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A representative for publisher Ubisoft has disclosed tracking data showing that about 60 percent of players who have bought Assassin's Creed II have not finished the single player narrative, even though some gamers have protested when the game launched that the experience felt too short.The data comes from the U... |
21 October 2010
16:41 GMT |
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Ubisoft's Assassin’s Creed II: Digital Deluxe Edition for Mac OS X is now available as an exclusive pre-order from Macgamestore, bringing an epic story of vengeance in Renaissance Italy, as well as three bonus maps to explore.Ubisoft promotes the follow-up to the title with a new hero, Ezio Auditore da Fir... |
24 September 2010
10:12 GMT |
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During the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June, Ubisoft announced that the Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer beta would take place only on the PlayStation 3. More details about this recently have been made available by the company. Apparently, only North American customers who pre-order the PlayStation... |
6 August 2010
03:34 GMT |
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The OnLive service launched in the United States last week and the company has now offered a closer look at the pricing scheme that it has implemented. Players are able to rent games for three or five days, or purchase them until the 17th of June, 2013. To have access to these purchases, one has to maintain their sub... |
22 June 2010
17:21 GMT |
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There are many ways to promote a product, either through the publishing of promising benchmarks, extensive advertising, using a strong brand or simply by optimizing a piece of hardware until there is nothing that can stand against it. Other times, it helps to join the device with a certain other product that is just ... |
27 May 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: This weekend I plan to spend some time with racing games, see if anything changed in a significant manner since Need for Speed: Porsche (the best of the series, in my humble opinion) launched. For a more animated and playful experience, I will try out ModNation Racers from Sony, a game which seems ... |
21 May 2010
18:31 GMT |
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It seems that the worldwide economic downturn has hit French publisher Ubisoft particularly hard, leading to a big drop in overall sales, to about 1.08 billion dollars, with the overall loss standing at 53 million. The company is saying that it aims to return to profitability during the current fiscal year, which sta... |
20 May 2010
01:53 GMT |
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A warez scene release group called SKiD ROW has managed to subvert Ubisoft's controversial always-on DRM control. The crackers thank the major game publisher for the challenge and advise it to focus on games from now on instead of invasive copy-protection solutions. In January, Ubisoft, one of the largest c... |
28 April 2010
11:35 GMT |
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Will Ubisoft continue to push its new Digital Rights Management scheme for future titles? Despite the fact that there have been some problems with the titles using it until now, the French publisher seems determined to make sure pirates do not touch its upcoming line-up so the new system is here to stay, although wit... |
14 April 2010
07:38 GMT |
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It's the end of another gaming week and we've got the most important news of the last seven days listed a little bit farther in the article. While scrolling down, you can also take a look at the Napoleon: Total War game diary, showing off how I dealt with the most important battles of his career, or you can... |
14 March 2010
07:51 GMT |
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We reported yesterday that on Sunday, players got a taste of what the new Digital Rights Management solution created by Ubisoft, set to be included in all future releases, could do when one of its components malfunctioned. The official Ubisoft servers were down for quite some time and because the authentication proce... |
9 March 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Since Ubisoft announced that it was planning to require a constant Internet connection for all those interested in picking up its upcoming title on the PC, players have been wondering about what would happen if the servers the French publisher used for authentication would go down all of the sudden.Players found out ... |
8 March 2010
06:08 GMT |
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A lot has been said about the new DRM measures that Ubisoft is testing and plans to implement for most of its future titles. The always on Internet connection and the save games that get put in the cloud have turned off quite a lot of the PC gamers whom the measures are supposed to target and it seems that one very r... |
26 February 2010
13:51 GMT |
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There are two approaches to eliminating piracy and second hand sales being tested these days and that might influence the way videogaming evolves in the coming years. The approaches are somewhat conflicting, although the objectives in themselves are not the same.Ubisoft's is the more ambitious of the two. The Fr... |
20 February 2010
11:21 GMT |
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Ubisoft is announcing that it has released the second downloadable content pack for Assassin's Creed II, its action adventure title outed in 2009. We've known for some time that this pack will be called Bonfire of Vanities but only now has the publisher unveiled the adventures Ezio is set to undertake when ... |
18 February 2010
05:27 GMT |
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Ubisoft has announced its DRM plans for the PC version of Assassin's Creed II, but no one expected things to be this bad. We just hoped that, if we blinked really, really hard and snapped our fingers, we'd wake up and it would have all been just a bad dream. But reality is usually worse than what our nightm... |
18 February 2010
04:19 GMT |
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French publisher Ubisoft has announced a decrease in sales for the quarter, which encompasses the October - December 2009 period, despite the huge success of Assassin's Creed II that managed to move more than 8 million units to gamers. The company generated sales of about 678.9 million dollars, which is 2.7... |
12 February 2010
02:53 GMT |
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Ubisoft has confirmed that it will be offering multiplayer assassinations in the next videogame in the Assassin's Creed series, which is set to arrive this year and will keep Ezio as the main protagonist, after his very good performance in the second game in the series.In an investor conference that took place a... |
10 February 2010
05:00 GMT |
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Ubisoft has confirmed that those who will buy the first downloadable content pack for Assassin's Creed II on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft or on the PlayStation 3 from Sony will not be able to get any new Achievements or Trophies from playing it.The package will cost 320 Microsoft Points or 4 dollars. The Battle o... |
28 January 2010
03:40 GMT |
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Ubisoft has announced that it plans to release the PC version of Assassin's Creed II on March 16 and also offered the minimal and the optimum hardware configurations needed to play the game. Assassin's Creed II was launched on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony on November 17.Ubisof... |
26 January 2010
05:06 GMT |
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Climb to the top of the highest cathedral, take a look around and then jump. Sneak up on the most guarded men in history and slash their throats open with the blades you keep hidden in your arms.Move around the city like a shadow, bleeding in to throw off your pursuers or take them on before fleeing to the rooftops a... |
22 January 2010
09:11 GMT |
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The Avatar movie, which marks James Cameron's return to the director chair of a commercial release following the launch of Titanic, is doing very well, selling close to 500 million dollars worth of tickets in the United States and more than a billion worldwide.The game also picked up some Golden Globe awards and... |
19 January 2010
16:41 GMT |
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When Assassin's Creed came out, it obviously had a chunk missing. Ezio's memories marked as 12 and 13 were locked, and there was no in-game achievement or trick that would grant access to them. The thought that instantly struck everyone was that these were to become available at a later date as a priced DLC... |
23 December 2009
05:38 GMT |
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In a relatively short period of time, Ubisoft has managed to present itself as a capable developer and producer, generating a lot of successful games and lengthy franchises. And one thing it's especially proud of, and proud enough to plaster this as an intro message on some of its titles, is that Ubisoft games a... |
23 December 2009
04:57 GMT |
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While Assassin's Creed II isn't available for the PC yet, and it won't be either until March 16 next year, console gamers are up to their knees in Italian assassinations, but not in the La Piovra way. Not only that, but there are also two new DLCs in the works for the game, and they'll only be ava... |
17 December 2009
04:03 GMT |
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The first trailer for the Prince of Persia movie was released not so long ago, and it seems like it made an impression. With the estimated budget of $150 million and the success of the last collaboration between Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney that gave birth to the Pirates of the Caribbean blockbuster, the Prince of Pe... |
13 November 2009
04:04 GMT |
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It seems that Ubisoft has a hit on its hands with Assassin's Creed II if current pre-order levels are to be believed. Mike Hickey, who is an analyst watching the videogame market for Janco Partners, has notified investors that the sequel is estimated to have between 10 and 20% more gamers interested in paying fo... |
3 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Ubisoft is said to have improved a lot of things for Assassin's Creed 2, from the way the protagonist moves around the city to the way combat works, but it also seems to be interested in pushing against the boundaries of what kind of content is acceptable in videogames.Game director Benoit Lambert has recently s... |
1 October 2009
17:41 GMT |
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With the Tokyo Game Show wrapped up, the CESA, which organizes the event, also handed out the Japan Game Awards, which have the distinction of honoring both older releases judged to be the most impressive and future titles judged to have the potential for greatness.In the Game of the Year competition, only videogames... |
30 September 2009
02:40 GMT |
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