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This Q4 is a new season for racing games, with big titles like Forza Horizon 2, DriveClub, F1 2014 and The Crew hitting the grid. MCV buckles up and hits the gas The lights are green for a new convoy of racing games to hit retail this Q4 – and …
Read More »Reflections: From bedrooms to blockbusters
Newcastle-based developer Reflections turns 30 this year, and its team has come a long way from the days of Destruction Derby and Driver. James Batchelor visited the studio to find out what it has learned along the way
Read More »The Crew delayed; falls back to early December
Ubisoft has announced that The Crew has been delayed, and will be released worldwide on December 2nd. The open-world racer was originally set for launch on November 11th, alongside Halo: The Master Chief Collection and two days before Ubisoft’s pair of Assassin’s Creed games, Unity and Rogue, PES 2015 and …
Read More »The Crew is locked to 30fps on PC, is ‘aiming’ for 60fps
Ubisoft’s rocky relationship with PC gamers looks set to continue. A publisher rep on the company’s forum has confirmed that upcoming racer The Crew will run in 1080p with 30 frames per second on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, and will support up to 5760x1080p on PC for triple …
Read More »Ubisoft picks Havok Physics for next-gen line-up
Rainbow Six, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, The Crew, The Division and more using Havok tech
Read More »Ubisoft explains PS3 no-show for The Crew
The fact that PS3 is built in a very different way to PS4 and Xbox One is the reason for The Crew skipping Sony’s last-gen console. "The Crew was originally built for the new generation of consoles, so when we made the decision to port it to the previous generation, …
Read More »The Crew also in development for Xbox 360
Ubisoft has tasked a separate developer to create a version of upcoming racer The Crew for Xbox 360. The previously announced PS4, Xbox One and PC version is being developed by Ivory Tower and Ubisoft Reflection but this new last-gen version is being created by Asobo Studio with support from …
Read More »Ubisoft Reflections: The Crew is the biggest world we’ve ever worked on
Producer Will Musson tells us more about co-developing Ivory Tower's next-gen open-world racer
Read More »E3 2014: Player tests adding new features to The Crew
Ivory Tower working closely with community on open-world next gen racer
Read More »UBISOFT: The Crew launches in November
Ubisoft’s open world driving game The Crew will launch this Christmas. November 11th to be precise. The game was shown during Ubisoft’s pre-E3 press conference. The game will be available on PS4, Xbox One and PC, and those really eager fans can join the Beta in July.
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