After falling in love with the gore of Brothers in Arms Hell’s Highway, I’m obliged to tell developers: please include the visceral death animations in your M rated games, assuming it’s appropriate to the genre. Notice I said M-rated — Finding Nemo wouldn’t benefit from a gory fish brutality resulting from a shark encounter gone [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 21, 2008
Operation Market Garden is widely considered to be one of the least successful Allied offensives of World War II. In September 1944, British and American forces were supposed to push into Germany through Holland, creating an additional front. It also generated what is widely hailed as the best episodes of Band of Brothers. Due a large [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 2, 2008
This game is beautiful – absolutely, positively, undeniably beautiful. All-star team Ubisoft Montreal took the reins after Crytek switched sides and developed Crysis for Electronic Arts, and we’re not remotely worried. Ubisoft has built a new engine called the Dunia engine, and it’s simply hot. If you’re a graphics nut, look no further. We saw a [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 31, 2008
I lean to Nukoda.com editor Ross Arbour and mutter, quite unimpressed, “it’s a palette swap.” Ubisoft Creative Director Clint Hawking, who’s been demoing the ruthlessly difficult and outrageously gorgeous Far Cry 2, has just turned a 512 meter by 512 meter map from a dry, rocky, sandy savanna in to a lushly green forest being [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 7, 2008
“The people of San Francisco say no to the recruiting of underage youth.” That’s how one protester described a sizable protest against a joint project between Ubisoft and the United States military to create America’s Army, a first-person shooter with its sights set on recruitment. The demonstration took place August 6th in San Francisco, specifically [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 28, 2008
Coming in tandem with the “next-gen” version of the re-invigoration of Prince of Persia this holiday season, Ubisoft revealed a Nintendo DS incarnation of the upcoming platformer titled The Fallen King. The handheld title, however, will not be a cel-shaded 3D wall-crawler, but a 2D old-school PoP style game that’s centered around the stylus. When [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 28, 2008
Rainbow Six Vegas‘ first 2007 map pack left a pretty sour taste in gamers mouths, as the ten dollar offering wasn’t particularly priced as well as they could be, especially when the content consisted of three maps. Still, the game was such a smashing success, folks paid for it, and loved it. Later, Ubisoft threw [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Ubisoft has performed a miracle. Rather than forget about the critically aclaimed masterpiece/sales bomb, Beyond Good and Evil, a sequel has finally been announced. The teaser trailer, seen at the link below, is only a taste of the amazing adventure that will surely unfold in Beyond Good and Evil 2, which was announced at Ubidays [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 10, 2007
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 was recently, and unsurprisingly, announced for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Ubisoft’s tactical shooter series returns in 2008 with what we can only assume involves cover, shooting, and more slot machines. The first Rainbow Six Vegas closed out 2006 and remains to be one of 2007’s most played shooters, and [...]
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Friday, October 3, 2008
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