Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is currently the biggest upcoming launch from Ubisoft for this year and the French giant is trying to keep the hype up by providing an opportunity for Uplay users to play Assassin’s Creed Origins for free for a limited time. Revealed just a few hours ago, Assassin’s Creed Origins will be available
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In recent years, game companies have been trying their best to implement the best accessibility practices for video games. One studio that always impresses me is Ubisoft, which seems to strive to improve accessibility features in its games, title-after-title. As part of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2020, I had the opportunity to jump into a
In a report from Gamesindustry.biz, Ubisoft will be making the Discovery Tour modes in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and Origins free for one week on Uplay. The Discovery Tours will be available for free from May 15 to the 21st as a part of Ubisoft’s Play Your Part, Play at Home campaign. “With millions of children experiencing
The Assassin’s Creed franchise has had a rollercoaster history of development and direction. When the first game released in 2007, it gave me a fresh perspective of creativity that I haven’t really experienced in another AAA franchise since. From the beginning, the stealth action-adventure series has delved into different important eras of history through simulation.
As it approaches its fifteenth anniversary, the Assassin’s Creed franchise has been just about all over the place. From Renaissance Italy, to Ancient Greece, and even the American Revolution, the Assassin’s Creed saga has taken us on many different adventures all of varying quality. Now, with Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla set to come out later this year on current
When you’re spending dozens upon dozens of hours playing a video game, you can’t help but grow attached to certain characters. No, not in a weird way…just in the kind of way that makes us love them from the start of a journey to reaching the very end, and seeing how they’ve grown and changed
As 2018 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2018 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just 2018
Both Monster Hunter: World and the Assassin’s Creed franchise as a whole have a case of crossover fever, so it was inevitable that these two would cross at some point. The former game recently added a new Event Quest, and players have found that completing it will unlock some Assassin’s Creed Origins-inspired goodies. The Event
Being deaf, I’ve often made jokes about bad subtitles that are too small to read. Just in the past few years we’ve seen a few examples of how games have stumbled when it comes to implementing proper subtitles, such as Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus with its tiny subtitles that blend, or walls of text in Fallout 4.
Bayek, the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed Origins, is now available to be unlocked and recruited in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey thanks to the Ubisoft Club. In order to unlock Bayek you must login to your account on the Ubisoft Club and purchase him for 40 Ubisoft coins. These are earned by completing objectives in most all
Assassin’s Creed Origins‘ second expansion, Curse of the Pharaohs, will be available on all of its platforms tomorrow. To celebrate its launch, a new trailer for the upcoming add-on has been released flaunting its mythology-focused story. Set four years after the events of Assassin’s Creed Origins, you’ll continue to play as the game’s main protagonist,
No one ever complains about bonus content added to games. In fact, many were championing developer Ubisoft for giving them a reason to return to Assassin’s Creed: Origins. An update that popped up last month opened up opening up a Discovery Tour feature which may have felt… unrewarding. However, in a patch that rolled out this week, Ubisoft has
Today Ubisoft released the patch notes for the next update for Assassin’s Creed Origins, which will be released tomorrow, February 20th. The main additions in the update include the Discovery Tour, that will let you roam Egypt just enjoying the scenery, or follow 75 specific tours centered on focused themes, pretty much like a tourist
Since its release last fall, Assassin’s Creed Origins has drawn a number of players into its detailed environments bringing ancient Egypt to life, and for those looking to dig a little deeper into the history and culture of Egypt, the upcoming Discovery Tour Mode will bring players to it closer than ever. Ubisoft detailed more of
Aside from pushing the series into a new direction, last fall’s Assassin’s Creed Origins was praised for its setting and attention to detail to the culture of Egypt, and now players will be able to dig deeper into Egyptian history next week with the release of the Discovery Tour Mode. Ubisoft announced that Discovery Tour Mode
During Ubisoft’s quarterly investor conference call, Chief Executive Officer Yves Guillemot and Chief Financial Officer Alain Martinez talked about microtransactions and loot boxes. Martinez mentioned during the prepared remarks that live services continue to drive “strong engagement” and digital performance. For the first nine months of the current fiscal year, Ubisoft’s monthly active users excluding mobile
Since its debut last fall, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Origins garnered critical acclaim and reinvigorated the Assassin’s Creed franchise with a new outlook on the popular action-adventure series, and now those looking to replay the title with some new experiences will be able to do so with an upcoming New Game+ mode. Over on the Assassin’s Creed subreddit, Ubisoft community manager
If you’re excited about The Hidden Ones DLC for Assassin’s Creed Origins and you want to see more of it before its release tomorrow then you might want to pay attention. Developer Ubisoft has officially released a brand new trailer for the expansion to celebrate its launch, and boy is it action-packed. The trailer, which you can, as
For those that have finished up their adventures in Ancient Egypt with Bayek and have been patiently waiting for more content in Assassin’s Creed Origins, the wait won’t be much longer. Ubisoft today revealed the dates for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Origins’ DLC with the first arriving next week. This first add-on is titled The Hidden Ones and is a story
Earlier today, Ubisoft outlined the upcoming slew of content that will be arriving through December in their recently released open world game Assassin’s Creed Origins. To start, Ubisoft listed off the biggest changes that will be coming in this month’s title update which include the additions of a higher difficulty level as well as a new
Ubisoft has been implementing a series of free in-game events for Assassin’s Creed Origins titled Trials of the Gods. While the first trial pitched Bayek against the iconic dog-faced god Anubis, this time around we get a slightly more obscure deity with Sobek, the crocodile-faced god of water and fertility. Why would you associate fertility
Today Ubisoft released the Roman Centurion Pack DLC for Assassin’s Creed Origins, and they followed up with a trailer to show what it is all about. The DLC package lets you dress Bayek as a Roman centurion (or more precisely, a rather imaginative way of how a roman Centurion would have dressed), complete with lion pelt,
Ubisoft has released patch notes alongside their 1.0.3 update for Assassins Creed Origins. The patch rolled out on all platforms a few days ago and adds a ton of changes, fixes, and new additions. While Xbox One X version will be getting the 4K treatment in this update, HDR support is being added to the Xbox One
With Assassin’s Creed Origins finally out, ASUS has unveiled a brand new graphics card, the ROG STRIX 1080 Ti Assassin’s Creed Origins Edition. Visually, the graphics card is sporting a beautiful brown/gold finish across the product followed by a backplate that incorporates Egyptian hieroglyphs. Additionally, the design has a 12+2 phase VRM and dual 8-pin power connectors with
Assassin’s Creed Origins released today, and since it’s a bit different from its predecessors, some might need some tips and tricks to get the most out of Bayek’s skills. Enter Game Director Ashraf Ismail, who is starring in four videos explaining different aspects of the game, we get one on crafting and progression, one on
Assassin’s Creed: Origins is due out tomorrow and DualShockers’ Noah Buttner had the chance to play it last week at a Ubisoft event in San Francisco for over 40 hours. With the embargo lifted, most critics agree: the game is beautiful. The version we played at the event was running on an Xbox One X,
For years the Assassin’s Creed franchise has been the subject of delays, devotion, and non-numeral entries in the series leaving a bad taste in players mouths leaving fans on a constant emotional roller coaster ride. Finally, ten years after the launch of the first game, Assassin’s Creed: Origins makes a meaningful mark on history – a
French publisher Ubisoft has unveiled the launch day patch for its upcoming action-adventure game Assassin’s Creed: Origins. According to Ubisoft, to ensure the best experience on launch day, it is highly recommended that player’s download the update; following patch will focus on tweaking the game’s balance, modifying performance and stability, and modifications Photo Mode to provide better
Assassin’s Creed Origins is coming fast, but if you want a taste early, we have what you might need. Ubisoft allowed DualShockers to record the first thirty minutes of gameplay running on Xbox One X, and we have the raw footage for you, in lovely 4K resolution. We get to see how Bayek’s begins, as he
The release date of Assassin’s Creed Origins is drawing closer and closer, and nowadays it appears to be out of fashion to release a launch trailer on launch day, so Ubisoft jumped the gun and published it today. The trailer, titled “Legend of the Assassin” tells the story of protagonist Bayek with beautiful footage in