Our latest coverage of Skull and Bones.
It’s been an extremely long journey, but Skull and Bones is finally in the home stretch to its official launch as it kicks off open beta testing on PC, the final playtest before the co-op open-world pirate game’s official launch next week. Since Skull and Bones was first announced at E3 2017, it’s been delayed at least seven times in [...]
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Ubisoft continues to churn out Skull and Bones teaser trailers ahead of its impending launch next weekend. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gotten a brief look at the multiplayer pirate game’s high-level content and a few snippets of its general gameplay. Today, we get to see what the starting experience will look like courtesy of The Fast and The [...]
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Skull and Bones will be opening its doors to everyone in just a few days with a free four-day open beta test and Ubisoft is getting the hype train rolling with a preview blog and a new trailer. The beta test will run from February 7 to February 11 on both PC and consoles with cross-play and cross-progression support between [...]
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Ubisoft dropped a new dev blog that offers firsthand accounts of Skull and Bones’ endgame content, penned by its very own writer and editor Brittany Spurlin. While we expect there to be some bias in her tales of life on the high seas, it does give readers a good idea of what the multiplayer pirate game has in store for [...]
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Ubisoft is gearing up for Skull and Bones’ highly awaited and long-delayed launch with an open beta weekend next month. The playtest will run from February 8-11 and will be open to everyone on all platforms, with full cross-play and cross-progression between PC and console versions. If getting to try the game ahead of its launch isn’t incentive enough, Ubisoft [...]
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Ubisoft is keeping Skull and Bones fans entertained by diving into the history books to share accounts of some of the most notorious pirates that prowled the Indian Ocean during the Golden Age of Piracy. The new season of Ubisoft’s Echoes of History podcast shifts its focus from Assassin’s Creed to Skull and Bones with a new series called Gangsters [...]
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Ubisoft is trumpeting a successful Skull and Bones closed beta test with hundreds of thousands of players and over 3 million ships setting sail during the three-day playtest last month. Testers also apparently milked the six-hour time limit for all its worth, collectively sailing a total of 7 million kilometers all across the 17th century African coast. “I just wanted [...]
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Skull and Bones has unfurled its sails for a limited time as it kicks off its second closed beta test with full cross-play support between PC (via Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Connec), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Those who were tapped to participate in the test also received two extra keys so they can engage in various pirate [...]
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Skull and Bones will be setting sail once again for a limited time as the multiplayer pirate game’s servers reopen for its second closed beta test from December 14-18. The playtest will be open to selected players via the Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Connect, as well as PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S users. Ubisoft, however, will be limiting [...]
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Ubisoft has announced another launch date for Skull and Bones at The Game Awards 2023. As rumored, the seemingly perpetually delayed pirate MMORPG is now scheduled to launch on February 16, 2024. Skull and Bones has now been delayed seven times since it was first unveiled at E3 2017 and the hype has all but died down, especially following the [...]
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