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Might and Magic VI Gets Pirated

If you read that headline thinking some ill mannered computer men got a hold of Might and Magic 6 in a less than legal manner, SURPRISE! Actually what Ubisoft has done is announced some new downloadable content called, Might and Magic: Pirate of the Savage Sea. This will feature Crag Hack (whom many will know from the Shadow of Death game) as a leading character. And along the legendary Barbarian, there will be new artifacts, bonuses and a powerful dynasty weapon. You can...

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Avengers: Battle for Earth Coming To Kinect & Wii U

Following the smash hit Avengers movie Ubisoft is releasing Battle for Earth this holiday for both Kinect and Wii U. Players will be put in the shoes of over 20 of their favorite Marvel characters as they take on The Skrulls in a multitude of game modes including  Co-op, Campaign, Arcade, Challenges, Versus and Tournament. Playing through the Secret Invasion storyline players will be able to utilize the revolutionary controls of both systems to unleash Super Attacks...

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Killer Freaks Turn into Zombies in ZombiU for Wii U

Last year, an interesting Wii U exclusive was debuted by Ubisoft: Killer Freaks from Outer Space.  This game was supposed to be about killing freaks from outer space and using the Wii U GamePad in interesting ways.  As Ubisoft Montpelier, famous for games such as Rayman Origins and From Dust worked on the game, they decided to take a very different direction with it.  This resulted in the creation of the Wii U launch title ZombiU. ZombiU is a first person survival horror...

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Who Had the Best E3 Press Conference? Let’s Let Math Decide

As E3 came and went, many of us are still puzzled as to which company had the best press conference.  I personally have been hearing a mix of people saying it was either Ubisoft, Sony, or Nintendo.  Rather than let my biases for different companies decide the winner, I decided to go a different route for 2012.  I created a grading scale which determined for me who would be the best.  The details of the scale are below, but as you can see, the big points were awarded for...

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All of Your E3 News + Press Conferences in One Spot

Holy Crap, there’s a lot of new coming out! I didn’t say a lot of interesting news, but a lot of news nonetheless. We figured that instead of making you search the site for all your E3 news, we’d do you the favor of putting it all into one post! Below you’ll find all of the articles we’ve posted while covering E3. As more posts are written and published we’ll continue to add them here and update this post. Now with that out of the way...

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Rocksmith Adding the Bass Via DLC

September 4th 2012 Ubisoft will be releasing DLC to add Bass guitar segments to all of their currently available tracks, including all of the DLC tracks that have been released for the game. The DLC itself will be available for $29.99 to download, however new players to the series will have a few options on how they would like to jump into the game. October 16th 2012 the standard edition of the game will ship including the Bass DLC on disc and provides The Real Tone Cable...

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Far Cry 3 Gives Us Shooting, Tribal Women, More Shooting

Yesterday saw some of the first gameplay for Ubisoft’s upcoming sequel Far Cry 3, and, while I used to look down at Far Cry as a series, this has changed my opinion completely. It looks like we’ll be playing Far Cry 3 on our Xbox 360’s, PS3’s, and PC’s this September, and that’s quite a good thing. Judging by this trailer, the island has completely lost all signs civilization, we’ll see our hero looking for escape from the horribly...

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Everything We Know About Ubisoft’s “Watch Dogs”

Last night during Ubisoft’s E3 2012 Press Conference they showed off an amazing looking game called “Watch Dogs,” here’s what we know about it so far: We know that Watch Dogs will be an open-world adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal, the same folks who make Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow 6, and Far Cry. Our character is named Aiden Pearce, he appears to be a genius who can hack into most, if not all, of the cities online inferstructure...