Author: Garry Smith
New comments by Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot suggest the publisher will be adopting the increasingly industry standard $70 USD price point for its “big AAA” titles in the future. It’s a price point that’s already been adopted by many publishers – including the likes of Sony, Take-Two, Activision Blizzard, and Gearbox – on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, but Ubisoft, for its part, insisted it had “not made any decision yet” when asked about bumping its prices up during an investor call last year. However, it seemed like the publisher might finally have made its mind up when, back…
Bonnie Ross, the founder and head of Halo developer 343 Industries, has announced her departure from the studio and Microsoft. Ross, who also serves as Microsoft corporate vice president, has been the head of 343 Industries for 15 years, having established the studio – specifically to take over development of the Halo franchise from Bungie – back in 2007. Announcing her departure from 343 in a statement shared on Twitter, Ross explained, “While I had hoped to stay with Halo until we released the Winter Update, I am letting you know I will be leaving 343 and attending a family…
Are you coming to EGX London in a couple of weeks? If you are, what are you doing on the Friday and Saturday evenings? Nothing? Oh that’s wonderful because I’d like to invite you to a pub quiz!Well it’s not actually in a pub so I’m telling a bit of a fib – it’s at EGX in the ExCel Centre, on the live stage. All you have to do is turn up and you can use your mobile phone to join in. How fancy is that? No annoying sheets of paper to faff around with, no passing answers to the…
Splatoon 3 has had a hugely successful launch in Japan, with the highest domestic sales for any Switch game in the first three days. Since launching on Friday, the game has sold 3.45m copies in Japan both physically and digitally. It proves how popular the game is in Nintendo’s home market and how important the Splatoon IP is, outselling even Animal Crossing: New Horizons which had the previous best launch in Japan. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
Halfway through playing Cult of the Lamb I found myself engaged in a neat little dice-battling game. It was a mini-game, I guess, but it was so nicely handled, so rich in strategy and the suggestion of depth, that it felt like it could well have been spun off as a game in its own right. Call it the Gwent Impulse: inside this perfectly good game, here’s a smaller, also perfectly good game, seemingly included out of sheer generosity. Since then I have been very lucky with regards to the Gwent Impulse. Is this a trend? I hope so. When…
The next instalment in the Just Dance series was unveiled as part of this evening’s Ubisoft Forward.In a first for the series, online multiplayer will be included on Just Dance 2023’s release, along with a new art direction, user interface and a host of colourful characters.You can have a closer look at Just Dance 2023 in the trailer below. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
In tonight’s flurry of announcements surrounding the future of Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft has announced the series’ first open-world game for mobile devices. It’s currently named Assassin’s Creed: Codename Jade, and is described as “coming soon”. Jade will be set in ancient China, and let you parkour all over the country’s Great Wall as a player-created character. (So, no, you’re not playing as fan-favourite Shao Jun. But perhaps she’ll appear?) Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
Ubisoft has laid down a roadmap for the future of Assassin’s Creed, featuring two major new games coming beyond 2023’s Baghdad-set Mirage. Set in feudal Japan, Assassin’s Creed: Project Red will arrive at some point after 2023. It’s described as an open-world RPG, a chance for fans to live out their powerful shinobi fantasy, and is in development by the talented Quebec-based team behind Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Sometime after that, Assassin’s Creed: Project Hexe will be next to launch. Details are extremely thin, but it looks to be a mysterious, witchcraft-inspired entry, and is being worked on by the Valhalla…
A pair of fans have designed custom skins for PS5 to celebrate God of War Ragnarök. Anderson and Débora, a couple of artists who regularly create tributes to their favourite video games, posted pictures of the skins placed onto a console earlier this week on Instagram. The designs will be sold worldwide via their storefront called Gom.Gom.Figures. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
EGX is just around the corner, and as a small bonus to all supporters of Eurogamer we’re offering free upgrades to an early access ticket for the show. You can find a code to claim on your ReedPop ID page, and if you’ve already bought a ticket and want to take advantage of the free early access upgrade get in touch and we’ll sort you with a refund for your original purchase. There’s some decent games to check out, though if I’m honest I’ll mostly be hanging around the Street Fighter 6 booths – plus some fun live shows, with…