Confirming the utterly obvious, Joystiq reports that a sequel to Assassin’s Creed is indeed in development and that it was talked about by Ubisoft during its first-half fiscal 2008-09 conference call. The confirmation indicates that the publisher is hoping to release the game during its fiscal 2010, which would place it during the holiday 2009 [...]

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Ubisoft today announced that downloadable content for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Far Cry 2 are coming next week.
Dubbed “Fortune’s Pack”, it will add new weapons, vehicles and maps to the open-world shooter. This includes three new weapons – Silenced Shotgun, Sawed-off Shotgun and Crossbow; two new vehicles – Quad and Unimog; and [...]

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Jumping on the DLC bandwagon is the upcoming Prince of Persia title which apparently has a significant amount of downloadable content being made for it, according to Ubi producer Ben Mattes.
“We certainly have plans for downloadable content, [but] we can’t really say more than that right now,” he said. “The [...]

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Famed strategy games developer Massive Entertainment was bought by Ubisoft in the past week, and with new ownership comes a new direction: “light MMOs.”
This comes straight from the horse’s mouth himself – Ubi president Yves Guillemot – who said: “They are going to help us to also get closer to the MMO space… in [...]

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Having just gotten the system requirements for the PC version of Prince of Persia, word comes that the PC release of the game has been delayed one week after the console versions hit stores.
This comes from Amazon’s online listings for the PC version, marking it for release on December 9, one week after the [...]

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With the fresh take on the series due out December 2, Ubisoft issued system requirements for the PC version of Prince of Persia, which is also hitting PS3 and Xbox 360.
A 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo is the minimum system requirement, along with 1GB/2GB of RAM in Windows XP/Vista, Shader Model 3.0 supported graphics card [...]

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Despite being radically different from the original, Far Cry 2, relying on its brand power, has sold over a million units worldwide since it was released in the third week of October.
"[Far Cry 2] is well on track to achieve our expectations for the year," said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. "The holiday quarter is [...]

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Seeing as how Heroes is performing poorly at ratings, it’s not surprising to hear that Ubisoft has cancelled its game based on the superpowered television series.
"The rights to the Heroes video game have reverted back to NBC Universal. Ubisoft will no longer produce a video game based on the TV series," the publisher simply [...]

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The game is set to hit store shelves tomorrow but announcements from Ubisoft haven’t stopped yet. Their recent announcement is of the Special Edition of EndWar which includes a Bluetooth headset.
While the above picture is of the PS3 bundle, both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions will ship with their console specific official Bluetooth headsets.
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French publisher Ubisoft released a report detailing its second quarter this year, which ended in September, and there is both good and bad news for the company.
First up, the good news – the company was successful enough after half its fiscal year to raise its guidance up to 1.05 billion Euros from 1.02 billion [...]

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Ubisoft has announced that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Tom Clancy’s EndWar has gone gold and entered manufacturing.
Developed by Ubisoft Shanghai, the game attempts to revolutionize real-time strategy gameplay through voice controls. A demo is now available for Xbox 360 owners.
EndWar will ship to retailers on November 4. A PC version is [...]

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Ubisoft today announced that they will release Prince of Persia Classic on the PlayStation Network on October 23. This is the remake of the critically acclaimed 1989 game that started it all.
The remake will, however, improve upon the original with revamped character designs and animations, as well as new visual and lighting effects in [...]

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While the console versions are due out next month, and the PC a bit later, word comes that Ubisoft’s voice-controlled strategy game Tom Clancy’s EndWar is headed to the DS and PSP.
Moving to the handheld format, the game will change to turn-based strategy and will lose the voice-command feature present in the PC and [...]

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The Tom Clancy franchise has been very profitable for Ubisoft so far, with blockbuster series such as Splinter Cell and GRAW raking in big money for the French company. Ubisoft now plans on converging and forming one consistent universe with games that will interact in each other, according to a recent interview.
"In [later] versions [...]

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With the release of the Xbox 360 demo for Tom Clancy’s EndWar, many thought a PS3 demo would be released, too, and that doesn’t seem to be the case at Ubisoft. The company previously noted that the demo was exclusive to Xbox 360 users only, but it has since confirmed [...]

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Keeping on the DRM path, the Far Cry 2 forums notes that the game will come with DRM, with a subsequent post by a Ubi forum manager confirming the use of SecuROM DRM indicated on the French Ubisoft shop.
The DRM will allow five activations on 3 separate computers. Interestingly, uninstalling the game “refunds” an activation [...]

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With just a week left until Far Cry 2’s scheduled retail release on October 21, Ubisoft today announced that the sequel to the open-world shooter has gone gold and entered manufacturing.
Taking on the reins from Crytek, Ubisoft Montreal set the shooter in the vast lands of Africa, having players torch jungles and kill enemies [...]

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Having noted that a PC version of EndWar is likely, creative director Michael de Plater has now stated why they won’t be releasing the PC version of the game until after the console versions are out: PIRACY.
"To be honest, if PC wasn’t pirated to hell and back, there’d probably be [...]

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This Wednesday will mark the release of mech shooter War World from Third World Games on Xbox Live Arcade.
Published by Microsoft and Ubisoft, the game will feature 16 mechs, over 100 singleplayer levels and four online multiplayer modes. It will retail for 800 Microsoft points ($10).

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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot promised yet another music game to the world, though it will be “different enough not to be considered ‘me too’.”
He talked about the rapid expansion of music games following the success of the Guitar Hero franchise, noting that it could become cluttered with clones.
"The games do like $1 billion in [...]

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