Major studio known to MMO fans primarily for The Crew and The Division.
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Ubisoft delays sunsetting some online games – including Anno 2070
Ubisoft has an ongoing habit of launching games with online components and then turning those online components off when the games get old enough,...
Skull and Bones’ latest dev blog talks about plundering settlements, outposts, and forts
Sure, you can attack a ship and get its goods in Skull and Bones, but the true buccaneering loot goblin knows that plundering locations...
Skull and Bones talks up the performance benefits and features of its PC version
It's not going to come as much of a surprise to players that the PC version of Ubisoft's upcoming Skull and Bones is going...
The MOP Up: Survival sim Grounded tames gnats and preps for launch
Honey-I-shrunk-the-players survival sim Grounded's last big pre-launch patch arrived recently, adding gnat pets, a cookery building, and armor and weapon upgrade revamps. Grounded is...
Vague Patch Notes: No, Little Orbit has not solved the MMO blockchain problem
It looks like we have indeed lived long enough to see the heroes become the villains: Little Orbit, which we once lionized for saving...
Tencent seeks larger stake in Ubisoft, Unity considers Chinese spinoff
China continues its wrangling of the western gaming industry with moves on both Ubisoft and Unity. Reuters reported yesterday that Tencent is attempting to increase...
Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones teaches you the basics of ship-to-ship combat
With just a few months before its launch, Skull and Bones really needs to get players on board -- no pun intended -- with...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2022: More revenue dips for WoW, ABK, and Blizzard in spite of Diablo Immortal
Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials. As of this afternoon, we have Q2's results, comprising April, May, and June 2022; let's...
Ubisoft assures fans that Roller Champions isn’t getting cancelled, just getting a longer season
Amidst the general bloodbath that Ubisoft unleashed on Friday, you could be forgiven for thinking that Roller Champions was also a game on the...
Skull and Bones outlines the levels of preparation required before entering combat
Hitting the open seas to hunt down prey to plunder in Skull and Bones is apparently not just as simple as hopping aboard a...
Ubisoft announces game cancellations, game delays, and company cost-cutting measures
The financial fortunes for developer and publisher Ubisoft are looking a bit more grim in the wake of an internal email and its first...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMO gamers just frogs in a boiling cookpot?
Longtime MOP reader Miol recently wrote us a long email inspired by a non-MMO stream he'd been watching during which the streamer went off...
The Daily Grind: Has a pirate MMO ever appealed to you?
With Ubisoft's long-delayed Skull and Bones finally arriving this November, gamers will enjoy yet another option to get their pirate fix -- if, indeed,...
Skull and Bones breaks down the different ways players can customize their ship
Since Skull and Bones is all about being a pirate, there's obviously going to be ships in the game. However, the question of what...
Ubisoft plans to yank multiplayer from 15 more of its games this fall as devs scramble to preserve them
If your game library is full of Ubisoft titles, you may want to reevaluate which of them you'll actually be able to play come...
Skull and Bones is set to board your brain and plunder your heart this November
To say that Ubisoft's Skull and Bones has been a long time in the coming is putting it mildly. The age of piracy naval...
The Division Resurgence is announced as a new title for mobile platforms
Want to be able to have all of the city-reclaiming goon-shooting fun of The Division with you on the road? Ubisoft is ready to...
Ubisoft will re-unveil Skull and Bones in this afternoon’s stream
It would appear that at least one of the two rumors surrounding Ubisoft's multiplayer pirating open world Skull and Bones has proven true: The...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that have fallen to the dark side of cryptocurrency
Here's an interesting point that's worth considering: For all the talk about cryptocurrencies, NFTs, the metaverse, and other Web3 buzzwords being the future of...
Whatever happened to The Crew 2?
Those looking to drive fast cars around an open world landscape without being degenerate criminals have had The Crew 2 to enjoy these past...
