Ubisoft unveils Starlink video game with toys that attach to your controller

Ubisoft is coming a little late to the toy-game hybrid craze started by Activision’s Skylanders in 2011. But the French video game publisher has something we haven’t seen before with Starlink: Battle for Atlas, a science fiction game where you attach a toy to a game controller and play the game on a console.

It’s another example of original and strange thinking at Ubisoft, which prides itself on creating new intellectual properties. The game is a project of Ubisoft Toronto, said Matt Rose, producer of the game. With Starlink, you attach a toy pilot and spaceship to the top of a game controller. Then you can change the parts on the spaceship, and those changes show up in the game on the fly. It’s like being a kid again.