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Ubisoft has announced that it has ended online services for 90 of its older games, including Assassin’s Creed 2, the original Far Cry, and a number of Just Dance titles.All of the titles featured on the list that will be losing online services are older Ubisoft games and are not necessarily across every platform. Assassin’s Creed 2 is specifically losing online services on PC, Mac, iOS, and OnLive – whereas Far Cry will only be losing them on PC.The official statement on the page reads, “The online multiplayer services for the titles listed below have now been shut down. The offline features for each game remain available”.

Ubisoft has officially revealed a new third-person shooter, currently codenamed Project Q, after gameplay leaked online.After a lengthy amount of gameplay was leaked of Project Q, Ubisoft has officially announced the new title on Twitter. “So, we heard you heard…” wrote Ubisoft on Twitter, acknowledging the gameplay leak.

Rainbow Six Siege update Y7 S1.2 is set to go live today (April 19), alongside a brand new map, balance changes, and more.Ahead of the update’s release, Ubisoft has published the patch notes detailing everything players can expect from Year 7 Season 1.

Late in 2021, Ubisoft announced it would be adding non fungible tokens (or NFTs) into the PC version of ‘Ghost Recon Breakpoint’, and while even the company’s own staff reported didn’t understand the scheme, it has not put Ubisoft off, as it seems more NFTs are coming, and will be making their way into games outside of ‘Breakpoint’.

Ubisoft is developing a new third person shooter called Pathfinder.Various sources have spoken to Exputer about Pathfinder, which could also just be a codename for the project.According to these sources, Pathfinder will be a slightly different take on the standard battle royale format. Teams of four will be dropped into a map before navigating their way through two walls that have a series of breakable and unbreakable gates that must be overcome.

Ubisoft has revealed a piece of cloud computing technology it’s developing called Ubisoft Scalar.Yesterday (March 18), Ubisoft revealed Ubisoft Scalar, a new piece of cloud computing technology that will apparently enable “the construction of gigantic game worlds at a scale far greater than anything that’s come before,” as noted in its reveal trailer. The project is being helmed by Ubisoft Stockholm, alongside an IP that it is developing using this technology.

Ubisoft is committing to The Crew 2 for at least another year, bringing a 60FPS update to Xbox Series X and PS5, as well as plenty of new content, all as part of Year 5 for the game.Community director François Roussel at Ubisoft explained in a new announcement video that “One of our main goals is to continue to deploy content for The Crew 2 and for all players.”Brand director Delphine Dosset added “Year 5 will start this July, which means that three new seasons will be deployed, and The Crew 2 still has a lot of promises to fulfil. This is why we will continue to add a lot of content to the game in upcoming months.”This new content will include new cars; new events; rewards; competitions, and more improvements.The new console update was left to Quentin Betton (live project coordinator) to explain.

Ubisoft Massive later this year, after 17 years at the studio.Ubisoft Massive is based in Sweden and is responsible for the Tom Clancy’s The Division series, the upcoming Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, and the recently announced Star Wars game.Last year Polfeldt announced he was stepping down from his managing director role but planned to return to a new position after a six-month break. However, it has now been reported that he has submitted his six-month resignation earlier this year and will be leaving the company for good.

Rainbow Six Siege receiving its seventh year of updates, a developer has answered questions about why the game has no competitors.Rainbow Six Siege is approaching the launch of Demon Veil, the first content drop of the game’s seventh year, and creative director Alex Karpazis has discussed the shooter’s long term-goals. Speaking to PCGamesN, Karpazis said that Rainbow Six Siege is “going to receive all the support it needs to be as successful as it needs to be. We have long-term ambitions”.Karpazis was also asked about the lack of competition that Siege has seen, as very few games have attempted the same formula.

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will be available to play for free next weekend, just after the game’s 1.5 update releases.The next major expansion, Dawn Of Ragnarok, will release for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on March 10, and ahead of that Ubisoft is letting players try the base game for free (via GamesRadar).Players will be able to try Assassin’s Creed Valhalla  for free between February 24 to 28.

Ubisoft has revealed what’s coming in Year 7 Season 1 (Y7S1) of Rainbow Six Siege, including a new operator called Azami, a defender who can fix damage to map environments.Announced today (February 19), Azami’s gadget is a throwable device that applies circular bulletproof cover wherever it hits. As demonstrated by Ubisoft, this allows her to patch up damage to walls, hatches and doorways that have been breached by attackers.Players can choose either a 9x19VSN submachine gun or ACS12 shotgun when playing Azami, and her loadout also includes a D-50 handgun.

Ubisoft initiatives to implement NFTs via their programme Ubisoft Quartz, employees are reportedly pushing back.In a recent report by Bloomberg, several Ubisoft employees came forward to announce their displeasure with Ubisoft’s blockchain programme Quartz. This isn’t the first time employees stood up against the NFTs, Ubisoft calls Digits.

Beyond Good And Evil 2 is still only in the pre-production stage at Ubisoft.This comes from a recent Bloomberg report that had spoken to developers on the title. In video games pre-production often refers to the planning phase, where certain concepts and ideas are being fine-tuned and outlined, although no such specifics are given in the Bloomberg article.Beyond Good And Evil 2 was announced at Ubisoft’s E3 2017 presentation five years ago, and it was said that the game would have multiple planets to explore and use a procedural generation tool in its design.It was also announced at E3 2018 that HitRecord – founded by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt – would be crowdsourcing fan work to put into the game.

Ubisoft has revealed some statistics and anti-cheat information concerning Rainbow Six Siege, including total bans over the last 18 months.The official Rainbow Six Siege Twitter account detailed everything in a thread, with ban data for the game split between BattlEye and general data bans as well. Since August 2020 it’s estimated that around 167,250 bans have taken place, or around 9,500 a month for 18 months.It’s also added that 3,114 idle bots were banned between November to January as well, with the data going right the way up to last month (January 2022).The thread also outlines that a few cheats have been permanently stopped in the last 18 months as well, like the ability to instantly kill a whole lobby, drones that crash matches, and drones that can do melee damage.We're committed to detecting and banning cheaters.

Riders Republic is getting an event later this week that will see it collaborating with Italian fashion brand Prada.Ubisoft has announced that from February 10 to February 14 Riders Republic will be free to play on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One, with the ability to pre-load now. Players who play during the free weekend will retain their progress if they choose to purchase the full game.

Ubisoft has added a memorial to Rainbow Six Siege that pays tribute to Michael ‘KiXSTAr’ Stockley, a caster and former professional Siege player who died in late 2021. As reported by the BBC (via PC Gamer), Ubisoft has added an in-game plaque to Rainbow Six Siege commemorating Stockley.Rainbow Six Siege esports director Wei Yue shared a photo of KiXSTar’s plaque in the game, and posted it alongside text that represents Tachanka, a Rainbow Six Siege operator, saluting.{-}7 pic.twitter.com/4jYhPbo7vB— Wei Yue (@Wei2Yue) January 25, 2022The plaque can be found on the Plane map, and has been placed on a spot where Stockley once killed all five members of an enemy team in just eight seconds during a competitive map.You can watch the moment that Stockley secured his eight second ace below.The Rainbow Six Siege Twitter account acknowledged the memorial by saying “our community has been forever changed thanks to KiXSTar’s work ethic and passion for [Rainbow Six Siege].

Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovations Lab which oversees NFTs, has said that NFTs are for the players “but they don’t get it for now.”Ubisoft‘s NFT programmes; Quartz and now Digits, met with backlash from developers and players alike upon their reveals. Upset over the decision was so loud that CEO Yves Guillemot held a surprise meeting in support of its launch. The company further doubled down on its decision to pursue NFTs despite a very disappointing uptake.In an interview with Finder, Pouard elaborated on Ubisoft’s NFT goals and how he believes the strategy benefits the players, but that they lack the understanding of how it will work.

While Rainbow Six Extraction's game modes allow you to take on missions on your own, the recommended experience is to get your friends involved to help you.

Ubisoft’s general data protection regulation (GDPR) policy under scrutiny.According to an investigation by PC World, a Norwegian player has had their Ubisoft account and all their games permanently deleted after less than two years of inactivity. They claim to have received just one e-mail warning of the impending deletion which was sent to their spam.Ubisoft denies the possibility of this occurring, stating that four conditions are considered before an account is eligible for deletion.

Fans have been asking for what feels like years for Ubisoft to make a new game in the ‘Splinter Cell’ series, and after what felt like teasing, by adding main character Sam Fisher to free to play and mobile experiences, the announcement people have been craving has finally happened: the company is making a new ‘Splinter Cell’ game… sort of.

Ubisoft‘s NFT program, a French trade union representing Ubisoft Paris has criticised the company’s new move.Earlier this week, the publisher revealed Ubisoft Quartz, which the company is calling the ‘first playable NFTs’ and will debut in Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

Ubisoft is really giving the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ franchise a big push at the moment, and after announcing next year’s ‘Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’ expansion and some crossover content between the main characters in that game and ‘Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’, the previous game is now free for a full weekend.

Ubisoft has unveiled a major expansion for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, with the ominously titled Dawn of Ragnarök set to arrive in March 2022.Some expansion details leaked last week (December 11), following earlier indications of its arrival being spotted in a datamine back in October.

Ubisoft has updated the details of its Splinter Cell trademark, following a report that the studio is currently working on a new mainline game for the series.As reported by VGC, the re-filed trademark changes the phrase “interactive multi-player computer games” to “providing an online computer game”.

Ubisoft has admitted that how the company handled the ongoing misconduct scandal when it arose was lacking.As reported by Axios, chief people officer at the Assassin’s Creed developer Anika Grant laid out how Ubisoft missed “the employee experience”, which led to staff losing “trust in that process” of the investigation.“At the beginning of the crisis, we spent a lot of time making sure that we had the right process in place, that we were able to very quickly and efficiently run an investigation

EXCLUSIVE: Ubisoft Film & Television announced today that it has appointed Jordan Cohen as Senior Director of European Live-Action Film and Television.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is available now for free on the Ubisoft store… and it’s free to keep.Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory was first released in 2005 as a follow-up in Ubisoft’s hugely successful Splinter Cell franchise.

Assassin’s Creed titles, is returning to Ubisoft after leaving the company earlier in the year.McDevitt served as lead writer on the Black Flag, Revelations, Bloodlines and Discovery titles in the Assassin’s Creed universe, and also as narrative director on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

Ubisoft has announced the release date and price for its upcoming Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction game.

Ubisoft Montreal as executive producer of the series since Far Cry 3, has stepped down to start “a new chapter”.Ubisoft revealed to VGC, that the senior developer of the popular open world franchise would be leaving the company today (November 12).“After more than 10 years at Ubisoft, Dan Hay has announced that he will be pursuing a new chapter in his professional life and he will be leaving on November 12,”“While Dan has not announced where his path is taking him, we are confident that it will

Rainbow Six Extraction will finally launch on January 20, 2022 with Ubisoft revealing that pre-orders are available now.Rainbow Six Extraction was originally due to launch in September 2021 but was delayed until January earlier this year.

Ubisoft has announced that Far Cry 6‘s first paid DLC (downloadable content) will launch on Tuesday 16th November.The previously announced Vaas: Insanity DLC introduces Vaas Montenegro as a playable character.

It’s always nice to get free stuff, right? Well, Ubisoft is currently giving away the PC version of ‘Assassin’s Creed Chronicles’ for free via Ubisoft Connect, but you’ve only got a few days to grab the trilogy of games, which would usually cost around £20.

Ubisoft‘s 35th anniversary, the Assassin’s Creed Chronicles Trilogy is currently free to download for anyone on PC.PC players can download Assassin’s Creed Chronicles Trilogy for free until November 12. To grab the game while it’s free, fans can claim their copy via Ubisoft Connect on PC.For those who may have missed them at launch, each entry in the Chronicles Trilogy is a 2.5D stealth game set across three locations – Russia, China, and India.

Rainbow Six Siege is jam-packed with new content, ranging from an extensive Outback rework to a new operator, HUD system and more.For many, the biggest change in Y6S4 will be Thorn, Rainbow Six Siege‘s newest operator. Packing a proximity-based explosive and a vicious .50 calibre SMG, Thorn excels in fending off attackers at key choke points.Outside of the new operator, there’s a big rework on the cards for Outback.

Ubisoft has showcased Thorn, the next operator to join Rainbow Six Siege, and revealed everything she’ll be able to do.As part of Year 6 Season 4, Thorn will be released as a defender that uses traps to punish overreaching attackers.Her gadget – the Razorbloom Shell – is a throwable trap that sticks to any surface it can fit on. If an enemy player comes into proximity of the Razorbloom Shell, there will be a short countdown timer, and it will launch sharp blades in all directions.