Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
Yesterday, a dev diary showcasing Assassin's Creed Shadows went live on the IGN China website. Since then, Ubisoft has announced that they are canceling their appearance at the Tokyo Game Show, which was due to take place from September 26 to September 29. In addition, Ubisoft has also canceled press previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows. The Assassin's Creed Shadows press previews were reportedly due to take place next week, with the embargo date being released during that time. However, they have since been canceled. It's not been confirmed as to why the press previews have been canceled, but it's a […]
XDefiant’s executive producer Mark Rubin claims that the free-to-play FPS is “not dying” and, in fact, has Ubisoft’s full support following a previous report that claimed otherwise and suggested the shooter didn’t have long to turn things around. Read ...
Ubisoft Stock Prices have dropped another 7% as shareholders are uncertain about the company's future and worry that it isn't performing well enough. This year, several major Ubisoft releases have been released on rocky ground. The most recent game to be published by Ubisoft is Star Wars Outlaws. While it was well-reviewed by critics on Metacritic, it wasn't as well-received by Star Wars fans. With the release of Star Wars Outlaws, shares fell to a new 10-year low, and now the shares have fallen a further 7%, which isn't spelling out anything good for Ubisoft. The stock price fall happened […]
Ubisoft’s big Call of Duty-like FPS, XDefiant, might only have until Season 3 to turn things around, increase its player count, and start making more money or the publisher could end post-launch updates and effectively kill the FPS. Read more...
Tom Clancy's XDefiant, Ubisoft San Francisco's first game as lead studio since South Park: The Fractured but Whole, launched this May, around three years after the original announcement. The free-to-play competitive first-person shooter game immediately registered strong player counts, becoming Ubisoft's fastest game to reach one million players. Last week, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot officially revealed that XDefiant had hosted 11 million players over its first five weeks. Despite the large fan base, the game has some issues, especially bugs. When a fellow player tweeted to XDefiant Executive Producer Mark Rubin that the game might have been rushed, the developer […]
We already knew that Tom Clancy's XDefiant had started off strong, with Tom Henderson reporting that it was Ubisoft's fastest game to reach 1 million players. Yesterday, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed to the Ubisoft blog that XDefiant registered around 11 million players since its launch five weeks ago. We need to continue to listen closely to our players and make well-informed decisions on where to focus our efforts, because if you succeed at GaaS, you can succeed for the long-term. Let's look at XDefiant. There's a lot of work to do, but it was able to attract 11 million […]
As the dust settled on a hectic (and messy) launch, I got the chance to talk with FPS XDefiant’s executive producer Mark Rubin, and creative director Safy Saada, about the free-to-play Call of Duty-like’s first few weeks, how the Ubisoft team balances ...
Could Rayman or the Panda from Just Dance show up in XDefiant? I asked executive producer Mark Rubin and creative director Safy Saada about that, how they decide on which Ubisoft games to add, and all the work that goes into taking characters from one...
The Division 2's newest season—Year 6 Season 1—is now live and with it, Ubisoft also revealed its plans for the rest of the year. However, a big change on the roadmap involving seasonal characters that players must create fresh at the start of each new...
Today, NVIDIA has announced that CAPCOM's Street Fighter 6 has joined the GeForce NOW library (as previously confirmed), allowing cloud users to enter the fray. The other major weekly additions to GeForce NOW are Ubisoft's free-to-play competitive first-person shooter game XDefiant, which registered strong numbers at launch, and the asymmetric multiplayer horror game Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game. The latter title was just reviewed by Nathan Birch, getting a 6 out of 10 score. Nathan wrote: At this point in the review, Killer Klowns from Outer Space may sound like a pretty solid asymmetric multiplayer game, and in […]
The free-to-play first-person shooter game XDefiant is reportedly doing big numbers already. According to Tom Henderson, the game has become the fastest ever made by Ubisoft to surpass one million unique players. In fact, it has already managed to break through the three million unique player milestone. It goes without saying that XDefiant is currently outperforming even Ubisoft's rosiest expectations. However, the big question with a live service game like this is whether it can retain players' interest over time. While Call of Duty Modern Warfare III has certainly underwhelmed, the same might not be true for 2024's title, which […]
First announced in 2021, XDefiant is finally here following delays, name changes, and a borked launch. While the game had a rough journey to release, it’s out now and that means we can finally play Ubisoft’s new free-to-play Call of Duty-like online sh...
Vampire Survivors draws tons of inspiration from Castlevania, so it is no surprise that the new Ode To Castlevania DLC is fantastic. I’m here to guide you through unlocking each Hero and evolving each weapon, because that’s how you’ll end up accessing ...
I started playing Overwatch in 2019. By the time I was pushing payloads and getting Play of the Game with a well-placed Tactical Visor, a lot of the old hero kits and team compositions that were infamous when the hero shooter launched in 2016 were more...
Yesterday, a dev diary showcasing Assassin's Creed Shadows went live on the IGN China website. Since then, Ubisoft has announced that they are canceling their appearance at the Tokyo Game Show, which was due to take place from September 26 to September 29. In addition, Ubisoft has also canceled press previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows. The Assassin's Creed Shadows press previews were reportedly due to take place next week, with the embargo date being released during that time. However, they have since been canceled. It's not been confirmed as to why the press previews have been canceled, but it's a […]
XDefiant’s executive producer Mark Rubin claims that the free-to-play FPS is “not dying” and, in fact, has Ubisoft’s full support following a previous report that claimed otherwise and suggested the shooter didn’t have long to turn things around. Read ...
Ubisoft Stock Prices have dropped another 7% as shareholders are uncertain about the company's future and worry that it isn't performing well enough. This year, several major Ubisoft releases have been released on rocky ground. The most recent game to be published by Ubisoft is Star Wars Outlaws. While it was well-reviewed by critics on Metacritic, it wasn't as well-received by Star Wars fans. With the release of Star Wars Outlaws, shares fell to a new 10-year low, and now the shares have fallen a further 7%, which isn't spelling out anything good for Ubisoft. The stock price fall happened […]
Ubisoft’s big Call of Duty-like FPS, XDefiant, might only have until Season 3 to turn things around, increase its player count, and start making more money or the publisher could end post-launch updates and effectively kill the FPS. Read more...
Tom Clancy's XDefiant, Ubisoft San Francisco's first game as lead studio since South Park: The Fractured but Whole, launched this May, around three years after the original announcement. The free-to-play competitive first-person shooter game immediately registered strong player counts, becoming Ubisoft's fastest game to reach one million players. Last week, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot officially revealed that XDefiant had hosted 11 million players over its first five weeks. Despite the large fan base, the game has some issues, especially bugs. When a fellow player tweeted to XDefiant Executive Producer Mark Rubin that the game might have been rushed, the developer […]
We already knew that Tom Clancy's XDefiant had started off strong, with Tom Henderson reporting that it was Ubisoft's fastest game to reach 1 million players. Yesterday, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed to the Ubisoft blog that XDefiant registered around 11 million players since its launch five weeks ago. We need to continue to listen closely to our players and make well-informed decisions on where to focus our efforts, because if you succeed at GaaS, you can succeed for the long-term. Let's look at XDefiant. There's a lot of work to do, but it was able to attract 11 million […]
As the dust settled on a hectic (and messy) launch, I got the chance to talk with FPS XDefiant’s executive producer Mark Rubin, and creative director Safy Saada, about the free-to-play Call of Duty-like’s first few weeks, how the Ubisoft team balances ...
Could Rayman or the Panda from Just Dance show up in XDefiant? I asked executive producer Mark Rubin and creative director Safy Saada about that, how they decide on which Ubisoft games to add, and all the work that goes into taking characters from one...
The Division 2's newest season—Year 6 Season 1—is now live and with it, Ubisoft also revealed its plans for the rest of the year. However, a big change on the roadmap involving seasonal characters that players must create fresh at the start of each new...
Today, NVIDIA has announced that CAPCOM's Street Fighter 6 has joined the GeForce NOW library (as previously confirmed), allowing cloud users to enter the fray. The other major weekly additions to GeForce NOW are Ubisoft's free-to-play competitive first-person shooter game XDefiant, which registered strong numbers at launch, and the asymmetric multiplayer horror game Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game. The latter title was just reviewed by Nathan Birch, getting a 6 out of 10 score. Nathan wrote: At this point in the review, Killer Klowns from Outer Space may sound like a pretty solid asymmetric multiplayer game, and in […]
The free-to-play first-person shooter game XDefiant is reportedly doing big numbers already. According to Tom Henderson, the game has become the fastest ever made by Ubisoft to surpass one million unique players. In fact, it has already managed to break through the three million unique player milestone. It goes without saying that XDefiant is currently outperforming even Ubisoft's rosiest expectations. However, the big question with a live service game like this is whether it can retain players' interest over time. While Call of Duty Modern Warfare III has certainly underwhelmed, the same might not be true for 2024's title, which […]
First announced in 2021, XDefiant is finally here following delays, name changes, and a borked launch. While the game had a rough journey to release, it’s out now and that means we can finally play Ubisoft’s new free-to-play Call of Duty-like online sh...