How Ubisoft built a virtual mountain and then created a video game around it
Steep was born as a labor of love by a team that wanted to give you the feeling that you’re in the Alps flying...
Ubisoft’s Steep is a kinetic dive into extreme winter sports
The team at Ubisoft Annecy has lived in the shadows of the big mountains in Steep for a long time, and they’ve finally got...
Vivendi’s latest purchase of Ubisoft stock shows it isn’t going away
In September, Ubisoft executives breathed a sigh of relief as Vivendi didn’t launch a hostile bid to control the French video game company’s board....
Ubisoft grows thanks to The Division and digital sales, but Watch Dogs 2 preorders hurt guidance
Ubisoft beat its guidance for the first half of the company’s fiscal 2017, but it is taking a conservative outlook for the rest of the...
Ubisoft researcher scouted Watch Dogs 2 by hanging out with hacktivists in SF and DefCon
Thomas Geffroyd spent about 20 years preparing to be the hacker advisor inside Ubisoft for the Watch Dogs 2 game. Well, not really. But...
Why Watch Dogs 2 creators chose to focus on San Francisco’s hacktivism
When Dominic Guay started working on Watch Dogs more than eight years ago, his mandate was to create a new brand for Ubisoft. The...
Privacy author Violet Blue helped Ubisoft capture San Francisco’s hacktivism in Watch Dogs 2
Violet Blue grew up in San Francisco, and she writes about hacker culture and cybercrime in the region’s hacking community. That made Blue, an...
Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 game director tells us how to take on the surveillance state
Watch Dogs 2 is an open world game about hacktivists taking on the smart city of San Francisco. Its anti-hero is Marcus Holloway, a...
Watch us play Eagle Flight: Ubisoft’s VR bird simulator
I believe it was the Steve Miller Band who said, “Flying like an eagle into the future would make a damn fine virtual reality...
Watch Dogs 2 delayed 2 weeks on PC
Ubisoft is notorious for treating the PC versions of its games as if they aren’t nearly as important as their console counterparts. Or that’s...