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Ubisoft is once again in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons after it revoked all digital licenses for The Crew following the multiplayer racing game’s closure two weeks ago. Anyone who owned the game through Ubisoft Connect will no longer be able to access it, shattering fan hopes of an unofficial revival at some point in the future. Since [...]
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Ubisoft is set to end support for another batch of aging online multiplayer titles early next year. The French publisher will be decommissioning ten more games across multiple platforms on January 25th, 2024, including several older Assassin’s Creed games, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Heroes of Might and Magic VI, and Splinter Cell: Conviction, among others. Meanwhile, Electronic Arts will also [...]
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The mistakes of the past have come back to haunt Ubisoft when French authorities moved against those who were accused of sexual misconduct back in 2020. According to French newspaper Libération, the police picked up five former Ubisoft employees and a former executive earlier this week and detained them for questioning for 24 hours. Among those who were detained were [...]
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Ubisoft Montreal developers faced a terrifying ordeal in 2020 when their office building became the target of a form of harassment commonly employed by the online gaming community known as “swatting.” Police stormed the publisher’s office upon receiving a fake call about a hostage threat, prompting a lengthy police search and leaving frightened employees to barricade themselves on the building's [...]
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Ubisoft's first foray into NFTs with Ghost Recon: Breakpoint was a colossal failure, but it seems they just can't resist another shot at the NFT game. This time, they're bringing the controversial technology to the beloved Assassin's Creed franchise. Brace yourselves for "smart collectibles" dubbed as "digital souls," which can be personalized with outfits, weapons, and poses. And here's the [...]
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Ubisoft continues to bring back its games to Steam as the French publisher announces that four more games scheduled for release on the platform this summer: Far Cry 6, Rainbow Six Extraction, Riders Republic, and Monopoly Madness. Here are the Steam release dates for the said games: Far Cry 6 – May 11 Riders Republic – June 8 Rainbow Six [...]
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Ubisoft Paris has come under fire several times over the past few years following complaints of “institutional” sexual harassment within its walls. Now, the studio is once again in the limelight after the French game worker union Solidaire Informatique accused its top brass of crunch culture and mismanagement during the time that the studio was working on Just Dance 2023. [...]
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Ubisoft has brought its mighty banhammer down on thousands of accounts for abusing an unrevealed exploit involving multiple titles. The studio is tight-lipped about the nature of the exploit but nearly 19,000 accounts have reportedly been caught in the massive banwave. “Recently we have identified accounts making use of a fraudulent exploit within our titles,” tweeted Ubisoft. “Ubisoft has a [...]
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The past couple of months have been rough on Ubisoft as the company reports a massive drop in its net bookings for the third quarter of its 2022-2023 fiscal year. While the company was able to accrue a total of €1.5 billion in year-to-date sales, its net bookings for back catalog games over the same period fell by 27%, or [...]
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Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo might not be showing up at E3 this year but that doesn’t mean that there won’t be a big-name publisher attending the event. Ubisoft announced that it will attending the gaming convention if it pushes through. “If E3 happens, we will be there and we will have a lot of things to show,” said Ubisoft CEO [...]
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