Prince of Persia Gone Gold

Ubisoft’s upcoming Prince of Persia title has gone gold. The game has been sent off to manufacturing plants to replicate the DVDs and get ready for retail. Read more

Prince of Persia DLC Confirmed

Ubisoft has confirmed some yummy/juicy/icky/gooey DLC for upcoming Prince of Persia title. Read more

Ubisoft Gets Massive!

Ubisoft has gobbled up World in Conflict developer - Massive Entertainment. Perhaps Massive Entertainment will helpout Ubisoft porting Tom Clancy’s EndWar on PCs? Perhaps.

“We are delighted to welcome the talented team of creators at Massive into the Ubisoft family,” says Christine Burgess-Quemard, Ubisoft’s executive director of worldwide production studios.

Far Cry 2 - v1.1 Patch Released

Ubisoft has released the first patch for Far Cry 2. The patch fixes numerous bugs and adds 5.1ch sound support for most sound cards. Full info after the jump. Read more

FarCry 2 Steam Version Now Available in Europe/Australia/New Zealand

If you’re from EU/AUS/NZ, good news -Steam version of Far Cry 2 is now available in your territory. Well, atleast Steam shows it so. One of our readers sent this in:

Update: It’s official. If you’re from Australia, New Zealand and Europe, you can get FarCry 2 on Steam now.

Far Cry 2 DRM is Logical

Following the latest DRM trend (that is bundling annoying activation system with every PC game) Ubisoft has revealed that FarCry 2 will in-fact use online activation a la Crysis: Warhead, Mass Effect. Full details below:

Some DRM points that will hopefully answer some of your questions and will clarify some misunderstandings about our DRM and SecuROM:

- You have 5 activations per machine on 3 separate PCs.

- Uninstalling the game “refunds” an activation. This process is called “revoke”, so as long as you complete proper uninstall you will be able to install the game an unlimited number of times on 3 systems.

- You can upgrade your computer as many time as you want (using our revoke system)

- Ubisoft is committed to the support of our games, and additional activations can be provided.

- Ubisoft is committed to the long term support of our games: you’ll always be able to play Far Cry 2.

The funny thing is, this’ll only annoy customers. Far Cry 2, just like pretty much any other PC title, will get a 0-day release and the activations will get cracked within few days of it’s release. For what it’s worth, Far Cry 2’s DRM is much more logical than those of EA games.

FarCry 2 Better, Call of Duty 4 Not

FarCry 2 will be really super awesome says Ubisoft. According to the publisher, FarCry 2 will be much more fun than Call of Duty 4, mostly so because of the open-world and non-linearity. Amusingly, this makes me say “No shit”. A non-linear game is obviously more fun to play than a linear/scripted one. Ubisoft is stating the obvious with these remarks - but whatever works for them, I guess.

I think our game will be compared to Call of Duty 4, even if it’s really quite different,” he told VideoGamer.com in an interview to be published early next week. “I think what we bring is, I would say, the crudeness or the wildness of Africa. This is what we feel, with the dynamic world, the dynamic environment… it’s really different. Call of Duty is more military, clean cut: you learn your maps and it’s always the same, the sniper is always in the same place on the map. In our game it won’t be like that because your sniping spot could be set on fire and then you have to move and find somewhere else. So it’s a lot more dynamic than Call of Duty 4.

Ubisoft Patches Double Agent

Ubisoft has patched the highly broken PC port of Splinter Cell: Double Agent - no sooner than almost 3 years of release. The patch fixes a variety of bugs and weighs 21MBytes.

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Far Cry 2 gone Wild!

Catchy title, eh? Ubisoft’s upcoming shooter Far Cry 2 (Which got a big thumbs up from PCGamer) will get more vicious animals via a downloadable update after the game goes retail, revealed PCGamer’s latest issue:

The game will be released with only herbivores,” reads PCG’s The Spy column. “But there’s a real chance that the game could end up with more vicious animals in DLC,” such as lions, tigers and hopefully hungry, hungry hippos.

Yes, we can hear PETA’s whining already…..

PC Gamer Reviews Far Cry 2, Gives it 94%

PCGamer magazine has reviewed Far Cry 2 in their November issue and was kind enough to give it a high score of 94% The review praises the open-ended gameplay, non-linearity and it’s gorgeous graphics. Far Cry 2 fansite, Far Cry 2 World has all the scans of the issue, including the ones that reveal your buddies. We were kind enough to mirror them here (hehe) so check them out after the jump. Read more

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