cry 5
Dan Hay, creative director of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5, said that the Far Cry franchise is always about the combination of chaos and beauty. His team...
Far Cry 5 focuses on a terrifyingly realistic armed cult
Ubisoft revealed today that Far Cry 5 will be about one of the most disturbing realities about American extremism: an armed religious cult that...
Why Far Cry 5’s Mountain West extremism enables Ubisoft to criticize America
Ubisoft is going to screw up Far Cry 5 — at least as far as my expectations are concerned. But it can only fail because...
Rainbow Six Siege documentary reveals the tactical shooter’s esports scene
You hear a lot about Overwatch and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in esports, but Ubisoft has a shooter of its own that has attracted pro gamers....
Far Cry 5 will be set in Montana
Far Cry 5 will be set in a place called Hope County, Montana, as the open world shooter franchise comes to America for the...
Ubisoft: Far Cry 5 is coming
In a month, the industry will gather in Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow, but Ubisoft isn’t waiting for that event to...