Ubisoft partners with Parsec to make remote demos possible

Summer is usually a time for video game companies to demo their upcoming projects for the press, influencers, and other folks. The pandemic has made that difficult this year, but Ubisoft has found a way to get people trying their games from home without the need to download them.

Ubisoft is partnering with Parsec, which uses streaming technology to provide access to remote computers. For Ubisoft’s purposes, this means that anyone from anywhere can use Parsec to play a demo of a game installed on an Ubisoft PC. That’s just what the publisher did recently for two of its biggest holiday releases, Watch Dogs: Legion and Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, which it showed off today during its Forward online event.