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Game review: Just Dance 2025 Edition (PS5)
Tue, 29th Oct 2024
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Just Dance 2025 Edition offers familiar gameplay with a new smartphone camera feature, yet suffers from limited innovation and reliance on online servers.
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Game review: Star Wars Outlaws (PS5)
Mon, 2nd Sep 2024
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Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws offers stellar space exploration and stunning graphics, but clunky stealth and repetitive missions hamper its full potential. Verdict: 8.0/10.
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Jason Haddix joins Flare as Field Chief Information Security Officer
Fri, 26th Apr 2024
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Cybersecurity veteran Jason Haddix takes reins as Field Chief Information Security Officer at Threat Exposure Management leader, Flare, adding to his illustrious 20-year career.
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Game review: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Xbox Series X)
Mon, 15th Jan 2024
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While we are still waiting for Ubisoft to release a remake based on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the company has finally released a new game in the series in 2024.
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Game review: Assassin’s Creed Mirage (PS5)
Thu, 12th Oct 2023
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Thankfully, Ubisoft must have listened to the feedback because Assassin’s Creed Mirage is a return to its roots.
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Ubisoft cloud-native technology changes how games are created and played
Tue, 22nd Mar 2022
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Ubisoft has unveiled Ubisoft Scalar, a cloud-native technology that the company says will change the way games are made and experienced.
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Game review: Riders Republic (PS5)
Mon, 15th Nov 2021
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This is probably the best extreme sports game to be released in recent years was Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2.
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Game review: Far Cry 6 (Xbox Series X)
Thu, 14th Oct 2021
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Ubisoft's Far Cry 6 offers chaotic gameplay and vehicles, but lacks innovation and impressive graphics, earning it a 7/10.
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Ubisoft's i3D.net moves infrastructure to Equinix for faster online gaming experience
Tue, 5th Oct 2021
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Ubisoft has partnered with Equinix to improve gaming services and reduce latency on its i3D.net infrastructure service and application hosting network.
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Game review: Immortals Fenyx Rising
Mon, 21st Dec 2020
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Immortals Fenyx Rising is a very fun open-world action-adventure game that features some similarities to games like Breath of the Wild and Assassin’s Creed.
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Game review: Watch Dogs: Legion
Thu, 5th Nov 2020
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The Watch Dogs franchise from Ubisoft has had a patchy history ever since the series was first announced at E3 2012.
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Game review: Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Wed, 9th Oct 2019
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This game is meant to be played with teammates as you’ll struggle a lot if you decide to play it all by yourself.
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Ubisoft's Watch Dogs: Legion is gonna create havoc in London
Tue, 11th Jun 2019
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Ubisoft's Watch Dogs: Legion brings chaos to a near-future London, where players can recruit anyone to fight an authoritarian regime. Launching 6th March 2020.
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Hands-on review: Starlink: Battle for Atlas enters the galaxy
Wed, 24th Oct 2018
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Ubisoft revives toys-to-life with Starlink: Battle for Atlas, offering players a pricy yet captivating space adventure reminiscent of No Man's Sky.
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E3 2018: A recap of what Ubisoft showed at its press conference this year
Tue, 12th Jun 2018
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Ubisoft showed a ton of new trailers at E3 2018, although two particular franchises are still sadly missing in action .
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Hands-on impressions with Ubisoft's The Crew 2 online beta
Wed, 6th Jun 2018
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Ubisoft recently staged a closed online beta for its upcoming racer The Crew 2. We got a chance to test drive what the new game has to offer.
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Hands-on review: Fight a deadly cult in Far Cry 5
Wed, 4th Apr 2018
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Ubisoft has now released Far Cry 5 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One and players will have to defend themselves against a very deadly cult!.
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Hands-on review: Assassin's Creed Origins takes us to Egypt
Fri, 3rd Nov 2017
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It's been ten years since Ubisoft introduced us to the first Assassin's Creed. The series now heads to Egypt with Assassin's Creed Origins.
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Hands-on review: South Park: The Fractured but Whole is full of laughs
Fri, 27th Oct 2017
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South Park has been going on since 1997 and the show is still funny. South Park: The Fractured but Whole is the newest game and it doesn't disappoint.
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Assassin's Creed Origins and Far Cry 5 to be playable at Armageddon Expo
Thu, 12th Oct 2017
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Ubisoft has announced that the upcoming Assassin's Creed Origins and Far Cry 5 will be playable later this month at the Armageddon Expo.