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Ubisoft is to release Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2: Legacy Edition for the Xbox 360 in April. As well as including the original game, Legacy Edition will feature an additional DVD incorporating all the GRAW 2 downloadable packs available on Xbox Live, since the game’s original release. The …
Read More »Ubisoft unveils Weight Management game
Ubisoft will publish My Health Coach: Weight Management for Nintendo DS this summer. The game is being developed by Ubisoft’s Montreal studio, with help from a fitness coach and nutritionist. The publisher hopes the game will help tackle the growing obesity problem. The game will feature trivia, hints and tips, …
Read More »Ubisoft nabs Arthur and the Invisibles sequels licenses
Ubisoft and EuropaCorp have entered in an agreement for the development of games based on the sequels to the Arthur and the Minimoys movie (Arthur and the Invisibles in the UK). The French-produced live action CG movie is to see two sequels, Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard in 2009 …
Read More »HMV offers extra Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 content
HMV.co.uk is offering two exclusive weapons for anyone who pre-orders Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. The two guns can be unlocked by using a code. The content is available for the PC, 360 and PS3 versions of the game, and includes the TAR21 Assault Rifle and the M486 Assault Rifle. Vegas …
Read More »Ubisoft to use Fonix tech for EndWars
New voice-controlled Tom Clancy game uses VoiceIn
Read More »Guillemot: Well acquire IP not publishers
Ubisoft may well increase its expansion plans after EA’s bid for Take Two – but is far keener on snapping up established IP than acquiring other publishers. That’s according to a CNN interpretation of a French newspaper interview with Yves Guillemot, who was speaking after EA’s $1.9 billion offer for …
Read More »Haze set for May release
The Free-Radical-developed shooter has been heavily hyped as a key PS3 exclusive, and previously missed its original pre-Christmas release date. After a few extra months of tinkering, Free Radical and Ubisoft will be confident that it will wow critics and retailers alike.
Read More »Ubisoft plans to open studio in Singapore
French firm's 18th internal development team to eventually boast 300 staff and will start work in the summer
Read More »Far Cry 2 devs pleased with PS3 development
Ubisoft Montreal has said that the PS3’s unique architecture has proved a good fit for the technology behind its upcoming Far Cry 2 – though says that it has taken a lot of effort to get used to the machine. "We were somewhat worried by some of the reported high …
Read More »Guillemot: ‘Bring on the media giants’
The world’s biggest media conglomerates will snap up publishers left, right and centre in the coming months – but they would be wasting their time by tapping up Ubisoft. That’s according to Yves Guillemot, who this week told MCV that he was chomping at the bit to take on the …
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