Ubisoft: Last News

Ubisoft has confirmed that the new season of The Division 2 will be pushed back to 2022, though teases some of the new content that it will launch with.In an update posted yesterday (October 26) and spotted by PCGamesN, the development team has shared that “we have made the decision to move our new season, game mode and associated content release to February 2022”.Describing the upcoming update for The Division 2 as “one of our most ambitious to date”, Ubisoft adds “this additional time will allow our passionate development team to deliver the best quality for this new content”.In the mean time, Ubisoft will “continue to support the game and work on most pressing live issues”.While The Division 2 fans will have to wait a bit longer for the

Might and Magic 10 from sale in July, Ubisoft has fixed the game and rereleased it onto the Ubisoft Store and Steam.Might and Magic 10 players had a bit of a disastrous time earlier this year when the game’s servers were shut down in June and the game was rendered unplayable. The shutdown led to an inability to reach further than Act 1 in the game as well as no way of playing any downloadable content either.It was a problem that confused even Ubisoft, who declared at the time that it was “investigating the reported issues”.

Ubisoft is opening up a Free Trial week for Riders Republic, letting anyone who wants to try the game jump in for freeStarting from Thursday (October 21) and running until next Wednesday (October 27), Riders Republic will be available to try out for fans on all platforms the game will launch on.

Far Cry 6 will appear in Ubisoft‘s digital Uno game, with characters from the recently-released shooter appearing as their very own cards.The latest Uno DLC (downloadable content), The Call Of Yara, lets the characters and tropical setting of Far Cry 6 take over the card game (thanks, TheXboxHub).Described as “Uno done the Yaran way”, The Call Of Yara gives protagonist Dani Rojas, and the rest of Far Cry 6‘s recognisable cast, their very own card in the card game.“Plunge into the unique ambiance of the tropical paradise that is Yara before planning your next coup or whatever guerrillero stuff you have planned.

Siege commentator KiXSTAr passed away on October 11.Michael “KiXSTAr” Stockley was a former player turned Pro League caster for Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege. He played professionally as a member of Team Orbit in 2016 and later that year he became a broadcaster.

Far Cry 6 on PS4 are reporting that they’re unable to upgrade to the PS5 version due to receiving Russian versions of the game.This isn’t the first time Ubisoft has sent players the wrong version of a game. As initially reported by Eurogamer, these Russian discs don’t affect the gameplay, but they do prevent UK owners from upgrading to the latest version of the game unless they switch to a Russian PSN account.

Ubisoft has confirmed that the Doktor’s Curse Halloween event will make a comeback as a “revamp” this year, giving Rainbow Six Siege fans who missed it in 2019 a chance to try again.The return of Doktor’s Curse was announced on Friday (October 8) through a spooky trailer that parodies a bunch of older horror movie tropes.As well as confirming that the mode will be returning to Rainbow Six Siege, the trailer also notes that the returning Halloween event will be a “revamp” to the original game mode.In 2019, Doktor’s Curse was a 5v5 game mode for Rainbow Six Siege, where one team played as hunters and the other as monsters on a modified version of the Theme Park map.

Far Cry 7 might focus more on an online-oriented approach, a few sources are noting. Stephen Totlio mentioned this in the Axios Gaming email newsletter, saying that journalist Jason Schreier said in June about the series going in a “radically different direction” actually “tracks with a source of my own who said the company was exploring a more online-oriented approach for a sequel.”The recently released Far Cry 6 seems to be dividing critics, as some are pleased with the overall gameplay loop whilst others note that the formula used since Far Cry 3 in 2012 is feeling incredibly stale.NME’s review for the game scored it four out of five stars and said, “it’s the same old toothless Far Cry game.

Ubisoft has confirmed that the antagonist of Far Cry 2 – the Jackal – is actually the player’s character from the first Far Cry.Speaking to IGN about how the villains of Far Cry were created, Clint Hocking – creative director of Far Cry 2 – has shared who the Jackal actually is.Confirming a decade of fan theories, Hocking revealed that “the Jackal is actually supposed to be Jack Carver from the original Far Cry“.Explaining how the Jackal turned from protagonist to antagonist, Hocking said that “Jack Carver in the original Far Cry was this shifty, smuggler, gun runner kind of crook.

Ubisoft sent a DMCA for its removal.This list contained games that had not yet been announced, and some of them appeared to have placeholder names. Some games, however, had been released by the time the list came out.

Rainbow Six Siege that was preventing players from joining playlists seems to have been fixed after devs admit to “not having a good weekend”.The issue arose when players tried to join playlists but appeared to be matched with a brand new account. This account/player did not exist, so this “ghost” could not be kicked to fix the problem.

Ubisoft has reconfirmed Far Cry 6 will include a free next-gen upgrade for players.Almost a year since the launch of PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, there has been confusion and inconsistency among publishers and platform holders in regards when it comes to players who buy a game on PS4 or Xbox One and want to upgrade to the next generation.While some games do provide free upgrades – referred to as Smart Delivery on Xbox – some are only provided for an extra cost, such as how Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War required players to buy the more expensive Cross-Gen Bundle, while FIFA 22‘s Dual Entitlement program is not available for the standard edition.The Far Cry Twitter account sent a post yesterday (September 7) to confirm what it had promised

Ubisoft has announced that Watch Dogs: Legion will be free to play from Friday, September 3 until Sunday, September 5.Announced via a blog post, Watch Dogs: Legion will be playable on PS5, PS4, PC, and Google Stadia throughout this time and will be entirely free to try.Like with other free-to-play weekends, players can preload the game now on all participating platforms so they are ready to play in time for the weekend.

Watch Dogs: Legion will be a crossover with TV show Money Heist, as a brand new trailer shows.The trailer was released today (August 30) and displays a “crypto-heist” at the Bank Of England, carried out by characters suited up in costumes from the TV show Money Heist.

Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs: Legion is adding a playable assassin in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed crossover event.Watch Dogs: Legion is hosting an Assassin’s Creed crossover that begins on August 24. All players will be able to enjoy two new story missions for free, as well as a few world events.

Ubisoft narrative writer Simon Ducharme has shared his immense pride at being able to help introduce the first transgender operator in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.Speaking via his own personal Twitter account, Ducharme shared how “incredibly proud” he is to help bring new character Osa to the game.“So here it is. Osa is a trans woman, and I’m incredibly proud.

Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege is getting changes to its competitive ladder to encourage players to progress further.Talking to PCGamesN, a source at Ubisoft has said that the team had noticed a trend where players would reach platinum rank but wouldn’t continue to earn diamond. To help encourage players to bridge this gap, Ubisoft will reduce the gap between ranks within the platinum tier.

Riders Republic, the open-world sports game from Ubisoft, will launch later this month on August 23.Available for two days, the Riders Republic beta will run from August 23 to August 25 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S and gives players the chance to get to grips with Ubisoft’s newest sports title.Anyone interested can sign up for the Riders Republic beta via the official website.“The Riders Republic Beta will give players a first glimpse of three careers such as Bike Races, Snow Tricks and Air Sports (Rocketwing & wingsuit),” reads the official press release.The Riders Republic beta will include:The Riders Republic beta will be available to preload from August 21 and gives players two days to check out what this interesting

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.

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 its future games on Steam again.“We’re happy to see Steam Deck coming to the industry, it shows that it continues a flow of very innovative new hardware coming to the market,” he said.“So we will look and see how big it becomes, but if it’s big we

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 are picked, which figures into the changes as Tachanka “has a very low presence in the Balancing Matrix” according to the post.The changes being made to Tachanka see him get a deployable shield added to his kit, as well as increasing the ammo that he