A few days ago, the mainstream media jumped all over the news that the New York Times had removed a Trump ‘meme’, posted by President Trump, on Twitter. The NYT owns the right to the underlying photo that was taken by photographer Damon Winter and used in a 2015 feature on the President. While the …
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ubisoft, like many other video game companies, was unable to host its typical in-person press conference at E3 in June due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, it hosted a digital event on Sunday called “Ubisoft Forward,” revealing more about its biggest upcoming games. Those included Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, …
12/07/2020Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, the unprecedented national security law descended on Hong Kong, changing the day-to-day life of the people there, as well as businesses across the …
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Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft debuted the first trailer for Far Cry 6 as part of its Ubisoft Forward digital conference today. The cinematic trailer didn’t have any gameplay, but showed a city in revolt under the regime of a character played by Giancarlo Esposito, who is perhaps best known as Gus Fring in Breaking Bad and …
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It’s been nearly two years, but Ubisoft is finally gearing up to release a new Assassin’s Creed game. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is billed as “the ultimate viking fantasy,” set not in the fjords of Scandinavia but in the fields and rivers of England during the ninth century Viking invasion. Players are put in the role …
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NPCs were a big part of the first two Watch Dogs games; their colorful histories and biographical snippets would pop up when you scanned anyone in the game world, mostly for comedic effect. But in Watch Dogs Legion, Ubisoft is taking that potential and expanding it into a core part of the game — or …
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Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft has announced that the open beta for its upcoming battle royale shooter Hyper Scape kicks off on PC today. In addition to a trailer for the beta, Ubisoft also debuted a new cinematic trailer detailing some of the game’s story. Hyper Scape launched first as a technical test on July 2nd, with …
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This week’s list of original streaming shows has a little something for everyone, I think: Tom Hanks as a heroic Navy captain fleeing Nazis, a new series from the creator of Regular Show, a twist on the King Arthur legend that focuses on the Lady of the Lake, and Zac Efron who is traveling the …
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Ubisoft, like many other game developers and publishers, will hold its own online event to show its upcoming titles. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, all gaming shows have been canceled, so everyone moved on the Internet. Starting today, July 12, 15:00 EST, Ubisoft will kick off its own games show during which we expect to …
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It looks like having a lot of money is not a recipe for success in the gaming industry. One of the world’s biggest companies, Amazon went on a hiring spree a few years ago hoping for a breakthrough in the gaming world. The US giant bet on two multiplayer games and after years in development, …
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Sony Corporation and Epic Games have just announced they have agreed to start looking for ways to collaborate to bring more value to gamers and the gaming industry. For that to happen, Sony has decided to make a strategic investment of $250 million to acquire a minority interest in Epic through a wholly-owned subsidiary of …
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Rather than simply host an “online” convention featuring Zoom chats and pre-recorded trailers, Devolver turned the whole situation into a game. Devolverland Expo is a free-to-play, first-person “marketing simulator” in which players explore an abandoned convention center after the annual Devolver Digital expo was “mysteriously canceled.”
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