Neowin News Feed for: Ubisoft

More Xbox One games confirmed, including Ryse

John Callaham — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:38:26 +0100

More games have now been confirmed to be coming to Microsoft's Xbox One game console, including Ryse, a game that was first announced for the Xbox 360 console three years ago. Read more...

Kaspersky Lab to offer feedback on hacking to Watch Dogs dev team

John Callaham — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:26:10 +0100

Ubisoft's upcoming action game Watch Dogs has hacking as one of its major features and the development team is receiving some feedback on hacking from security firm Kaspersky Lab. Read more...

Ubisoft's Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed 4 outed briefly for "X720"

John Callaham — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:38:39 +0100

Two Ubisoft employees briefly had their LinkedIn pages listing "X720" versions of Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed 4 before they were removed, a sign both games are coming to Microsoft's next Xbox. Read more...

More info revealed on Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag

John Callaham — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:18:28 +0000

More information has been revealed on Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, the upcoming and latest game in the long running Ubisoft historical action-adventure series. Read more...

Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag revealed

John Callaham — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:54:41 +0000

Ubisoft has announced it will release Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, a pirate-themed new addition to the best selling action game series, with more details coming on Monday. Read more...

Ubisoft says it wants to make friends again with PC gamers

John Callaham — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:43:12 +0000

An Ubisoft executive has now said the publisher "seeking to improve" its current relationship with PC gamers after ditching its "always on" Internet setup for its PC games. Read more...

Shootmania Storm to be launched January 23rd

John Callaham — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 04:30:59 +0000

Developer Nadeo and publisher Ubisoft have announced that the PC exclusive eSports themed first person shooter Shootmania Store will officially launch January 23rd. Read more...

Official Far Cry 3 Minecraft mod released

John Callaham — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:30:39 +0000

Ubisoft has released an official mod for the hit sandbox game Minecraft that's designed to be a promotion for the upcoming first person shooter Far Cry 3. Read more...

Ubisoft forgets to ship activation keys with Rocksmith

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:22:09 +0100

Ubsioft has made yet another stuff-up when it comes to a PC release, seemingly forgetting to include activation keys in some copies of Rocksmith. Naturally, this annoyed a fair few customers. Read more...

Assassin's Creed III PC minimal hardware specs announced

John Callaham — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:54:53 +0100

Ubisoft has announced the minimal hardware requirements that a PC must have to run its upcoming action-adventure sequel Assassin's Creed 3 when it launches later this fall. Read more...

Far Cry 3 PC gets official hardware specs

John Callaham — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:18:17 +0100

Ubisoft has released the minimal, recommended and high performance PC hardware specs to run their upcoming first person shooter sequel Far Cry 3, due out in early December. Read more...

Ubisoft might open UPlay to third party PC games

John Callaham — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:16:09 +0100

Ubisoft might be open to allowing its newly revamped UPlay PC game download service to distribute other third part PC games similar to Valve's Steam and EA's Origin service. Read more...

Ubisoft finally dumps "always on" DRM for PC games

John Callaham — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:53:10 +0100

Ubisoft has now announced it is finally getting rid of its "always on" Internet connection policy for its PC games, which has upset most PC gamers since the publisher put that policy into effect. Read more...

Brothers In Arms Furious 4 getting new name

John Callaham — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:29:13 +0100

Gearbox Software has confirmed that their previously announced WWII shooter Brothers In Arms Furious 4 will in fact get a new name and be quite a bit different than its previous incarnation. Read more...

Ubisoft CEO: PC games have a 93-95 percent piracy rate

John Callaham — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:25:25 +0100

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has said that it has encountered a piracy rate for PC games that's between 93 and 95 percent and that's part of the reason behind their push for free-to-play PC games. Read more...

Ubisoft revamps Uplay PC; offers $1 games this weekend

John Callaham — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:07:32 +0100

Ubisoft has launched a new version of its Uplay online service for PC games, offering a downloadable client to purchase and download their library of PC game titles. Read more...

Ghost Recon Online open beta begins

John Callaham — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:55:01 +0100

Ubisoft has now launched the open beta test for Ghost Recon Online, the long awaited PC based free-to-play version of the near future military shooter game series. Read more...

Ubisoft fixes security issue in Uplay system

John Callaham — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:14:36 +0100

Ubisoft has said it has launched an update to its Uplay DRM PC game application that fixes a security flaw that was discovered and announced today by a Google security engineer. Read more...

Assassin's Creed III PC delay confirmed

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 03:03:22 +0100

Today it has been confirmed by Ubisoft that the PC version of Assassin's Creed III has been delayed, with the release tentatively slated for before Christmas and near the console release date Read more...

Assassin's Creed III gets "Rise" live action trailer

John Callaham — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 01:43:04 +0100

Ubisoft has posted up a live action trailer for Assassin's Creed III for the the US Independence Day holiday, showing slow-motions scenes of US colonists talking about the British redcoats. Read more...