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Ubisoft's upcoming AAA titles Assassin's Creed Unity, Far Cry 4 and The Crew won't be available on Steam in the UK when they launch over the next few weeks. The reasoning for this isn't exactly clear, with Ubisoft simply stating that gamers in the UK will be able to buy …

UPDATE: These specifications have now been confirmed via an Ubisoft blog post. The AMD R9 290x recommended specification wasn't a mistake after all- suggesting that the game might have some optimization issues with AMD GPUs at launch.  Original story: The Far Cry 4 PC system requirements have supposedly been spotted and …

Nvidia Corp. on Tuesday said it has partnered with Ubisoft and will provide a video game of choice for free to those, who buy new GeForce GTX 780- and 900-series graphics cards from eligible suppliers and retailers. The new “Pick Your Path” promotion will attract even more attention to Nvidia’s …

While Ubisoft has been at the center of much controversy lately, in no small part due to Assassin Creed Unity's high PC system requirements, the publisher's upcoming racer, The Crew, seems to have a much more reasonable spec list. While the game will only support 64-bit operating systems, it does …

Update: Ubisoft has since confirmed that PC owners wanting to play Assassin's Creed Unity should have at least a GTX 680/ Radeon HD 7970 GPU and an Intel Core i5 2500K/ AMD FX-8350 CPU. a 64-bit OS is also required. Also, laptop GPUs aren't “officially supported”.  It is still recommended that you …

In the recent months Ubisoft and some other video game developers have received a lot of criticism for decisions to lock their games at 30 frames per second on all platforms. During a recent question and answer session with students in a college a game architect from Ubisoft implied that …

Upcoming open world racing title, The Crew, has been delayed again, being pushed back until the 2nd of December. However, the extra time is being used to remove the 30 frames per second lock on the PC version of the game, allowing PC players to get the full experience. As …

Apparently, upcoming team based shooter, Rainbow Six: Siege, will run at a smooth 60 frames per second on the PC, Xbox One and PS4 when it launches next year. However, while this is good news for now, it may still be too early on to confirm frame rates for both …

Ubisoft has denied claims that Assassin's Creed: Unity was intentionally downgraded in order to achieve visual and performance parity between the Xbox One and Playstation 4. Earlier this week it was announced that the game would run at 900p and 30 frames per second on both new consoles, despite the …

Ubisoft came under fire again this week after it was revealed that Assassin's Creed Unity would run at the same sub 1080p resolution and frame rate on both the Xbox One and PS4 in order to ‘avoid debates'. Since then, developers behind the game have been trying to put a …

It is always worth shopping around for a decent deal when it comes to buying PC peripherals- headsets included. Roccat has teamed up with Ubisoft in order to bundle a free copy of Assassin's Creed Unity with its Kave XTD 5.1 Gaming headset exclusively in the UK. The Roccat Kave XTD …

It might have been almost a year since Rockstar released GTA V with its multiplayer mayhem simulator, GTA Online, but even though it's had plenty of DLC to keep things fresh, the oft-promised cooperative heists still have yet to make it into the game. Assassin's Creed Unity on the other …

Ubisoft appears to be so confident in its Assassin's Creed franchise that it would be “unimaginable” to ever let its quality drop and according to AC: Unity Director, Alex Amancio, the dev team has the process “down to a science”. During an interview, Amancio said that they key to the franchise's success …

You can now hack things in Grand Theft Auto IV, thanks to a new mod that transforms the game in to Watch Dogs. The mod is available now and lets Nico Bellic take on the Aiden Pearce persona. Players can hack in to pay phones, cash machines, ticket machines, wall …

In a slightly disappointing turn of events it seems that Ubisoft has imposed a 30 frames per second lock on The Crew beta, which launched today on PC and will end on Friday. Much like Need for Speed Rivals, the frame rate cap can be bumped up to 60 via a …

Nintendo made an interesting decision lately, to add Mercedes Benz cars to its Mario Kart 8 racer via a free DLC pack, presumably though some sort of joint promotion. Clearly someone at Ubisoft thought this was dumb, as the official twitter account of the publisher informed the world so, before the message …

The Xbox One and Playstation 4 are both selling very well, having shipped 15 million units combined in just nine months. However, there is a downside, this does mean that the last generation consoles are becoming less and less relevant to publishers despite the 150 million people that still own them. …

Following on from last night's report that Ubisoft wants to take PC gaming ‘more seriously', it has been revealed that Assassin's Creed Unity will contain Micro-Transactions for those who would rather pay for progress than play the game. Assassin's Creed IV had a similar option, users could buy ‘DLC' resource …

Apparently, Ubisoft finally wants to patch things up with PC gamers and take the platform ‘more seriously'. The change of heart comes down to the fact that PC gaming is continuing to rise, despite the release of the Playstation 4 and Xbox One. Speaking with MCV at Gamescom, European Ubisoft …

Ubisoft is very busy at the moment. Not only does it have two Assassin's Creed titles landing this year and a new Far Cry and The Crew following shortly after, it's also set to  publish Toy Soldiers: War Chest, an RTS, tower defence, shooter title from Signal Studios, which you …

It looks like Watch Dogs is set to get a new playable city as Ubisoft is teasing some upcoming DLC on Twitter. The Watch Dogs Twitter account sent out a picture saying “The City of Camden had the highest crime rate in the US in 2012. A 24/7 surveillance program …

What do you know guys, just under two months since that whole kerfuffle with Ubisoft not including playable female characters in the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Unity, and here we have a new trailer showing an important female character: the templar, Elise. She's not playable, but she does have her own figurine. …

The final and stable version of The Worse Mod has been released, allowing those of you that still have Watch Dogs installed to experience the game with its original E3 graphical settings along with increased NPC density and performance improvements. The mod was revealed shortly after Watch Dogs was released, …

It looks like Ubisoft's investment in Watch Dogs is paying off as the publisher has confirmed some highly impressive sales figures. While Watch Dogs isn't the fastest or highest selling game in the world, it has managed to shift 8 million units in just six weeks, which is very good- …

Have gamers finally accepted DLC? According to Ubisoft we have. Talking to Games Industry, Ubisoft’s Vice President of Digital Publishing, Chris Early, explained that modern gamers are apparently comfortable with amount of digital content developers provide, using Assassin Creed IV's ‘Time Saver' DLC as an example. Assassin Creed IV's time saver …

If you thought Watchdogs' pre-release sales were ridiculous, with its countless versions and pre-order bonsues, clearly Ubisoft didn't see things the same way, as it's taken pre-release extras to a whole new level with Assassin's Creed Unity: a weekly lottery where you can win real prizes, but only if you've …

We've already seen first hand that Ubisoft had downgraded the PC graphics for Watch Dogs, the publisher is also claiming that Far Cry 4 on the PS4 and Xbox One will look the same as the PC's ultra high settings. However, now we have some information suggesting that The Division …

Far Cry 4 is expected to be one of the best-looking video games ever made, judging by the trailers that Ubisoft published earlier this month. What is somewhat surprising is that according to a representative of the game developer, the game will look equally good on all modern platforms, including …

Yesterday we reported on GOG.com's thoughts on DRM and how the industry needs to move away from it. Today in the aftermath of that discussion, Ubisoft has admitted that DRM doesn't actually prevent piracy and thinks that more companies should focus on making games that people want to pay for …

Earlier this week we found out that Watch Dogs had its E3 graphical effects hidden in the game files. Following from that, The Worse Mod was released, which reincorporates these effects back in to the game. It has taken a few days but Ubisoft has finally released a statement explaining why …