Ubisoft has just announced that Assassin's Creed Shadows has been delayed from its latest release date of February 14, to a new date of March 20, 2025. So, you'll have to wait a little longer to see some nice clouds over Feudal Japan.
]]>Skyblivion, the massive modding project that’s remaking The Elder Scrolls IV in Skyrim’s engine, is now in its currently scheduled release year - 2025.
]]>In recent years, some of gaming’s biggest breakout successes have been released during the post-Christmas lull between New Year and Spring. Traditionally, it’s supposed to be a quieter time on the calendar - where we’re all too full of turkey and trimmings and sated by games gifted over the holidays to have an appetite for anything new.
]]>On TV and in films and games, Star Wars has the same problem.
]]>Ubisoft's done it again. Here's a new weird NFT game that's been released with close to zero fanfare by the publisher. This one's got Rayman in it, and is based on a thing that's inspired by Far Cry 3's fun Blood Dragon expansion, if you can believe that.
]]>XDefiant, Ubisoft's free-to-play FPS, has had its plug pulled. The publisher announced that it's "made the difficult decision to discontinue development" of the shooter, with the consequence being that up to 277 staff are set to be laid off as part of changes that'll see its San Francisco and Osaka studios be shut down, while its studio in Sydney will "ramp down".
]]>A recent Windows 11 update has seemingly made a number of Ubisoft games unplayable, including Star Wars Outlaws.
]]>“I remember going to what was probably the local video game shop or computer shop, and me and my friends saw it on the 3DO, and we were like ‘what’s this?’, we all jumped on it, and you felt badass,” current Need For Speed producer Patrick Honnoraty says. “Being able to drive it, being chased by the cops, there wasn’t an experience that was really like it at the time.”
]]>Which entries in the about to turn 30 years old Need For Speed series are your favourites? Did you think the same of all of them right after playing them for the first time? You might well have done, but a lot of games in the iconic racing series, especially over the past decade or so, have garnered a bit of a polarised or mixed reception on release.
]]>It wouldn’t be Black Friday without some of the best Star Wars deals of the year coming around, would it? Well, they’ve already started rolling in, and you can now pick up Star Wars Outlaws Limited Edition for just $49.99 from Amazon on PS5 and Xbox
]]>Sorry, Splinter Cell fans, but that long in development movie appears to be dead and buried.
]]>After an Assassin's Creed Shadows battle pass appeared to leak online, Ubisoft sets the record straight on if you have to pay for it or not.
]]>After Desmond was whacked off in Assassin's Creed 3, Ubisoft was a bit lost on what to do with the modern story, but it's hoping to fix things with Shadows.
]]>There always are a lot of cool-looking modding projects in the works for any Bethesda game at any point in time, so there's a chance that if you don't eat, sleep and breathe mods for work like I do, there's a chance Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil is one that's flown under your radar.
]]>Ubisoft has reportedly disbanded the team behind Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, having allegedly opted to prioritise helping out other projects with “better sales potential”.
]]>A Starfield modder who's already re-created the iconic prison cell from the start of Oblivion says it's part of a group project dubbed "Starblivion", that they hope will end with an "Elder star system" featuring a re-creation of Cyrodiil.
]]>There's been some breaking news around Ubisoft today. According to a reportfrom Bloomberg, the French video game industry giant is considering leaving the publicily-traded and family owned ways behind, to seek shelter from recent stock lows under Tencent's umbrella. This should worry those who've been paying attention to major gaming news over the past few years.
]]>I've been involved in more speeder crashes that were definitely my fault than I can count during my time with Star Wars Outlaws, but the good news is that the game's latest patch sounds like it'll stop me being such a danger to the other road users of the galaxy. It's just a little bit of a shame my version of Kay Vess is already doomed to spend ages on the holo-phone when her renewal's due.
]]>Ubisoft has revealed that Star Wars Outlaws undeperformed its expectations sales-wise, but it does have a plan in place for the next few months that aims to attract more players to the game. As well as putting a release date on Outlaws' first bit of DLC and a Steam release for it, there are "mutiple title updates" being worked on.
]]>Ubisoft has just announced that Assassin's Creed Shadows has been delayed from its originally planned release date of November 12, 2024, to February 14, 2025. So, you'll have to wait a little longer to see some nice clouds over Feudal Japan.
]]>Assassin's Creed Shadows will fulfil a long-running wish from fans for Japan as a setting, but Ubisoft thinks that there hasn't been a better time than now to make it.
]]>In an open world game, clouds take up a quarter of the screen at all times. They’re massive, important, and - all too often - completely overlooked. I can list a few of my all-time favourite in-game worlds (Destiny, The Witcher 3, Bloodborne, to name a few), and you know what they all have in common? Gorgeous skyboxes that do so much to help fold you into the fiction you’re playing; god rays and weather systems and a sense of scale that firmly roots you in whatever make-believe setting you’re playing in today.
]]>It turns out the Watch Dogs movie is in production, and in fact has already wrapped on filming.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>The bustling cantinas and shady back alleys of Star Wars Outlaws' gorgeously detailed (but never overwhelming) cities, towns, and small villages feel refreshing. Is it because they're deeply interactive? Nope, not at all. In fact, they're rather static sets when it comes to possible interactions. The secret sauce is that they truly feel lived-in and straight out of a galaxy far, far away.
]]>The creative director of Star Wars Outlaws has seen your complaints about some of the early stealth missions, and promises some changes are coming.
]]>STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING. I know, I say that a lot - certainly more than I should to readers who could literally be anywhere in the world and doing anything at the times I end up addressing them. It's justified this time though, I swear.
]]>Massive Entertainment has decided to offer up its stance on the 'who shot first, Han or Greedo' debate in Star Wars Outlaws and has quickly proven itself wrong.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>Kessel Sabbacc is Star Wars' answer to poker, and if you (literally) play your hand right, it can mean some quick Credits for Kay in Star Wars Outlaws. However, only one player can take home the pot, and everyone else at the table is just as eager to win as Kay — and also has the double advantage of being an AI-controlled player who didn't just learn the rules two minutes ago.
]]>"Slicing" is Star Wars lingo for hacking, and in Star Wars Outlaws, our hero Kay Vess is the kind of scoundrel who spends a lot of time merrily trying to get her hands on other peoples' property which — you guessed it — is often protected by electronic terminals that are perfect targets for a bit of slicing.
]]>During an early story beat in Star Wars Outlaws, you'll find yourself in possession of Gorak's Ring, which is basically what it sounds like: a valuable piece of jewellery belonging to Gorak, leader of the Pykes faction.
]]>Star Wars fans already know all about Credits: the multi-purpose, more or less universally accepted currency of the Galaxy Far, Far Away. It's already a fairly video game-y concept, so you won't be surprised to learn that Star Wars Outlaws adopts the concept wholesale, which means that Kay needs a steady supply of Credits in order to make purchases and perform upgrades on her equipment.
]]>Star Wars Outlaws doesn't feature the kind of skill tree you might have been expecting from Ubisoft's take on the franchise, but that's not to say that Kay Vess doesn't learn a few new tricks over the course of her open-world adventure through the Outer Rim.
]]>Star Wars Outlaws comes out properly today, following an early access period that kicked off earlier this week for folks who’d invested in the special editions of the game. Massive Entertainment’s commemorated the occasion by putting out a hotfix for PC designed to help make your intergalactic adventure run a bit more smoothly.
]]>Well, you've read the headline. Have you been affected by the early access patch issue that led some PS5 Star Wars Outlaws players to end up being forced to start new playthroughs or rish getting stuck in space? If so, you might now have an email from Ubisoft offering you some compensation that...er...it's not nothing.
]]>While it's set for full release on August 30, the early access period for Star Wars Outlaws is already underway, though in the cases of some PS5 players, it looks like that's not proving to be quite as much of a head start as they'd expected. This is thanks to issues that are seeing folks get stuck in space, and have to start a new save in order to proceed.
]]>Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws is finally out later this week, but the reviews are already in for the Red Dead Redemption-esque game, leaving just one question: how is it? Well, it depends on who you ask, as while most reviews are generally favourable, it's sitting pretty much all over the spectrum of review scores.
]]>Sabacc cards on the table first, right: Star Wars Outlaws won’t win many Game of the Year awards. There are a lot of reasons for this, not least because there have been other major releases this year which have been bolder, better marketed, or which have advanced the medium in some exciting way. Other major releases where the enemy AI isn't comically thick. Add to that the general drag factor of the Ubisoft Open World Malaise we all have to varying degrees, and its gong prospects seem about as convincing as Anakin and Padme’s chemistry. But you absolutely shouldn’t care about that, because it slaps.
]]>The team behind Skyblivion, the massive modding project that’s remaking The Elder Scrolls IV - yep, the one where everyone’s faces look a bit hilarious - in Skyrim’s engine, has just shared some fresh quest gameplay. There’s a bit of Mages Guild, a bit of a scuffle on a farm, and all of it looks pretty great, aside from the odd bug.
]]>Ubisoft has revealed the full rundown of what you can expect from Star Wars Outlaws post-launch season pass content, with two story focused DLC packs set to feature fan favourite chracters now pencilled in for later this year and early next.
]]>Are you physically terrified of the idea that a game might tell you what to do? Or, rather, that a game might signpost the ideal path to an objective for you by making ladders and ledges look a bit like they've just been paid a visit by someone who's dunked themselves in custard? Good news, then. Star Wars Outlaws has a special mode aimed right at you.
]]>I’m almost certain that I pitched Star Wars Outlaws to my mate Manky Kev when we were about 14. “All the Star Wars games are about Jedis or fighter pilots, the most boring bastards in the whole saga”, I definitely said, with the eloquence of a me three times my age. “You want a game where you get to be a baddie, but a good baddie, not a Sith, and it’s open world like GTA. And you’re Han Solo but before he started hanging around with Jedis and fighter pilots.”
]]>Some Japanese government ministries have responded to a request for their views on Assassin's Creed Shadows's apparent historical inaccuracies. Basically, their responses don't exactly comprise part of a big or heated debate, all they've seemigly done is either decline to comment, or wheel out their generic response when it comes to video games.
]]>Ubisoft's issued a lengthy statement about Assassin's Creed Shadows which sees it, among other things, apologise for some elements in the game's promotional materials which have "caused concern within the Japanese community" and remind people that, you know, Assassin's Creed games are designed to take some creative license with history.
]]>It looks to have taken a lot longer than we all might have initially expected, but there's finally a Starfield mod that adds Star Wars' Mos Eisley Cantina to the game as a fully-fledged location you can hang out in between those new-ish bounty missions.
]]>Driver, the classic driving game series from Ubisoft, was supposed to be getting a live-action TV series, but it appears to have been scrapped.
]]>Star Wars Outlaws is looking to be an exciting new addition to Ubisoft and Massive's catalogue, but according to creative director Julian Gerighty, its existence stemmed from a single conversation at E3 2018.
]]>If you're currently subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online, and you've been meaning to check out Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, this week is the perfect time to do so.
]]>Just days after a lengthy Reddit post outlining plans for it garnered a fair amount of attention, a very ambitious Starfield modding project that aimed to create an entire Elder Scrolls-themed planet featuring recreations of the worldspaces from Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind "has been cancelled". Though, the poster behind it denies that it was, as many commenters had assumed, never properly in the works to begin with.
]]>Good news, long-time fans of games about giving up at least one of your fingers so you can run across rooftops and jump on unsuspecting guards, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says some Assassin's Creed remakes are coming. Yes, there's a chance one of them might be the game with all the piratey goodness in it.
]]>A whole bunch of folks are currently busy digging into Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree expansion now that it's out, but if you love a good JRPG, it might be worth pausing your trip to the Land of Shadow to absorb what director Hidetaka Miyazaki recently said about digging the idea of him spearheading development on one.
]]>Only a few days ago, Ubisoft revealed gameplay for Assassin's Creed: Shadows during Summer Game Fest 2024, giving us an early peak at what's to expect from the latest entry in the stealth action series. But even earlier than that, we were able to put a few questions to associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois.
]]>The Fallout community is good at coming together to create cool things, with the least of these being a huge Fallout 4 mod built in just one weekend to help raise money for a charity drive by legendary Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Starfield voice actor Wes Johnson - who also stars in it.
]]>Following a quick tease at the Xbox Showcase yesterday, Ubisoft Forward had the real deal when it comes to Assassin’s Creed Shadows gameplay. As part of the presentation, we got treated to some new footage of the stealth-action game.
]]>XDefiant has just played its part in tonight's Ubisoft Forward showcase, bringing some FPS fun to proceedings by showing off a teaser for its first season, which is set to arrive on July 2.
]]>We've just gotten a fresh look at Star Wars Outlaws ahead of its arrival of August 30, via some more gameplay shown during tonight's Ubisoft Forward showcase.
]]>At Summer Game Fest 2024, I was able to sit down and play Star Wars Outlaws. In our 90-minute session with the game, I snuck through gang hideouts, tip-toed across a derelict ship in search for scraps, and darted through orbiting debris in daring space combat. Star War's Outlaw's Corellian hound-eat-hound universe is rich with character, deadly fun in short bursts, and (pending a few massive question marks) is frankly one of my most anticipated games this year.
]]>Hello there. It's still just about that time of year when all of the showcases descend upon us. Following Summer Game Fest, IGN Live, and the Xbox Games Showcase, Ubisoft Forward is next up on the docket, and you can watch today's stream of it right here.
]]>Star Wars: Outlaws made a surprise appearance at Summer Game Fest this evening. Scheduled to release on August 30, 2024, Geoff Keighley announced a brief teaser for the game, with an extended look to come during the Ubisoft Forward on Monday, June 10 at 9PM CEST.
]]>Ubisoft's Watch Dogs franchise is an odd one. After three major game releases that failed to make it nearly as big as Assassin's Creed and some transmedia playfulness, Ubisoft is doubling down on the idea of bringing it to the big screen. Now, the publisher and New Regency have landed yet another big star to spearhead the cast.
]]>XDefiant is the latest live-service shooter on the scene, and a leaker appears to be teasing some of the game's upcoming factions.
]]>After playing a closed test which I reasonably enjoyed two years ago, my expectations for XDefiant weren't super high. While my experience had been positive, everything I heard about the following tests and closed betas was that it was all heading towards enticing the Call of Duty crowd. Thankfully, the final release of the game isn't exactly that.
]]>You might have forgotten Skull and Bones, but it's back to remind you it exists with an upcoming free week.
]]>I'm having a brilliant time with XDefiant. I must admit that I wasn't particularly sold on the game prior to its release. Didn't play any of the early access periods or betas, didn't do any press previews or anything like that. Given how hectic and packed this time of year is with brilliant games, I decided to just boot it up and give it a bash when it dropped, like everyone else did. I must say it's a darn good effort - but I'm not sure how long it'll keep kicking.
]]>XDefiant is out and is pretty darn fun! It feels a lot like some classic, arcadey shooters from my childhood. Running fast in Modern Warfare 2 and the like - the exact thing every old man has been begging for over the last decade. But with all good things come the bad, and a wave of cheaters have set their sights on Ubisoft's latest release.
]]>Douglas Goodall, a quest designer for Morrowind, is once again working on the classic Bethesda game through the power of mods.
]]>Ubisoft has announced the PC specs for XDefiant and you can preload the game now on either console or PC.
]]>The creative director behind Assassin's Creed Shadows has shared some information related to the size of Ubisoft's upcoming open world stabby action game. Speaking to IGN, Jonathan Dumont stated that the game will be roughly the size of Assassin's Creed Origins, rather than the larger Valhalla.
]]>Physical copies ofAssassin's Creed Shadows will require you you to be connected to the interent in order to install the game, but you'll be fine to play the game offline once that's done, Ubisoft has confirmed. Seriously, there's a statement formatted to match the game's colour scheme and everything.
]]>We’re just days away from the release of XDefiant, Ubisoft’s free-to-play shooter that’s been in development for what felt like ten years. The game recently, finally, for real this time, locked in a release date of May 21.
]]>You like Assassin's Creed, right? Well Ubisoft is set to properly reveal Assassin's Creed Shadows - you might know it by the name Assassin's Creed: Codename Red - today, May 15, and you can can watch that reveal trailer with us!
]]>No Rest for the Wicked, the unlikely next game from Ori series creator Moon Studios, is one day away from release. As we approach the big day, the developer has been revealing a few final details about the game, alongside dropping the launch trailer.
]]>Dragon's Dogma 2 is an early but solid contender for GOTY – we said that might be the case during preview, and we’re certain of it now. It’s a game of uncompromised vision, and where the original looked at the likes of Fable and Oblivion and asked “what does Capcom’s version of that look like?”, the sequel responds: “why don’t we make Capcom’s version of Dragon’s Dogma instead?”.
]]>Amazon's Fallout TV Show is here now, but before it was, the show had a swanky Hollywood premiere that I'm sure my invite for got lost in the post. At that premiere, snazzily dressed Todd Howard said some things, and some of these things were about the potential idea of an Elder Scrolls adaptation. When it comes to such a thing, it sounds like Howard's plan is - simply put - to keep on being picky.
]]>Ubisoft and Evil Empire have announced The Rogue Prince of Persia, a 2D action-platforming rogue-lite game coming to Steam Early Access on May 14.
]]>Ubisoft has announced the release date for Star Wars Outlaws, the upcoming open-world game from Massive Entertainment.
]]>The Best Games Ever podcast is a game show where three totally normal and socially acceptable panellists have to find the best game in a peculiar category such as "Best game with a breakfast buffet," or "Best game with loads of vandalism." They have to pitch their pick to our host, Jim, who uses his power to decide the winner. But there's a lot of office politics, backstabbing, and meta-gaming going on which makes this mild-mannered panel game fraught with real danger.
]]>If you can believe it, Ubisoft's upcoming shooter XDefiant has been delayed once again, but a new date should be on the way soon.
]]>At a behind-closed-doors preview of Ubisoft's Neo NPC generative AI project, CEO of Ubisoft Yves Guillemot - speaking to journalists - was asked by VG247 whether he was concerned that the company's push will be recieved in the same negative light as the company's prior dive into NFT and Web 3. In response, Guillemot stated that all new evolutions have to be "considered and tested".
]]>Playing video games with your family is definitely never a recipe for arguments, and Steam’s just introduced an improved way to definitely not get into such arguments. Steam Families, now available in beta, will let you do a bunch of stuff with your loved ones, including play very mid games at the same time.
]]>Ten and a half years after Ubisoft announced it during Sony's 2013 gamescom press conference, the game maker’s Watch Dogs film project has resurfaced.
]]>If you're anything like me, nothing makes you lose interest in a game quicker than the words "always online". Or "free-to-play". Or "connected experience", or whatever other marketing terms they've come up with for "live service grindfest that sucks". Sometimes they don't even tell you upfront that it's a GAAS title, leaving it up to the prospective audience to divine this information from visual cues in gameplay trailers like... three distinct types of in-game currency, numbers popping out of enemies heads, and the whole thing having that unmistakable whiff of a project that no involved creative could ever muster real enthusiasm for. The core of a good idea spoiled by shareholder demands. Etc.
]]>Ubisoft has announced new content updates are coming to Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.
]]>The first season of Skull and Bones kicks off on February 27 and will run for 12 weeks, as will the others, during which you can expect plenty of opportunities for high-sea pirate shenanigans.
]]>The Best Games Ever podcast is a game show where three regular panellists have to find the best game in a weirdly specific category such as "Best game with a named horse", or "Best game with a terrible British accent". They have to pitch their pick to our host, Jim, who then decides the winner. But there's a lot of office politics, backstabbing, and meta-gaming going on which makes this mild-mannered panel game fraught with real danger.
]]>In a statement that I can only refer to as "confident," Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has attempted to justify the high cost of Skull and Bones by calling it a "quadruple-A" project.
]]>For the final story mission of Assassin's Creed Origins, the player once again resumes the role of Aya, and heads to Rome to kill Septimius the Jackal, along with Julius Caesar himself. In this Assassin's Creed Origins Septimius boss fight guide, we'll walk you through how to complete the very final fight of the game, taking down Caesar's bodyguard with relative ease.
]]>Assassin's Creed Origins sees protagonist Bayek going after the Order of Ancients, that murdered his son near the start of the game. As such, you're going to have to take down some of them through straight combat, one of these being Flavius the Lion towards the end of the game. In this Assassin's Creed Origins Flavius boss fight guide, we'll be walking you through how to take down the powerful enemy, that carries an ancient and powerful weapon.
]]>The Assassin's Creed Origins Hermit Hideouts are a side activity you might be unaware of, scattered throughout the entire map, and usually in the middle of nowhere. In this Assassin's Creed Origins Hermit locations guide, we'll be detailing how to reach every Hermit camp site in the game, as well as the benefits of undertaking the journey to each.
]]>While out in the wilds of Assassin's Creed Origins, you might come across the Taste of Her Sting quest, which ultimately leads Bayek on a trek around Egypt searching for a select few ritual sites. In this Taste of Her Sting quest guide, we'll walk you through how to find the ritual sites in Assassin's Creed Origins, and complete the mysterious mission as quickly as possible.
]]>In Assassin's Creed Origins, earning money and levelling Bayek up quickly are everything, as significant portions of the map are locked out to all the lower level players until later in the game. In this Assassin's Creed Origins how to level up guide, we'll be walking you through the best ways possible to level up as fast as you can, detail the Best Abilities to Unlock in the skill tree, while also detailing how to earn money quickly in Assassin's Creed Origins.
]]>Assassin's Creed Origins marked the big return of Ubisoft's historical franchise after a year off, with some heavy RPG elements and an intriguing new protagonist in Bayek. In this Assassin's Creed Origins guide, we'll be walking you through all the details you need to know heading into the game, including how to earn money quickly, as well as how to level up quickly, and details on the Assassin's Creed Origins Curse of the Pharaohs expansion.
]]>Remember the Oblivion quest where you crash a dinner party and unleash a cheeky underpants-based spell on some rich folks? Well, Skyblivion's developers have just given us a look at the massive mod's version of it during a showcase at C3.
]]>“I remember a time not too long ago when Wanaming0, a modder friend of mine, needed help getting this mask to follow the facial expressions of the NPC wearing it,” recalls modder Neeher, “Well, I had no idea.”
]]>Ubisoft has announced its endgame and post-launch plans for Skull and Bones along with providing dates for next month’s open beta.
]]>If you’re a fan of Bethesda games, a new community modding event that’s set to take place on Twitch towards the end of next week looks well worth checking out, especially now that the artist behind some of Skyrim and Fallout 4’s most iconic creatures is set to make an appearance at it.
]]>A recent rating from European ratings board PEGI seems to suggest a new Far Cry game is on the way.
]]>Prince of Persia The Lost Crown is quite hard. It certainly isn’t the more casual-focused romp I expected when I first booted up the cartoon-comic reinterpretation of the classic gaming IP. Whether it’s surprisingly challenging platforming segments, smart ability and time-based puzzles, or some boss encounters that give even Hollow Knight battles a run for their money, PoP The Lost Crown is a tricky old game to get to grips with.
]]>The Elder Scrolls Online’s next expansion, dubbed Gold Road, is set to arrive this summer following a big reveal as part of last night’s big Xbox Developer Direct. The game is also getting a 15 month-long tenth birthday celebration, which seems a tad excessive (we're just jealous really).
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