Categories Posted inin Business Ubisoft’s Steep brings X-Games-like skiing on December 2 to PS4, Xbox One, and PC Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 17, 2016 1 min Ubisoft announced its action sports game Steep will debut on December 2 on the consoles and Windows PC. The game is an sports game set... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Hands-on with For Honor’s brutal sword combat Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 17, 2016 3 min Ubisoft’s For Honor makes me feel like in the middle of a huge medieval battle, like the melee-in-the-mud battles in the film Braveheart. And... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business How Ubisoft game designer wants you to learn swordfighting in For Honor Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 17, 2016 8 min For Honor, the swordfighting fantasy game coming early next year from Ubisoft, has a learning curve. It’s a unique title that requires you to... Continue Reading 8 min
Categories Posted inin Business Hands-on with Ubisoft’s The Crew: Calling All Units Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 17, 2016 1 min Ubisoft showed off the new downloadable content (DLC) for its open world driving game, The Crew. In this case, your job is to try... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Hands-on with co-op and single-player in the hacker’s world of Watch Dogs 2 Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 17, 2016 4 min The first thing I did when I started playing a preview of Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 was to search for the VentureBeat office in... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay South Park: The Fractured But Whole mocks VR with fart-emitting device Posted byby Mike Minotti August 12, 2016 1 min “It was exactly as if someone had farted right in my face.” If you’ve ever seen a sizzle real for a virtual reality headset... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay AMD’s Roy Taylor on how VR will change entertainment Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 7, 2016 10 min Roy Taylor works as corporate vice president of alliances at Advanced Micro Devices, a chip maker that creates processors and graphics chips for personal... Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Just Sing is Ubisoft’s newest music game, and it uses your phone as a mic Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 28, 2016 2 min Now you don’t have to just dance … you can sing as well. Publisher Ubisoft announced Just Sing today. This karaoke game launches September 6 for... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Why it’s hard to go from building games on console to mobile Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 24, 2016 24 min It’s exceedingly hard to take a hit game franchise on consoles and make it successful on mobile devices. Pokémon Go has made that seem easy, but... Continue Reading 24 min
Categories Posted inin Business Ghost Recon: Wildlands makes you live with your tactical screwups Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes July 23, 2016 4 min Four U.S. soldiers against the army of a notorious drug cartel doesn’t sound like a fair battle. But Ghost Recon players have been in... Continue Reading 4 min