Another Ubisoft Forward showcase stream is coming

HomeNews Another Ubisoft Forward showcase stream is comingPlease, just tell me Beyond Good & Evil 2 isn’t cancelled again Please, just tell me Beyond Good & Evil 2 isn’t cancelled again A fair few games in recent E3 showcases were conspicuously absent from today’s Ubisoft Forward stream: noBeyond Good & Evil 2, noRainbow Six Quarantine, noGods & Monsters, noRoller Champions, noSkull & Bones. And yet they found timeto announce Far Cry 6....

July 12, 2020 · 2 min · 270 words · Leonard Forbes

Assassin's Creed Valhalla isn't really an AC game, but it's still great

HomeFeaturesAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla Assassin’s Creed Valhalla isn’t really an AC game, but it’s still greatEivor? I hardly know her! Eivor? I hardly know her! Playing a big ol' chunk ofAssassin’s Creed Valhallamade me realise how much the series has changed since the first game in 2007. If you played Altaïr’s first adventure and then skipped straight to Valhalla, where big buff blonde viking Eivor is running around 9th century England, you probably wouldn’t realise they were in the same series....

July 12, 2020 · 6 min · 1266 words · Amanda Dixon

Call of Duty: Warzone - Best P90 Loadout

HomeGuides Call of Duty: Warzone - Best P90 LoadoutHere’s what we like to attach. Here’s what we like to attach. Often overlooked, the P90’s actually pretty good in Warzone you know. It’s easy to handle, has a huge magazine size, fast fire rate, and its iron sights are very nice indeed.Below we’ll break down how we kit out the P90 for Warzone.Best P90 Loadout in WarzoneAs is the case with most Warzone loadouts, we want to increase the P90’s damage range and accuracy while keeping its other stats as level as possible....

July 12, 2020 · 8 min · 1644 words · Christian Gonzalez

Far Cry 6 announced for realsies, coming in February 2021

HomeNewsFar Cry 6 Far Cry 6 announced for realsies, coming in February 2021Surprise! Surprise! First, the game’s cinematic title sequence: To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings And here’s a trailer introducing our dictator, Anton Castillo, and his son, Diego. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The definitely-not-Cuba-nuh-uh island is in their grip, so it’s up to guerrilla leader Dani Rojas (that’s us) and chums to murder them to bits....

July 12, 2020 · 1 min · 188 words · Rodney Gilbert

Preview: a year on, Watch Dogs Legion's "play as anyone" is so crazy it might just work

HomeFeaturesWatch Dogs Legion Preview: a year on, Watch Dogs Legion’s “play as anyone” is so crazy it might just workA-hoo! Hackers of London! A-hoo! Hackers of London! I don’t go round singing “Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner!” or anything, but out of all the places I’ve lived so far, London is the one I think of as home. And this so happens to be the setting for hacktion-adventure gameWatch Dogs Legion, which is definitely not calledWatch DogsLondon despite how often I accidentally say that....

July 12, 2020 · 5 min · 889 words · Alexander Rojas

Three more Ubisoft executives resign following abuse allegations

HomeNews Three more Ubisoft executives resign following abuse allegationsIncluding their #2 man Including their #2 man Ubisoft today announced that another three executives have resigned as the company continue trying to deal with the recent allegations ofserious and widespread harrassment and abuse. The three stepping down are chief creative officer Serge Hascoët, global HR head Cécile Cornet, and Yannis Mallat, the managing director of Ubisoft’s Canadian studios. This comes a few days afterthe resignation of Maxime Béland, vice president of Ubisoft’s Editorial department....

July 12, 2020 · 6 min · 1124 words · Daniel Cox

Ubisoft battle royale Hyper Scape is now open for everyone to try

HomeNewsHyper Scape Ubisoft battle royale Hyper Scape is now open for everyone to try Ubisoft’s free-to-play battle royale FPSHyper Scapetoday launched into open beta, after a short closed beta with invitations handed out on Twitch. As the genre goes, 100 players are running around a big map looting and shooting.Hyper Scapeis pretty zippy as battle royales go, mind, with players bouncing from streets to rooftops and zipping about with special abilities....

July 12, 2020 · 2 min · 337 words · Karen Taylor

Ubisoft's server issues won't stop the Watch Dogs 2 giveaway

HomeNewsWatch Dogs 2 Ubisoft’s server issues won’t stop the Watch Dogs 2 giveawayThe computer burst The computer burst Update:Anyone with an Ubi account can now sign up for a free copyover here. Ubisoft’s offer ofWatch Dogs 2for free if you watched today’s Ubisoft Forward stream today was meant to be a tempting little sweetener, but things broke. The servers seemingly overloaded, meaning that not only were many unable to sign into their Ubi accounts and become eligible for the giveaway, some people are complaining all the failed attempts got their accounts automatically disabled....

July 12, 2020 · 2 min · 390 words · Nina Castillo

Carrion's marvellous meatmonster is coming on July 23rd

HomeNewsCarrion Carrion’s marvellous meatmonster is coming on July 23rdWhat a lovely Thing What a lovely Thing In less than two weeks, you could be a horrible meaty mass of tentacles and teeth crawling through vents and devouring hapless humans. And in the game, obvs. Devolver Digital today announced a July 23rd release date forCarrion, the platformer which will at least let you live out a digital facsimile of your true life’s dream....

July 11, 2020 · 2 min · 254 words · Linda Brown

Devolver Digital's self-indulgent showcase was welcome spectacle in a long and slow notE3

HomeNews Devolver Digital’s self-indulgent showcase was welcome spectacle in a long and slow notE3And yet, it felt concise compared to most And yet, it felt concise compared to most To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Struthers and Masters are very good. Look, some jokes fell flat and this whole thing would be better 10 minutes shorter. But god, over the endless weeks of notE3 streams I have seen far more than 10 minutes of a 17-year-old SpongeBob SquarePants video game alone, this is fine....

July 11, 2020 · 1 min · 179 words · Brandon Macdonald

Tropico 6's city-building shores are free to visit all weekend

HomeNewsTropico 6 Tropico 6’s city-building shores are free to visit all weekendFree flights! Free flights! There are only so many times I can say “cor, wouldn’t it be nice to travel again” in the pandemic-ridden hell year that is 2020. But I’m going to say it again here, becauseTropico 6’s sun-swept beaches are opening up all weekend. The irreverent, satirical city-builder is currently free to download and try over on Steam, with prices slashed on trips to the rest of the Tropico franchise....

July 11, 2020 · 2 min · 306 words · Alexander Nelson

Weird West shows some of its immersive sim-ish bits in a new trailer

HomeNewsWeird West Weird West shows some of its immersive sim-ish bits in a new trailerFrom some former Akane folks From some former Akane folks “I can’t quite get whatWeird Westis as a game, but I bloody love the aesthetic,” our Natesaidlast month. He’d just seen a notE3 trailer which had plenty of mood but not much of the game. It’s an action-RPG with some immersive sim-ish bits, yeah? From some folks formerly ofDishonoredand Prey devs Arkane?...

July 11, 2020 · 2 min · 265 words · Tina Price

Amazon's MMO New World is delayed to spring 2021

HomeNewsNew World Amazon’s MMO New World is delayed to spring 2021New world new problems New world new problems Amazon’s expedition into game development has hit another bump in the road. Their open-world historical fantasy MMONew Worldwas scheduled for release on August 25th. They’ve now pushed back to spring of 2021 to take “time to get things where we want them before we fully release.” “With our August 25th launch approaching, we have been scrutinizing our feature list, taking input from our Alpha audience, and listening to what they enjoyed (or didn’t!...

July 10, 2020 · 2 min · 354 words · Veronica Brown