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Ubisoft unveils Uplay+ subscription PC gaming service

Ubisoft announced it is launching a subscription gaming service on September 3 called Uplay+. It will charge $15 a month and will debut the service with more than 100 downloadable PC games in North America and Europe.

The French video game giant with 16,000 employees is the latest to try a game subscription service. Brenda Panagrossi, vice president of platform and product management at Ubisoft, said in an interview that the service will also be available with Google Stadia in 2020. She did not explain exactly how that would work.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.