How Ubisoft game designer wants you to learn swordfighting in For Honor
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...
Hands-on with Ubisoft’s The Crew: Calling All Units
Ubisoft showed off the new downloadable content (DLC) for its open world driving game, The Crew. In this case, your job is to try...
Hands-on with co-op and single-player in the hacker’s world of Watch Dogs 2
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...
South Park: The Fractured But Whole mocks VR with fart-emitting device
“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...
AMD’s Roy Taylor on how VR will change entertainment
Roy Taylor works as corporate vice president of alliances at Advanced Micro Devices, a chip maker that creates processors and graphics chips for personal...
Just Sing is Ubisoft’s newest music game, and it uses your phone as a mic
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...
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...