Ubisoft is in a great position to enter the next-generation with all guns firing. Given that most of their upcoming titles have release dates on or within the release window of the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series, these games will surely be getting some serious mileage in a somewhat thin release lineup for both next-gen consoles.
Earlier today, Ubisoft had released more information about their current and upcoming games, with specific detail as to how each title will run on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Twitter user Shinobi602 has thankfully compiled each one into an easy to read format.
Simply put, almost all of Ubisoft’s titles will be playing at an eye watering 4K 60fps setting, save for Watch Dogs: Legion, which will run at 30fps with Ray Tracing. It could very well be possible that a future option to hit 60fps but disable Ray Tracing is implemented in a patch, so we wouldn’t discount this possibility.
That said, if you’re looking for some eye candy, then the next-gen consoles should be the way to go, if it wasn’t obvious yet. Otherwise, your current-gen consoles will still provide an immersive experience that is still serviceable.
Watch Dogs: Legion is launching just a few days from now, October 29 to be exact, and with it, a Platinum trophy that’s just begging to be acquired.
Game tracker site Exophase has listed all the trophies for the upcoming game and it seems to be an easy, but somewhat time consuming path to the platinum. Based on the conditions, you may need to do some traveling around London, but none are tied to ridiculously tough requests.
Warning – mild spoiler alert, you have been warned
Check out the full list of trophies for Watch Dogs: Legion below:
Completionist – Get all other Trophies
Brave New World – Complete “Operation Westminster”
The Future Is Bright – Complete the 404 Storyline
Long Live The Queen – Complete the Kelley Storyline
Hacker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – Complete the SIRS Storyline
When Good Men Do Nothing – Complete the Albion Storyline
Divided We Fall – Complete the DedSec Storyline
The One That Got Away – Complete “Finding Bagley”
In The Nick of Time – Complete “Change of Heart”
A Roof Over Your Head – Complete “Royal Treatment”
England For Everyone – Complete “Parks and Reclamation”
A Dish Best Served Cold – Complete a Revenge Mission
Making Friends – Recruit an Operative after completing “Reporting For Duty”
Rise Up – Turn one borough into Defiant state
Take Back London – Turn all the boroughs into Defiant state
And Stay Down – Defeat a DedSec Adversary
Every Walk of Life – Have a team of 20 Operatives with different occupations
Meta-Gaming – Recruit a Video Game Designer
Down To The Wire – Perform 5 stealth takedowns with a Professional Hitman
Death From Above – Kill 5 Albion guards using Dive Bomb
NO NOT THE BEES – Neutralize 10 Albion guards using Bee Swarms
Hack The Planet – Propagate a hack across 8 targets at once
Shaken Not Stirred – Disable weapons of 5 Albion guards at once using the Spy Watch Gadget
Power To The People – Have your followers neutralize a total of 3 Albion guards
Paint Me Like One of Your… – Stun Clan Kelley members 5 times with paintball gun headshots
Throw The Book At Them – Perform 5 arrest takedowns
The Royal Tour – Enter Buckingham Palace’s restricted area disguised as a Royal Guard
You Don’t See Me! – Escape a Pursuit Level 5 doing a Statue Emote
Could’ve Made National – Complete Kick up challenge intermediate
Bullseye – Complete a Darts game in every Darts location
Piece de Resistance – Complete a Paste Up in every Paste Up location
Bottom’s Up – Drink at least once in every Drink location
DedSec Delivery – Complete 20 Parcel Fox Delivery Missions
All About Aesthetic – Buy a Weapon Skin
Re-Wrap My Whip – Buy a Vehicle Paint
Fresh Threads – Spend 100 000 ETO on Clothes in shops
Fully Kitted – Unlock all Upgrades
Locked And Loaded – Purchase all the upgrades for every weapon
Oral History – Collect 50 Audio Logs
Magpie – Collect 15 Relics
We’re currently playing the game and we can’t wait for you to read up on our review to see if the game is a “Buy it”, “Wait for it”, or “Ignore it”.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is one of Ubisoft’s biggest titles to close out the year. Even back when it was revealed with the help of BossLogic, the campaigns for Valhalla have been big and bombastic. Now, Ubisoft and Reebok have announced a partnership to bring fans a capsule collection worthy of Eivor and the Vikings.
The bespoke collection is headlined by three footwear styles in exclusive colorways inspired by the northern lights:
First up is the Zig Kinetica, which is inspired by the deep black of the Nordic night and the northern lights and features a black molded-mesh upper, built around its distinctive zigzag-shaped, energy-return sole in emerald sea. Nodding to the Viking Lifestyle, the model features the symbol for Synin, a raven that represents a major feature of Norse mythology, and helps key character Eivor on his journey.
The Club C Revenge features a soft suede tan upper with emerald sea and black hits throughout. On the heel, the silhouette features a twin battle ax symbol, the epitome of Norse versatility and one of the most iconic Viking symbols.
Last, the Classic Leather Legacy comes with a cold grey upper and highlights in both emerald sea and emerald haze. The embossed raven symbol on the heel this detail speaks once more to the deep meaning of these creatures for the Vikings.
The collection will be available exclusively on the Reebok website starting November 7 and in select retail stores from November 11. Local availability is not known as of writing.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is scheduled to release on November 10 across current and next-gen consoles.
Ubisoft Club and Uplay will soon be snapped out of existence but will take the form of Ubisoft Connect, the new all in one hub that will allow for easier access to Ubisoft services. More importantly, it will also allow for cross-play and cross-saves across platforms.
The company made the announcement through various social media channels and via an FAQ, describing Connect as “ecosystem of players services for all Ubisoft games across all platforms. It is the unification and improvement of Ubisoft Club, our loyalty program, and Uplay, our Desktop App, across all platforms.”
Connect will officially launch on October 29 alongside Watch Dogs Legion and will be implementing a simple system where each player will have a Connect account that has levels, and the more you play supported titles and complete challenges, you’ll earn XP and gain access to rewards.
Sounds pretty simple and easy, and although similar to how it was previously, the one big thing about Connect is how it is pushing cross-play and cross-saves between platforms, allowing players to play and pick up where they left off regardless of the platform they play on. There will be certain titles that will take advantage of this feature for now but expect the new titles like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Immortals Fenyx Rising to be part of the list, among others.
Best thing about it? It’s free, and all you will have to do is sign up for a Connect account, if you haven’t already from Club or Uplay.
For more information about Connect, you can visit the official website.
If there’s anything about the previous Assassin’s Creed games, it’s that there is a TON of content to burn through, whether it be in the base game of through DLC’s. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will be no different, as Ubisoft has revealed its post-launch and season pass plans for the game, which include 2 expansions via the Season Pass and 4 free DLC’s.
In Spring 2021, the first expansion called “Wrath of the Druids” will take players on a journey to Ireland and unravel the mysteries of an ancient and mysterious druidic cult, tracking and discovering their members.
Scheduled in Summer 2021 will be “The Siege of Paris”, which will give players the chance to relive the most ambitious battle in Viking History with key historical figures of war-torn Frankia. During this key moment in history, players will infiltrate the fortified city of Paris and the River Seine under a prolonged siege, uncover enemy secrets, and form strategic alliances to safeguard their clan’s future..
Of course, if you’ve purchased either the Gold, Ultimate, or Collector’s edition of the game, then you’ll gain access to the Season Pass automatically as it will be included in the package that also includes “The Legend of Beowulf” quest, where players will uncover the monstrous truth behind the legend of Beowulf.
Don’t really care about the Season pass at all? Got you covered, as seasonal content updates spanning three months each will be accessible to all players, with the first event being available in late 2020.
Season 1 will launch in December 2020 with the following content planned:
A new settlement area, allowing players to continue to grow and evolve their settlement.
A traditional Viking Festival: the Yule Festival, for players to experience in their settlement.
A new game mode: the River Raids. Building on Valhalla’s core raiding mechanic the mode will deliver a dynamic, challenging and highly replayable raid experience.
The addition of the Ranks for Jomsviking: in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla players can not only create their lieutenant to be part of their raiding crew, but also recruit some from their friends and the community. In Season 1, players will see an update to the Jomsviking feature which will allow their Jomsviking to earn XP and rank up – the higher will be the rank of the lieutenant, the more silver players will earn when recruited by other players.
Finally, as for each season, Season 1 will also come with new player skills and abilities, weapons and gear, and cosmetic items for the settlement, longship, horse and raven.
Season 2 will launch in March 2021 with a new game mode that builds on Valhalla’s core combat experiences, a new Jomsviking update, festivals in the Settlement, new gear and cosmetic items, and more. More information about Season 3 and 4 will be come at a later time.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is scheduled to release on November 10 across current and next-gen consoles.
Valhalla Awaits! Ahead of its launch on November 10, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla has gone gold, which only means that there won’t be anymore delays and players can expect the latest in the long-running franchise to come right beside the launch of the next-gen systems.
We're extremely proud to share that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has gone gold! 🎺
On behalf of everyone working on the game, we can't wait to see how your own Viking saga unfolds.
Based on what we’ve seen so far for Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, it seems like a familiar game in the vein of Origins and Odyssey but Ubisoft have made some substantial changes to make it stand as its own game with its own identity. Fans of the series should definitely be excited next month.
Are you picking up Valhalla when it launches? Will you be getting the next-gen versions instead?
While the current-gen versions of Just Dance 2021 is scheduled to release on November 12, Ubisoft has announced that PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series fans won’t have to wait too long because the next-gen version will be releasing on November 24, with a free next-gen upgrade for early adopters of the game.
Just Dance 2021 offers players even more ways to dance, the game features 40 hot new songs, the new Quickplay mode and the improved World Dance Floor. Players will also enjoy the return of favorite Just Dance game modes, including Kids Mode, co-op and Just Dance Unlimited.
Just last month, 9 new tracks have been revealed for the game, featuring songs like Blinding Lights by the Weeknd, Without Me by Eminem, and Till the World Ends by the Girly Team.
Watch Dogs: Legion is set to release later this month and as part of Ubisoft’s post-launch roadmap for the game, an online multiplayer mode will be available on December 3 as part of a free game update for all players.
The following features will be part of the free update in December:
Free-roam open-world co-op where players can team up with their friends for up to four-player co-op and explore the city of London and participate in side activities
New co-op missions for two-to-four players using new co-op gameplay mechanics and giving players the opportunity to recruit the perfect team
Four-player co-op Tactical Ops missions which will require teamwork and efficiency
The first available Player-vs-Player (PvP) mode, Spiderbot Arena, where four-to-eight players control armed spiderbots and compete in a high intensity free-for-all deathmatch
Come 2021, more free single-player content will be made available such as new characters with new abilities, new missions, and a new game plus.
Watch Dogs: Legion – Bloodline was also announced, which is a story expansion that will give players access to a new storyline which includes Aiden Pearce and Wrench from the previous Watch Dogs titles. Additionally, 2 other characters will be included in Bloodline, as unveiled just recently:
Darcy, a member of the Assassin Order, thanks to a cross-over with Assassin’s Creed
Mina, a subject of transhuman experiments, who possesses the ability to mind control individuals
Watch Dogs: Legion will release on October 29, 2020 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Xbox Series versions will launch on November 10 and digitally on the PlayStation 5 on November 12, with the physical version to follow on November 24.
Incoming Ubisoft titles Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and Watch Dogs: Legion are now available for pre-orders at your nearest local retailers.
DataBlitz was the first to break the news this morning, posting on social media that all editions across both titles will be available for pre-orders. We expect other retailers like Game One Ph, GameXtreme, and Gameline to do the same soon.
Limited, Gold, Ultimate, and the Collectors Edition for Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla will be available, and you can see the contents of each edition below (Taken from Datablitz)
Limited Edition includes: • Copy of the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla game • Digital Contents (Berserket Settlement Pack, Hati Wolf Mount, Set of Runes)
Gold Edition includes: • Copy of the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla game • The Season Pass Get
Ultimate Edition includes: • Copy of the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla game • The Season Pass • The Ultimate Pack (Berserker Gear Pack, Berserker Longship Pack, Berserker Settlement Pack, Set of Runes)
Collector’s Edition includes: • Copy of the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla game • The Season Pass • The Ultimate Pack (Berserker Gear Pack, Berserker Longship Pack, Berserker Settlement Pack, Set of Runes) • Ubicollectibles® replica of Eivor and her Drakkar (height: 30cm) • Collector’s Case • Exclusive Steelbook • Viking Statuette of Eivor • Premium Certificate of Authenticity • Three Lithographs • Selected Soundtrack of the Game
Resistance, Gold, Ultimate, and Collector’s Edition of Watch Dogs: Legion is also available, with the contents of each detailed below:
Resistance Edition includes: • Copy of the Watch Dogs: Legion game • Digital Content – The Resistant Pack: unlock Lynx, a new hacker character with an animal-inspired mask and outfit, and receive one week of VIP status to help you earn in-game currency faster.
Gold Edition includes: • Copy of the Watch Dogs: Legion game • Digital Content: Season Pass (Includes two major story expansions, four unique playable heroes, three extra DedSec missions, DedSec car skin, and the original Watch Dogs: Complete Edition game)
Ultimate Edition includes: • Copy of the Watch Dogs: Legion game • Digital Content: Season Pass (Includes two major story expansions, four unique playable heroes, three extra DedSec missions, DedSec car skin, and the original Watch Dogs: Complete Edition game) • Ultimate Pack (Includes Urban Jungle pack, 4 weeks of VIP status, and the London Dissident Pack)
Collector’s Edition includes: • Ded Coronet Mask Replica • Ultimate Edition of Watch Dogs: Legion • Steelbook • Double-sided propaganda poster • A set of three exclusive stickers • Digital Content: Season Pass (Includes two major story expansions, four unique playable heroes, three extra DedSec missions, DedSec car skin, and the original Watch Dogs: Complete Edition game) • Ultimate Pack (Includes Urban Jungle pack, 4 weeks of VIP status, and the London Dissident Pack)
You can pre-order both titles via the links below:
Next-gen versions of both titles are included in the launch lineup for both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Current-gen versions of both titles will not change release dates, and will remain at November 10 and October 29 for Valhalla and Legion respectively.
Ubisoft announces a new massive multiplayer outdoors playground entitled Riders Republic which will release on February 25, 2021 for the PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series, and PC.
Riders Republic was developed by Ubisoft Annecy and is a social playground where players can experience the thrill of extreme sports in open and densely populated world. Among these sports include biking, skiing, snowboarding, wing suiting, and rocket wing suiting.
Players can do these variety of extreme sports in a variety of destinations like American National Parks like Bryce Canyon, Yosemite Valley, Sequoia Park, Zion, Canyonlands, Mammoth Mountain, and Grand Teton.
There’s also a variety of multiplayer modes that can be played with a squad. These include:
Competitive Races and Trick Challenges with PvP and solo modes
Mass Starts – Frantic 50-player races
Multiplayer Arenas – a mode with 6v6 PvP matchups
Online cups – a mode to show off and show out to make it to the top of the leaderboard
The game also has a career mode wherein players can make a pave their way in the different sports, rise to the top of the leaderboard, and sign with sponsors. Riders can be customized through progression-based gear.
A Gold Edition and Ultimate Edition will be available for pre-order. Gold Edition will include the base game, Year 1 Pass, exotic kits, the BMX Sport add-on, and exclusive content. Ultimate Edition, on the other hand, includes the Year 1 Pass and four exclusive cosmetic packs: Cosmic, Rainbow, Neon and Skull’n Style. In addition to this, It includes 20 Helicopter tickets to reach summits faster.
Riders Republic will release on February 25, 2021 for the PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series, and PC, with free upgrades given to those who purchase the current generation version of the game.
Ubisoft has just announced a new PVE game mode dubbed “The Summit” for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Warlords of New York. The new mode is part of Title Update 11 which will go live on September 22.
The Summit will take Division Agents to a high-rise building where players can scale up to 100 floors of action. Here you’ll face different challenges and enemies on each floor. The ultimate goal is to reach the rooftop where a special battle awaits. There are Rally Points (permanent checkpoints) so players can choose to focus on certain sections of the building.
Season 3 will also be introduced as part of Title Update 11. It will bring a new manhunt and major improvements for its core features. Players will target Bardon Schaeffer, the leader of the Black Tusk as he recruits four disavowed agents to form and lead a new rogue cell.
Some of the major improvements include the introduction of Appearance Mods or Transmogrification, improved Rainbow loot, and Agnostic Mod Slots.
The Summit and Season 3 are available for Warlords of New York owners but the improvements to the game will available for all players.
While Assassin’s Creed fans won’t have to wait any longer for a new title, Splinter Cell fans should be excited for the next game in the series and it is coming out on… the Oculus VR.
That’s right, we’re getting a new Splinter Cell game after all, but not on traditional console systems like we usually do.
This comes from an announcement by Ubisoft and Oculus VR during the Oculus Connect Virtual Event and will be an Oculus VR exclusive. Nibel likewise reports this.
Ubisoft’s Red Storm Entertainment is leading the development for these 2 titles in partnership with Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Mumbai, and Ubisoft Reflections.
No other specific like launch date and retail price have been given, so we’ll have to wait to hear more news on these titles.
Ubisoft has just announced nine new tracks that people can dance to in Just Dance 2021, including the likes of ‘Blinding Lights’ by the Weeknd and ‘Without Me’ by Eminem.
Coming from their initial song list that saw ‘All the good girls go to hell’ by Billie Eilish and ‘Feel Special’ by Twice, Just Dance 2021 is bringing in more tracks to liven up the mood.
These songs include:
Blinding Lights by the Weeknd
Without Me by Eminem
Till the World Ends by the Girly Team
The Weekend by Michael Gray
Samba de Janeiro by Ultraclub 90
Runaway (U & I) by Galantis
Bailando by Paradisio ft. Dj Patrick Samoy
Dibby Dibby Sound by DJ Fresh & Jay Fay ft. Ms Dynamite
Boy You Can Keep It by Alex Newell
Players with a Just Dance Unlimited subscription or an active trial period can try out ‘Without Me’ by Eminem via Just Dance 2020 for a week.
The company also has just launched Season 4 of Just Dance 2020, It’s Showtime. The new season reveals a world inspired by Broadway and musicals. It’s Showtime will debut two events: The Party which happens until September 24 and The Gala which runs from October 15 – November 5. The event are available for all Just Dance 2020 owners on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One devices, and PlayStation 4.
Just Dance 2021 will be released on November 12, 2020 for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, as well as Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake was arguably the biggest announcement by Ubisoft during their recent showcase. Unfortunately, prior to the actual show, the game had already been leaked, stirring a number of reactions that didn’t go too well for the title, despite being a critically acclaimed classic.
Most of the feedback about the game was about the visuals, which was not quite up to par with expectations from a lot of people, looking a bit “dated” and not what was expected of a remake but more of a remaster.
In a interview with The Mako Reactor, Ubisoft India talked about some of the challenges of remaking the game as well as the visual direction of the game and why it looked the way it does.
Game Director Pierre Sylvain-Gires discussed that the game engine that they used, the Anvil engine, which is used for Assassin’s Creed games, isn’t really the best for this type of linear title. “The principle of the rewind is a headache technically. The Anvil engine was not made at all to do rewind, to do slow motion, to do all those time manipulation. The tech approach was a challenge.”
Sylvain-Gires goes on to say that “If you take the game that was made 17 years ago, there’s definitely room for improvement in terms of graphism and we really wanted to give a unique look to the game because Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is actually is a fantasy story – the narration, the 40 different levels you have to go through to finish the game are an immersion into the Thief of Baghdad and all these magical environments. So we decided to go for a unique visual treatment to make this game standout from other games. It’s not another Assassin’s Creed, it’s not like the same Prince of Persia from 2008. It has to be unique. This magic, this fantasy is shown through the saturation, through the light, so it also a challenge to redefine the visual identity of the game with this remake.”
It’s not quite the answer the fans are looking for, but it does give a bit of insight as to the challenges that they encountered.
With that said, Deputy Managing Director Syed Abbas reiterated that it was not a matter of timeline or budget problems, saying that “…quality is of the utmost importance and this is something that we have kept in mind from the start. The project has been in development for the last two and a half years. We have had at peak 170 members working on this project and not to mention other investments in infrastructure and set up to make a modern game. No there have not been any cutback in budget or timeline for the game.”
One note many may have missed is that the trailer that was shown is from an Alpha build of the game, meaning the final product should show major improvements by the time it is released next year. In fact, by the time Ubisoft is ready to show another update of the game, we can expect it to look like every inch of the remake we know they are capable of.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a remake of the original 2003 critically acclaimed classic and is scheduled to release on January 21 on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC and will retail for $39.99 or around PHP2,000.
Aiden Pearce, the lead character from the first Watch Dogs game, will be making an appearance in Watch Dogs: Legion, as revealed during the Ubisoft Forward presentation earlier today.
Aiden Pearce will be a fully playable character with his own dedicated story arc as part of the DLC, which is included in the Season Pass as part of the Gold, Ultimate and Collector editions of the game.
Check out the teaser trailer below:
More Watch Dogs: Legion post-launch information will be coming from Ubisoft in the coming weeks but for now, we can take a peek at how recruitment works in the game, as it will be integral to your success.
As a member of DedSec, players will be going up against criminal opportunists in Watch Dogs: Legion; sadists, mercenaries, cybercriminals, and more; they’ll have to be prepared for a variety of situations. Players must recruit members into their DedSec Resistance to take on these criminal opportunists, liberate London and uncover the identity of Zero-Day.
Scheduled to launch on October 29 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, Watch Dogs: Legion will give existing current gen users a free next-gen upgrade free of charge and will be a launch title for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
