Just one week after the record-breaking launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 helped kickstart the holiday shopping season, Ubisoft plans to release Assassin’s Creed 2 on Tuesday at midnight.
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Assassin’s Creed 2 to be Released Tuesday at Midnight
Ubisoft Acquires Hybride
Games creation company Ubisoft has announced that it’s acquired visual effects company Hybride Technologies, the Canadian company that added visual effects to movies like 300, Sin City and the Spy Kids series.
Ubisoft plans to share technology to up the quality of effects for games and, through Hybride, to hopefully brings its intellectual properties to the screen.
Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft’s CEO, said:
“The acquisition of Hybride falls directly into the strategy that has already led us to open in digital creation studio in Montreal and to acquire the Tom Clancy brand for video games and ancillary products. The exception quality of the team at Hybride and the expertise of our Ubisoft teams will allow us to create one of the best 3D animation studios in the animation industry.”
Ubisoft Goes for War World…and Girls
Game publisher Ubisoft has announced it’s bringing its 3rd person shooter War World to Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade. Scheduled to be available “later this summer”—c’mon folks, there’s more than one hemisphere—War World hopes to redefine thenotion of an “arcade shooter” by combining tactical game play, fast action, and next-generation visual effects. In the game, players take on the roles of one of 10 “mechanoids” (think two-leggedbattle robots), each with their own unique strengths, and take them on a string of havoc and mayhem in a 100-level single-player campaign. Or, if that’s not challenging enough, War Worldwill also offer a four different multiplayer games through Xbox Live, supporting up to 8 players. War World is rated T for “Teen” by the ESRB, but neither Microsoft nor Ubisoft havereleased any pricing infomation.
And on an utterly different note, Ubisoft also announced at this week’s E3 conference in Santa Monica that it plans to launch a new line of video games specifically intended for girls aged 6 to 14, after conducting “extensive lifestyle research” into that audience. Video games specifically aimed at girls have so far failed to make serious dent in the traditionally male-dominated, shoot-and-blow-things-up world of video gaming, although there have been some noteworthy efforts from Sierra and other publishers.
Ubisoft Gets Lost Gaming License
Ubisoft and Touchstone Television today announced plans to develop and publish a video game based on the popular television series Lost. The game will debut sometime in 2007 for home and portable consoles as well as the PC.
The game will be developed by Ubisoft’s Montreal studio. No other details were released.
“Many of us on Lost have been hardcore gamers for years and the chance to work with Ubisoft, a company behind some of our favorite titles, has excited us to no end,” said Lost executive producer Bryan Burk, in a statement. “With the ability to tell new interactive stories within the Lost universe, we’re giddy to be developing a game that, once completed, will be as engaging and fun to play as it is to create.”
Ubisoft Wants to Haze You
Ubisoft and video game developer Free Radical, known for their work on the TimeSplitter series, yesterday at E3 announced the development of a new first person shooter called Haze which is scheduled for an early 2007 release. Platforms which it is being developed for include the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC.
The storyline of Haze, said the two companies, is set twenty five years in the future and finds governments having sourced out their military operations to private corporations. Players take on the role of Jake Carpenter, a new soldier in the private Mantel army dispatched to a South American country to help put down a rebellion which isn’t quite what it seems. Features of the game include “stunning visuals, hyper-intelligent AI and realistic physics†as well as advanced, destructive weaponry and a variety of multiplayer modes.
Ubisoft Announces Assassin’s Creed
Montreal video game maker Ubisoft announced today that its developing a wholly original video game franchise under the name Assassin’s Creed or the Playstation 3.
The first game in the Assassin’s Creed series will be set in the year 1191 AD, during the Third Crusade. Players will take on the role of Altair and will have the power to “throw their immediate environment into chaos” and influence historical evens. The game will be shown at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles and will be released to consumer in 2007. Ubisoft is describing the game as an “epic experience,” offering new forms of play, superb graphics, and an engrossing storyline.
Ubisoft Details Nintendo Revolution Title
Video game publisher Ubisoft on Monday announced they were developing a new first person action title for Nintendo’s next generation console Revolution. Called Red Steel, the game will make its worldwide debut in May at E3 in Los Angeles.
Red Steel, said Ubisoft, is set in modern day Japan and will require players to “master both the ancient art of the katana and the sophisticated technology of modern firearms†as they engage in gameplay “with the style and flair of a contemporary action movieâ€. Ubisoft will disclose more information about the game, which makes extensive use of the Nintendo Revolution’s controller, in the coming months.
Blazing Angels Clears Runway
Ubisoft yesterday announced their highly anticipated WWII squadron-based flight action game Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII had been released and was due to appear in stores this week. The title will be available for the Xbox, Xbox 360 and PC.
In Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII, said Ubisoft, players will take part in some of the most famous air battles of World War II as they fly up to 38 WWII aircraft in both single player and multiplayer missions. During the course of the 18-mission campaign, players will evolve along with their wingmen as they fly through battle sites such as England, Germany, France, Morocco, Pearl Harbor, Midway and Tokyo. The storyline of the game will follow the evolution of a single squadron with a
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