Why it’s hard to go from building games on console to mobile
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...
Ghost Recon: Wildlands makes you live with your tactical screwups
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...
Extreme skier Matilda Rapaport dies in avalanche filming promo for Ubisoft’s Steep
Pro skier Matilda Rapaport, 30, has died after being caught in an avalanche in Chile while filming promotional material for Ubisoft’s new game, Steep....
Ubisoft’s sales were a record 75% digital last quarter
Ubisoft had a strong first fiscal quarter, and digital sales are an enormous piece of its ongoing strategy. The publisher, which is responsible for...
Ubisoft’s Q1 revenues up 44% from last year at $153 million as Vivendi takeover lurks
Ubisoft had a strong quarter thanks to sales from digital revenues. The France-based publisher reported its sales figures for the first fiscal quarter of 2016-17,...
Watch Dogs 2’s San Francisco brings out the playful side of the hacking series
That seems to be the motto for Marcus Holloway, the young hero from the upcoming open-world action game Watch Dogs 2 (coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on November 15). Unlike his revenge-seeking predecessor from the first game, Holloway looks like he’s having the time of his life.
Steep combines Ubisoft’s risk-taking and open-world big-budget design
Ubisoft is taking a risk with one of its newest blockbuster console properties, and it can do that because it spent so many years...
Sony stole the show in the battle of the E3 press events
It’s not so hard to figure out that Sony stole the show in the battle of the press conferences at the Electronic Entertainment Expo...
Grow Up is all about helping a cute robot go to the moon
B.U.D. isn’t a baby anymore. The blocky robot is ready to leave its world and explore the moon. At Ubisoft’s press briefing today ahead...
Watch Dogs is going to become a movie
Ubisoft and Sony revealed during the French publisher’s Electronic Entertainment Expo today in Los Angeles that the Watch Dogs open-world hacking-game series will become a...