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PlayStation Plus Subscribers Get Free Far Cry 2 and Other Goodies in February

Sony has just unveiled the content release schedule for PlayStation Plus subscribers from North America, showcasing what they’ll receive throughout the month of February, including things like free games, major discounts and exclusive access to demos. The last few months have been really good to PlayStation Pl...

2 February 2012
14:31 GMT

Far Cry 3's Open World Ten Times Bigger than Far Cry 2

Ubisoft announced Far Cry 3 at last month's E3 2011 conference and has now confirmed that the open world that can be explored in the new title will be ten times bigger than what we were able to see in the previous titles, including Far Cry 2 or the original game. The Far Cry series made a name for itself by o...

7 July 2011
17:21 GMT

Far Cry 2 Developer Clint Hocking Moves to LucasArts

It seems that Clint Hocking, the man who was behind the development of Far Cry 2, has moved to developer LucasArts. The company confirmed the news after a Ubisoft employed community developer posted a Twitter message about the move. It's not clear what Clint Hocking would be working on at his new development hom...

9 August 2010
16:31 GMT

Far Cry 2 Creator Leaves Ubisoft Montreal Studio

Clint Hocking, best known as the man behind Far Cry 2, has announced that he is leaving the post of creative director at the Montreal development studio of publisher Ubisoft. During his time with the company, he managed to launch three big titles, Splinter Cell, the Chaos Theory sequel and Far Cry 2, with combined ov...

4 May 2010
13:01 GMT

Far Cry 2 Title Update Fixes Corrupted Saves Problem

Ubisoft has just announced that it has released a fresh title update for the Xbox 360 version of Far Cry 2, which comes with some pretty interesting fixes. Just start your gaming console and pop in the game disk and the title update will be automatically downloaded and applied. While doing that, also take a look at w...

13 May 2009
04:48 GMT

Ubisoft Unveils Good Financial Results

Ubisoft has officially presented its financial results for the fourth quarter of the 2008 financial year and for the full year and they look pretty good, despite a drop of about 5 % in the final months of the year. Year over year the sales increased by a whooping 14%, with the overall value reaching 1.5 billion dolla...

30 April 2009
14:11 GMT

Central Interference: Video Games Equal Illegal Drugs

After a horrific shooting incident in Germany, which took place in Winnenden and involved a teenager who was said to play Counter Strike and/or Far Cry 2, criticism of video games has been, as usual, on the rise. The President of the country called for a ban on violent video games and parent groups have also said tha...

7 April 2009
03:33 GMT

Central Interference: German President Backs Videogame Ban

Following the shooting in Germany, which claimed the lives of several children and that of the gunman himself, a lot of voices have been clamoring for imposing a ban on the sales of videogames, which are seen as the catalyst in the transformation of a misunderstood teenager into a killer.Initial reports related ...

26 March 2009
14:31 GMT

Game Developers Choice Nominations Dominated by LittleBigPlanet

The Game Developers Choice Awards are especially sought after by game developers because of their prestige. The wards are not given based on sales or on popularity but rather on the opinions of those who are directly involved in the creation of games. And LittleBigPlanet seems to be the big winner of the nomination s...

10 February 2009
16:51 GMT

Far Cry 2 Gets Hardcore Mode

The Far Cry series, as it has recently seen its second installment, has been one of Ubisoft's most precious projects for quite some time. The first title, although filled with clichés and a story that didn't really get players involved in the game, stunned a lot of gamers and industry analysts with i...

9 February 2009
15:11 GMT

Mr. Game Designer, Break Down That Door

I played two games in the last two days dealing very differently with the most basic of game props: doors that players can move through. In Mirror's Edge on the PC, the character, Faith, runs and as such cannot afford to slow down in order to put her hand on a knob in order to turn it. She hits the door with eit...

31 January 2009
00:01 GMT

Steam Users Subject to Phishing Scheme

The gaming industry has rarely been the victim of Internet frauds but it seems that with the increase of popularity for online digital content distribution networks, like Steam or GameTap, hackers have begun exploiting the users of such websites by luring them in with fake promises in order to make them divulge their...

27 January 2009
11:01 GMT

Ubisoft Announces Good Financial Results

Ubisoft has reported strong sales numbers for the third fiscal quarter of 2008, which ended on December 31, 2008. The French publisher revealed having reached sales of 508 million Euros, which is quite a bit better than it expected when it announced its estimations for this quarter. Compared to the same period of 200...

23 January 2009
12:11 GMT

Square Enix Partners with Ubisoft

The gaming industry is slowly but surely becoming more and more globalized, as companies are starting to manifest their influence and extend their networks across the whole world. Such is the case with Japanese game publisher Square Enix, most famous for the hugely successful Final Fantasy RPG (Role Playing Game) fra...

14 January 2009
02:30 GMT

Shooter of the Year: Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 is a game that makes you part of a war you never intended to fight, shows you how people can die around you, makes you feel helpless and very powerful at the same time, allows you to have tactical flexibility while making you do more stuff with your own hands than any game until now. It’s a shooter ai...

29 December 2008
19:01 GMT

Prince of Persia Is Very Important to Ubisoft

The recently released new Prince of Persia, which marks the series’ leaving the familiar Sands of Time setting, could be one of the most important videogames in the history of Ubisoft.Alain Martinez, who is the Chief Financial Officer of Ubisoft, stated, at the UBS Annual Global Media Conference, that Prince of...

11 December 2008
04:22 GMT

Intel Gives Away Two Far Cry 2 Missions

Far Cry 2 is a very good game, and this is a statement that’s also been backed up by our review of the title. It brought a whole new shooter experience to a pretty saturated genre and took realism to new heights. From the fact that your weapons would wear out as you used them to the fact that you needed to fix ...

10 December 2008
13:01 GMT

Wishlist: Far Cry 2.5

I've been under the spell of Far Cry 2 lately. After having played it on the Xbox 360 to see how the control element felt, I switched to the PC and I am currently in the process of listening to the creepy communications tower voice in order to assassinate everyone I can. But I've been thinking that the game...

2 December 2008
20:01 GMT

Far Cry 2 Gets New Goodies via DLC

Far Cry 2 is a great game, we have written a very positive review for it, and the title will ensure a great experience for any sandbox shooter fan out there. From the gorgeous graphics to the new level of realism employed in the gameplay, a lot of the game's features will have an impact on you, especially the fi...

28 November 2008
11:01 GMT

Ubisoft Talks About the Fire in Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 was a very good game that offered players quite a lot of interesting features, never employed in any other titles, and which took realism to new heights in game design. From the weapons that begin to jam if you use them too much, to the fact that you need to fix your car in order to keep it running, everyth...

24 November 2008
03:04 GMT

Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 was one of the most expected games this holiday season, promising to bring back the same great shooter experience as well as the fabulous graphics and highly detailed world of the first title. Ubisoft heavily marketed this game and said that it would completely change the way players looked at other shooter...

18 November 2008
06:14 GMT

Impressions: Far Cry 2 on the Xbox 360

I am basically a PC gamer. I tolerate consoles, especially now that most developers are releasing their best titles on them, but in my mind the mouse and keyboard setup cannot be replaced by a controller, no matter how well configured it is and how much motion tracking it incorporates. So I usually dread playing shoo...

14 November 2008
20:31 GMT

One Hour With: Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 was one of the most expected titles lately, largely due to the fact that it was the spiritual successor of one of the most popular shooters published by Ubisoft, Far Cry. The game isn't a true sequel, as the characters have changed – no more ex-marine dressed in a Hawaiian shirt – the setti...

12 November 2008
15:11 GMT

Far Cry 2 Sells More than One Million

Ubisoft announces that Far Cry 2 has broken through the one million sales barrier less than three weeks after the game was released worldwide. The game is available for the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 and Ubisoft is now willing to say which platform generated the most sales, even though we're willing ...

12 November 2008
05:25 GMT

United Kingdom is Wii Fit

The United Kingdom weekly videogame sales chart is dominated, somewhat surprisingly, by Wii Fit. In a week when titles like Fallout 3 and Red Alert 3 were available to players, the fitness oriented release from Nintendo has managed to top the chart, having its third best week of its lifetime in the United Kingdom.Wii...

7 November 2008
12:41 GMT

The First Patch for Far Cry 2 Has Been Launched

Far Cry 2 is one of the most expected games this year, being the successor to one of the most breath taking games in the pretty big portfolio of French company Ubisoft. Although the first game was developed by CryTek, which have recently launched the Crysis series, this second Far Cry title was developed by the team ...

6 November 2008
12:01 GMT

Fable II Dominates the United Kingdom

During the week ending on October 26, the United Kingdom videogames market was dominated by two sequels. Fable II, from Peter Molyneux and Lionhead, which is published by Microsoft, comfortably settled in the top spot and is followed by Far Cry 2, developed and published by Ubisoft.  Following the sequels are ot...

31 October 2008
13:51 GMT

Ubisoft Unveils Financial Results

Ubisoft reports having registered better than expected results in the second quarter of 2008, mainly as Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway did well and because it owns the distribution rights of Soulcalibur IV in Europe.Sales increased more than 31% over the last year, going up to 344 million Euros when the whole ...

27 October 2008
01:02 GMT

Analyze That: No Recession for Videogames Market

A quick glance at the NPD data for the United States related to the month of September showed a picture that seemed gloomy to most people. After all, sales of videogame related hardware went down and big releases like Madden NFL and Mercenaries 2 failed to become blockbusters.  But the analysts who watch the vid...

20 October 2008
15:21 GMT

Here Are the Details on Far Cry 2 DRM for the PC

As you all know, DRM, or Digital Rights Management, is one of the most talked about subjects these days. With the whole scandal surrounding SecuROM, the DRM system employed by Electronic Arts on its games, like Spore or Crysis: Warhead, other gaming companies are sharing the DRM restrictions that will come with their...

16 October 2008
03:22 GMT

Wishlist: Sarcastic Shooter

Take a look at the line up of action and first person shooter videogames which are coming up in the next few months. We have Gears of War 2, which tells the, apparently, more mature and well thought story of the way humans are striking back against the Locusts. We have Far Cry 2 which is set to tell the gritty story...

14 October 2008
22:01 GMT

Ubisoft Prepares Massive Ads Campaign

Ubisoft is ready to launch a very strong holiday line up with games such as Far Cry 2, Prince of Persia, Shawn White Snowboarding and EndWar will be out from now till Christmas. In order to gain a competitive advantage over the other big publishers, Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard, the France-b...

13 October 2008
12:01 GMT

Far Cry 2 Developer Details Multiplayer

Louis-Pierre Pharand, who is a producer on Far Cry 2, talked to Eurogamer and its readers and revealed that the game would have four distinct multiplayer modes. The now classic options of Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch will be in the game, with the entire 50 square kilometers of the world or just a portion of it ava...

23 September 2008
21:31 GMT

Far Cry 2 Release Date Set

It's going to be a bumpy ride going into the fall release schedule. Ubisoft has finally revealed a clear release date for its upcoming shooter frenzy called Far Cry 2 and the game is set to debut in close proximity to other eagerly waited titles like Dead Space, Resistance 2 and Fallout 3. The new Ubisoft shoote...

8 September 2008
18:01 GMT

Pre-Order Far Cry 2 and Get the Original Game for Free

If you live in the United States, Canada or Mexico and you plan on pre-ordering Far Cry 2 then it's about time to rejoice. Upon ordering you will be able to also get and then play the original game, which Ubisoft holds the rights to. The original Far Cry After puts the player in the shoes of Jack Carver, a...

3 September 2008
03:55 GMT

Ubisoft Shares Jump to Record Values

Following yesterday's announcement that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 broke the 2 million sales barrier in less than two weeks since release, Ubisoft shares have jumped in trading in Paris by around 10%. Investors seemed very eager to capitalize on the prospect of higher than expected profits in 2008 and...

2 April 2008
02:24 GMT

Far Cry 2 Release Date Narrowed Down

And the teasing never stops. Some game publishers are really fine tunning the art of dropping a date here, a new feature there, a new character name over there, while only serving their deep desire to make gamers so excited about an upcoming game that they begin counting the days until release. And then, the hours. A...

27 March 2008
17:06 GMT

Far Cry 2 for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3

As we were guessing yesterday, Ubisoft's delay of three major titles wasn't announced just because they wanted to annoy some people. They actually had some plans. Their plans regarding the sequel to Far Cry are quite nice: they will release the game for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 gaming consoles, too. Now.....

4 January 2008
02:26 GMT

Ubisoft Delays Three Key Titles

When the big companies want to maximize their profits and record some impressive results, they don't really seem to think about those who actually make them have these great profits: us, the gamers. Having said this, here is the news: Far Cry 2, Tom Clancy's EndWar and Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway ...

3 January 2008
05:00 GMT

Crysis Requirements (PC)

Crysis is an upcoming science fiction first-person shooter computer game that is currently in development by German developer Crytek. As with Far Cry, Crysis will be an open-ended game with many ways to meet objectives. An addition to the previous Far Cry formula is that any weapon may be modified with devices such ...

22 August 2007
09:36 GMT

Confirmed - Far Cry 2 on the Way!

Let's keep it short and simple for everyone to know this is no joke. Today, Crytek has confirmed Far Cry 2. They've set up a teaser website, which unfortunately doesn't say anything more than "Far Cry 2." As you can imagine, loads of details will be revealed soon, as 1UP.com reports..."the official unv...

20 July 2007
05:59 GMT


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