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Ubisoft employees have released an open letter showing support for the Activision Blizzard walkout, and asking for their employers to do more.The letter comes shortly after Activision Blizzard employees announced a walkout to protest the company’s response to allegations laid out in a lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

Ubisoft has now confirmed that the new expansion for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will be available to download from August 13, despite previous rumours suggesting the update would release earlier.Called Siege of Paris, the expansion will retell the Viking invasion of France in 845 AD.

Ghost Recon: Breakpoint will soon be getting a crossover with Tomb Raider in celebration of the game’s 20th anniversary.Amongst a slew of updates that have surfaced for Ghost Recon this year, the 20th anniversary celebrations have prompted a new Operation to be added to the most recent title in the series.Ghost Recon: Breakpoint will be updated to include an Operation titled Motherland, which will incorporate characters from Wildlands and Tomb Raider.Although there are no further details as of

Far Cry 5’s Arcade level editor is now home to a remake of spy games Project IGI and IGI 2: Covert Strike.A fan of both games going by the name, GregorOnline, on YouTube has uploaded the full maps of each game, totalling 33 missions.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Siege Of Paris DLC could release on August 5, if a Windows store leak is to be believed. Posted by Assassin’s Creed fan account CriptAssassini on Twitter, it looks as though the next Assassin’s Creed Valhalla DLC set in Paris, France, was briefly listed to release on August 5.

Rainbow Six Siege developers at Ubisoft are keen to get rid of the Terrorist Hunt game mode – but not until they’ve created a new ‘warmup’ mode.During a Reddit AMA (spotted via Twitter), Rainbow Six Siege devs were asked whether there would be any further updates to Terrorist Mode.

Assassin’s Creed art director Raphael Lacoste has left Ubisoft to join the independent developer, Haven Studios.The news comes from Lacoste’s Twitter where he shared he would be leaving the company after 16 years.

Ubisoft has announced that its mobile game, Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad, will be closing down on October 4, 13 months after it first launched.The news was announced on the game’s official site with the caption “The Story Ends”, explaining that there will be no new content following this week’s update.The blog post explained that the game was “no longer sustainable” despite the development team investigating several avenues to keep it going.

Kotaku has found reports of sexual harassment, toxic management, and poor pay are all prominent at Ubisoft Singapore, with one former developer going so far as to say it’s internally known as “one of the worst Ubisoft studios in terms of culture”.According to the report, Ubisoft Singapore is rife with problems including “not paying some local junior developers enough to move out of their parents’ homes” despite having “soaked up…government subsidies” with problems also including sexual

Ubisoft has promised that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will ‘surprise’ players with its post-launch content, well into its second year.During a first-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Ubisoft chief financial officer Frédérick Duguet mentioned the surprising content planned for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.“We will continue to deliver powerful Assassin’s Creed content over the coming months and years, starting with an ambitious post-launch plan for Valhalla,” he said (via VGC).“[This includes] the

Ubisoft’s recent first quarter earnings call, CEO Yves Guillemot has said that around 80 per cent of the company’s current investments are premium titles.Guillemot said (thanks, VGC): “around 80 per cent of our current investments are targeted at significantly expanding our premium offering by growing our biggest existing franchises, by building new IPs with a focus on player engagement and social interaction, and by adding blockbuster license entertainment brands to our portfolio.”He added that

Valve‘s newly announced handheld, Steam Deck, has already been generating interest in the industry, and that includes Ubisoft who may be considering putting its games back on Steam.The publisher had previously pivoted away from the PC platform, instead partnering with the Epic Games Store, while also running its own digital storefront.However, as reported in IGN, an investors call yesterday (July 20) with Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot hinted that the Steam Deck might persuade the company to release

Ubisoft has posted a tweet suggesting that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla could add one-handed swords in the next update.Ubisoft first mentioned one-handed swords during their E3 2021 stream.

Ubisoft has announced Tom Clancy’s XDefiant, the next entry in a franchise that includes games like The Division, Rainbow Six Siege and Splinter Cell.First announced on July 19, the game is a 6v6 multiplayer shooter where players will use customised weapons, unique abilities and traits to earn a hard-fought victory.While it may seem wholly ruthless, Executive Producer Mark Rubin hopes that the game will be fun “whether you’re playing casually or pushing yourself competitively.”With a host of new

Ubisoft has announced Tom Clancy’s XDefiant, the latest entry to the Tom Clancy franchise that players will be able available starting August 5.Coming via a worldwide reveal earlier today (July 19), Tom Clancy’s XDefiant will be a free-to-play multiplayer shooter that “combines intense gunplay with personalized loadouts and specialized factions”. Looks like those leaks earlier this year were spot on.

Rainbow Six Siege developers have said they don’t have any major plans for Training Grounds and Situations mode.Associate game director on Rainbow Six Seige, Aurélien Chiron, spoke to PCGamesN about the lack of new content for the modes in the FPS, explaining that the team isn’t happy about the current options either.“Training Grounds and Situations are not a great tool for onboarding,” Chiron said.

Ubisoft is revealing a “brand new” game set in the Tom Clancy universe tonight with rumours pointing to it being a new first-person shooter for consoles and PC.The event will launch at 11 AM PT/8 PM CEST according to Ubisoft’s Twitter.

Ubisoft Montreal is finally taking steps to adjust the volume of crouching in Rainbow Six Siege, after the community has been asking for years. Speaking with PCGamesN, game director Aurélie Débant says that prone is staying in Rainbow Six Siege, but there will be some changes. “To be clear, we are not currently thinking about removing prone from Siege.

Ubisoft has announced that Rainbow Six Extraction has been delayed, and will release in January 2022.No specific date has been given for the January release, but Ubisoft believes it to be the right decision for the “long-term performance” of the game.

Ubisoft‘s open-world sports game Riders Republic will now be released on October 28.According to Ubisoft, “the goal with the decision is to give more opportunities for players to test, play firsthand and give feedback to ensure we are bringing the best experiences to market and allow them to reach their full potential.”The news of Riders Republic‘s delay came alongside the announcement that Rainbow Six Extraction has also been pushed back to 2022.

Ubisoft has released an official Orlog dice game that can be backed through Kickstarter.The game of Orlog is featured in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, where the player meets numerous people ready for an exciting game of dice. Now that game is getting a real-world recreation and PureArts, with licensing from Ubisoft, are funding it through Kickstarter.The project went live yesterday, July 13 and hit 100 per cent funded in 35 minutes.

Rainbow Six Siege operator Tachanka is getting a host of changes in the next update for Year 6 Season 2, alongside a handful of other operators.The Year 6 Season 2.2 update to Rainbow Six Siege is making balance changes to a few operators, and Ubisoft has detailed the changes in a designer’s notes post, with Tachanka, Alibi, Frost, and Zofia all getting updates and nerfs.Accompanying the update are a range of graphs and matrices that show the difference between win rate and how often the heroes

Far Cry 6, the new open world shooter from Ubisoft, is almost here.The highly anticipated Far Cry sequel was shown off by Ubisoft Toronto devs during E3 where we got our first proper look at its gameplay.

Ubisoft has confirmed that it will address several audio bugs in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege that have supposedly been around for a good couple of years. As brought to light by professional Rainbow Six Siege esports player Niclas “Pengu” Mouritzen at the end of June, the reported bug that was said to be plaguing the competitive scene allowed for “dropping hatches, vaulting, and ripping C4 and [gre]nades” silently in-game, making the bug ripe for abuse in competitive play.It’s not exactly

Far Cry 6 narrative director Navid Khavari has revealed that actor Giancarlo Esposito brought his own props to the first meeting he had about playing character Antón Castillo.Khavari confirmed this via an interview with The Loadout that Esposito was incredibly well prepared for his role as Far Cry 6‘s main antagonist.“It was a bit surreal to sit down in front of him in our first meeting in New York,” Khavari explained. That meeting lasted for something like four hours.

PC version of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has always been playable with PS5 controllers, the game has been updated to further utilise DualSense features.Following an unannounced update, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla now makes full use of adaptive triggers on PC. As noted by VCG, PS5 trigger buttons will stop halfway through the motion of firing a bow and will require an extra press to release the arrow.These changes are only applied if the controller is physically plugged into the PC.

Ubisoft has chosen to delist Might & Magic X: Legacy from Steam in light of the game’s ongoing progression issues.Might & Magic X: Legacy has now been removed from Steam after players were unable to progress further than Act 1 in its game due to digital rights management software being unable to reach the server which was closed earlier in the year.The game had its serves shut down by Ubisoft on June 1, locking players out of the game’s The Falcon And The Unicorn expansion, but also preventing

Ubisoft Montpellier is currently working on Beyond Good and Evil 2, but a new job listing mentions an unannounced game.A post on LinkedIn from the studio states: “We are looking for a Community Developer to manage the community strategy of Beyond Good and Evil 2 and an unannounced game.”The hire needs to be an “expert in digital and communication, fluent English/ French and have a solid experience in digital marketing and digital creations.”Beyond Good and Evil 2 was originally announced in 2017

Ubisoft’s upcoming Rainbow Six Extraction will not add any new operators, instead only using those  present in Siege.Ubisoft spoke to The Loadout and revealed that Extraction would not add any new operators unique to the new setting.“With the huge number of operators now available on Siege, we had more than enough options at our disposal to make sure to cover all the angles.” game director Patrik Méthé said”He added that there were discussions about new operators specific to Extraction.

Far Cry 5 player Krollywood has reuploaded their remake of N64’s GoldenEye 007 after MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) asked Ubisoft to remove it.READ MORE: The best VR games you can play in 2021Krollywood spent two and half years recreating the N64 classic GoldenEye 007 in Far Cry 5’s editor. The project faithfully rebuilt 18 levels from the original game using Far Cry 5’s props.

Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope is reported to be three times the size of the team which worked on the original.The news comes from an interview between Multiplay.it and the game’s creative director Davide Soliani and producer Cristina Nava (translated by VideoGamesChronicle).Soliani and Nava confirmed that the studio for Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was developed with just over 100 staff members during the interview.An increase in staffing and the addition of other Ubisoft divisions means that

Rainbow Six Siege pro Pengu has accused the competitive scene of exploiting audio bugs for a number of years.Pengu tweeted about the bugs yesterday, saying that he had managed to test and replicate abilities which allowed for “dropping hatches, vaulting, and ripping C4 nades” silently. He was also able to throw rappel ropes with no in-game noise as well.Rainbow Six Siege‘s highly-competitive nature means that players often use audio cues to understand what the enemy team is doing.

Rainbow Six: Extraction’s director, Patrik Méthé, said that one of the pillars during production was the belief that ‘guns are not enough’.Talking to The Loadout, Méthé discussed how Rainbow Six: Extraction will stand out among the many upcoming co-op PvE titles. “Our main focus from the inception of the game was to create a different kind of co-op shooter,” he said.“There are a bunch of games in the genre that are very fun, as they allow the player to mindlessly mow down hundreds of enemies per

Far Cry 5 by a modder using the detailed in-game map editor.Edinburgh-based Mojo Swoptops, a mapper who previously created a block of Scottish flats in the game, released a video showing the creation.Despite minor discrepancies in font and shop-floor stock, the Far Cry 5 map editor has allowed for a close copy of Greggs to be inserted into Montana.The video shows the full process of creating the Greggs storefront, using Ubisoft’s Arcade tools.Mojo Swoptops’ channel is dedicated to these kinds of

YouTube by Ubisoft shows improvements made to their Snowdrop engine for their upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.The Snowdrop engine is Ubisoft’s proprietary game engine and was first used for Tom Clancy’s The Division in 2016.

Goldeneye 007 have been removed from Far Cry 5‘s arcade mode by Ubisoft.The project was by YouTuber Krollywood, which took over 3 years and 1400 hours to complete, featured iconic levels such as the Dam opener and Cradle finale recreated in painstaking detail.But owing to a copyright claim from MGM, Ubisoft has removed the levels for download.