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Unconfirmed title Red Steel 3 will supposedly use Nintendoâ??s upcoming peripheral

Ubisoft hopes this summer’s World Cup will help it crack the ‘polarised’ football game genre. The publisher will launch Pure Football for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in May, which is fronted by former England captain Steven Gerrard. And Ubisoft brand manager Phil Brannelly believes that the association with Gerrard …

Hackers have reportedly found a way to circumvent Ubisoft’s controversial PC DRM that requires users maintain a constant internet connection even when playing single-player games. CNET reports that a host of modified executable files for a number of Ubisoft titles have appeared on multiple peer-to-peer networks online. When used with …

Ubisoft’s Just Dance won two key prizes at last night’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards. The game took home New Games Brand and Sales Triumph. Not bad for a game that only hit retail just over three months ago. Just Dance has been No.1 in the UK five times this year, …

In a move that will strike horror into the aged games collector but most likely mean very little to younger games fans, publisher Ubisoft has announced that it is to ditch paper instruction manuals for its Xbox 360 and PS3 games from this autumn. The fingering of a game manual …

A PR event for Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Conviction has hugely backfired in New Zealand after members of the public believed that a man with a gun was on the run. Organised on behalf of Monaco Corporation, the stunt saw an actor with bandaged hands threatened 20 onlookers drinking outside a …

After a longer than hoped absence from the global games market, the return of the Splinter Cell series has seen the latest release, the Xbox 360 only Conviction, debut at the top of the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. In doing so Splinter Cell delivers publisher Ubisoft its …

Hands up those who predicted Just Dance would be a multimillion seller? No-one? Thought so. Ubisoft’s game keeps proving everyone wrong, though, and now it’s passed a major sales milestone in the US. Industry Gamers reports that Just Dance has now sold over 1m copies in the region, setting it …

Just Dance continues to define how successful a surprise smash can be – and Ubisoft is already working on its next toe-tapping best-seller. Dance on Broadway will arrive on Wii on June 25th. The game will offer Just Dance fans a more theatrical take on music games. Although not a …

Assassin’s Creed II has been awarded a Guinness World Record – for the most number of magazine covers scored by a single game. According to publisher Ubisoft, and verified by Guinness itself, the game was used as the lead story in 127 different publications in 32 countries, between April 2009 …