Categories Posted inin Gameplay Vivendi’s latest purchase of Ubisoft stock shows it isn’t going away Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 8, 2016 1 min 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.... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Ubisoft grows thanks to The Division and digital sales, but Watch Dogs 2 preorders hurt guidance Posted byby Jeff Grubb November 3, 2016 3 min 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... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Ubisoft researcher scouted Watch Dogs 2 by hanging out with hacktivists in SF and DefCon Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 26, 2016 9 min Thomas Geffroyd spent about 20 years preparing to be the hacker advisor inside Ubisoft for the Watch Dogs 2 game. Well, not really. But... Continue Reading 9 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Why Watch Dogs 2 creators chose to focus on San Francisco’s hacktivism Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 25, 2016 10 min When Dominic Guay started working on Watch Dogs more than eight years ago, his mandate was to create a new brand for Ubisoft. The... Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Privacy author Violet Blue helped Ubisoft capture San Francisco’s hacktivism in Watch Dogs 2 Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 24, 2016 6 min 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... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 game director tells us how to take on the surveillance state Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 24, 2016 8 min 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... Continue Reading 8 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Watch us play Eagle Flight: Ubisoft’s VR bird simulator Posted byby Jeff Grubb October 20, 2016 1 min I believe it was the Steve Miller Band who said, “Flying like an eagle into the future would make a damn fine virtual reality... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Watch Dogs 2 delayed 2 weeks on PC Posted byby Jeff Grubb October 18, 2016 2 min 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... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Ubisoft relaunches Uplay Store in time for Watch Dogs 2 Posted byby Jeff Grubb October 5, 2016 2 min Ubisoft doesn’t want to split all of its revenues with retailers. The French publisher announced today that it has relaunched the Uplay Store. This... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Ubisoft sheds more details on its victory over Vivendi at annual meeting Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 29, 2016 1 min Ubisoft shed more light on its annual meeting where its slate of directors was elected despite a looming takeover battle with French media company... Continue Reading 1 min