Ubisoft News Articles
Tuesday21st Jun 2022
News Ubisoft Confirms 'Roller Champions' Is Finally Out On Switch Today
Update: Along with a new season
Update [Tue 21st Jun, 2022 09:10] Ubisoft has revealed that Roller Champions is indeed dropping on Switch today! The company shared the news on Twitter yesterday, also announcing that Disco Fever season kicks off today. The season brings with it new items, outfits, and a brand new game mode. Check out the trailer...
Thursday2nd Jun 2022
News Ubisoft Won't Be Hosting An E3-Style Presentation This Month
Mario + Rabbids update when?
It appears Ubisoft won't be hosting its usual E3-style presentation this year. A story over on Axios reveals the publisher likely won't host another event until later on in 2022. Ubisoft had held E3-timed showcases annually in June for years, but a company rep tells Axios the publisher won't have another until "later...
Wednesday25th May 2022
News Five New Street Fighter Characters Enter The Ring Today In Ubisoft's Brawlhalla
M. Bison, Luke, Sakura, Ken and Dhalsim
Ubisoft and Capcom have teamed up once more to add five more Street Fighter legends to the roster of Brawlhalla, as part of the "Street Fighter Part II Epic Crossover Event". Those five characters are: Dhalsim Epic Crossover for Rayman – Self-disciplined but stern, Dhalsim can stretch his body and...
Saturday14th May 2022
News Ubisoft's China-Exclusive Rabbids Game Getting Global Switch Release
Update: Arriving this June
Update [Sat 14th May, 2022 14:00 BST]: An official PR for Rabbids: Party of Legends has been released - confirming a launch for 30th June 2022. A listing for the game is also on the Switch eShop. Get ready for a trip down the Rabbid hole with Rabbids: Party of Legends, coming June 30 to Switch, Stadia, Xbox One, and PS4...
Thursday12th May 2022
News Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope Still On Track For 2022 Release
Ubisoft shares a brief update
In July last year, Ubisoft and Nintendo revealed Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope - a sequel to the 2017 tactical turn-based Switch release Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. Last we heard, the game was "coming 2022", and it seems it's still on track. In the French company's latest earnings
Tuesday10th May 2022
News Three More Street Fighter Legends Are Coming To Ubisoft's F2P Brawlhalla
Arriving May 25th
Capcom's iconic Street Fighter series is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, and while there's no sign of the newer entries coming to the Switch any time soon, Capcom has been giving Nintendo fans their Street Fighter fix in different ways. It's released collections like the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, and...
Monday25th Apr 2022
Rumour Ubisoft Being Eyed Up For A Potential Takeover
Another big company could be acquired
It feels like every single month there's news of a new video game company acquisition. This year alone, we've seen Microsoft absorb Activision Blizzard, Sony buy former-Halo developer Bungie, Take-Two acquire the keys to Farmville developer,
Wednesday6th Apr 2022
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Eivor Joins Ezio In Fortnite This Week
Bonne Eivor
The presence of Ezio from the Assassin's Creed series in Fortnite was first revealed over a month ago, but it now seems that Eivor Varinsdottir from Assassin's Creed Valhalla will be coming to the battle royale game's storefront this week. Starting from 8pm ET on Thursday 7th April, players will be able to pick up both protagonists from...
Tuesday22nd Mar 2022
Rumour Ubisoft Reportedly Developing Sequel To Immortals Fenyx Rising
And a new 2.5D Prince of Persia game
Ubisoft has shown a respectable amount of support for the Nintendo Switch over the past five years. If you're curious to see what else might be on the way from the third-party French company, read on. A new report by the reliable leaker Tom Henderson on Xfire has shared details about "nearly 20" of Ubisoft's...
Tuesday15th Mar 2022
News Digital Foundry Takes A Sneaky Look At Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection On Switch
"A complicated and rather compromised conversion"
The Switch has been well served with older Assassin's Creed games, getting a number of ports that give players a lot of adventures to work through. The most recent arrival was Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection, including three titles that are regarded by some as the original peak of the...
Tuesday1st Mar 2022
News New Leak Reveals Assassin's Creed's Ezio Is Coming To Fortnite
Ezio's got a gun
Raise your hand if you can name a single character from movies, TV, or games who hasn't been in Fortnite. Up until today, that could have included Ezio "Assassin's Creed" Auditore da Firenze, Ubisoft's beloved Italian stab-meister from the long-running series about making people dead. But now, according to a leak (via ShiinaBR on...
Thursday3rd Feb 2022
News Ubisoft Is Releasing A New "Dodgeball Multiplayer Party Game" On Switch
The 'OddBallers' arrive next month
Ubisoft has announced it's bringing Game Swing's "new dodgeball multiplayer party game" OddBallers to Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms next month on March 24. This party game can be played solo, or multiplayer - and supports up to four players locally and six online. According to the PR, players will...
Friday28th Jan 2022
News Ubisoft: Players "Don't Get" What Makes NFTs So Beneficial
"This is part of a paradigm shift in gaming"
Late last year, Ubisoft announced Quartz, an NFT platform that is to be adopted across some of the firm's most popular games. The reaction from the general public was negative, to say the least, and it doesn't seem like the venture was all that successful commercially, either. However, Nicolas Pouard, VP...
Tuesday11th Jan 2022
News Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection Announced For Switch This February
'Exclusive compilation' includes AC II, Brotherhood, Revelations, plus extras
Ubisoft has announced Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection for Switch, launching on 17th February. An age-gated launch trailer can be viewed on YouTube highlighting the release. This long-rumoured collection will include the acclaimed Assassin's
Tuesday21st Dec 2021
News Ubisoft Staff Are Leaving Their Jobs In Droves, Report Claims
"It's legitimately embarrassing"
A new report by Stephen Totilo of Axios claims that there's currently an exodus of staff at troubled publisher Ubisoft. According to the report, at least five of the top 25-credited people from the company's biggest 2021 game, Far Cry 6, have already left Ubisoft's ranks. Furthermore, 12 of the top 50 staffers on
Monday6th Dec 2021
Rumour Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection Is Coming To Switch
Includes three of the best games in the series
2016's Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection pulls together the three entries that showcase the charismatic Ezio Auditore da Firenze, one of the franchise's most popular protagonists – and if a new rumour is to be believed, it's coming to Switch soon. The pack – which was released previously on PS4...
Monday1st Nov 2021
News Ubisoft Wants To Be "One Of The Key Players" In Blockchain Gaming
"We think it's going to grow the industry quite a lot"
Last week Ubisoft gave its Q2 earnings presentation for investors outlining its fortunes so far this financial year (not bad) and detailed its outlook for the rest of 2021 and the future. As reported by IGN, the gaming giant is looking to explore the potential of blockchain gaming in a...
Friday22nd Oct 2021
News Ubisoft Is Bringing A New Monopoly Game To The Nintendo Switch
The madness begins this December
Who needs Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed and Far Cry when you have the all-time classic board game Monopoly. Ubisoft has announced a new take on Hasbro's property trading game called Monopoly Madness - a title that "reinvents" the iconic board game and is launching on the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms...
Sunday13th Jun 2021
News The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Are Joining Brawlhalla Next Week
Turtle power!
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate obviously isn't the only all-star brawler out there. One of the more successful ones outside of this heavy-hitter is Ubisoft and Blue Mammoth's free-to-play title Brawlhalla. It landed on the Nintendo Switch back in 2018 and since then has continued to expand its roster. The game already has over 50...
Gallery Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope Box Art And Screenshots Round Up
The cover looks absolutely stunning
If the reveal and gameplay trailer for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope wasn't already enough, we've now got just a little bit more of this newly announced Ubisoft title, courtesy of the company's press website. Perhaps most excitingly is a look at the game's official Nintendo Switch box art. Here it is in all its...
"Just checking if we are all good. Are we good?"
One guy who is probably the most excited about Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope is the creative director David Soliani. As you might recall, he's the one who was crying tears of joy when his original Mario + Rabbids game was introduced by Shigeru Miyamoto at E3 2017. Of course, he's just as happy to...
News Grant Kirkhope "Honoured" To Return As Composer For Mario + Rabbids Sequel
"I get to do another Mario game!!"
After a slip-up on Nintendo's end, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope was officially unveiled during Ubisoft's E3 presentation. Being a sequel, a number of key figures have returned, and this includes the former Rare composer Grant Kirkhope. H
Saturday12th Jun 2021
News Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope Officially Unveiled With 'Reveal' Trailer
Plus a gameplay trailer, and it looks fantastic
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle had quite a rollercoaster ride before its announcement at E3 2017 — low quality leaked assets, showing Mario shooting a gun alongside Rabbids, were not well received. Yet when the game appeared days later at Ubisoft's show, the script was well and truly flipped - it...
News Predictably, Just Dance 2022 Is Coming To Switch This November
Don't think this one's on Wii, though
In the biggest non-surprise in the history of E3, Ubisoft has announced Just Dance 2022, and it'll be coming to Switch (and all other platforms under the sun) on 4th November. As you can see in the trailer above which was unveiled in today's Ubisoft Forward presentation, Todrick Hall will be contributing to...
News Nintendo's Official Website Reveals Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope, Coming To Switch In 2022
Just hours out from Ubisoft's E3 presentation
Update #2 (Sat 12th Jun, 2021 15:40 BST) And Nintendo of America has now taken the game page down. We can expect to hear more details and see a 'reveal' trailer later today at the Ubisoft Forward event — join us to watch the livestream at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 8pm UK / 9pm CEST. Update (Sat...
Wednesday12th May 2021
News Ubisoft Has Major Free-To-Play Plans Across "All" Franchises And Platforms
Insert your own Splinter Cell request here
Ubisoft is one of the world's biggest publishers, yet has largely struggled to make a major breakthrough in the lucrative free-to-play space. The one exception currently is Brawlhalla, which is enjoying a resurgence after 5+ years on the market and plenty of investment. There's more on the horizon, too,...
Wednesday5th May 2021
News Immortals Fenyx Rising's 1.3.1 Update Has Landed - Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Download it today
Last month, Ubisoft rolled out a major update for Immortals Fenyx Rising - adding in support for 'The Lost Gods' DLC and much more. It has now released another patch - Title Update 1.3.1 - to address some minor issues. There are some bug fixes, stability and performance improvements, and a bunch of other fixes for quests,...
Thursday22nd Apr 2021
News Ubisoft To Take Assassin's Creed Lore To The Next Level With Mr Men And Little Miss Books
Mass murder, but for kids apparently
In the dozens (and dozens) of hours it takes to beat Assassin's Creed Valhalla it's possible you'll chop off approximately 800 heads, though you'll kill thousands as you rampage through monasteries and towns in a very Viking-esque way. Even going back to the older games that we can enjoy on the Switch, for...
Thursday15th Apr 2021
News Ubisoft Forward Event Confirmed For Day One Of E3
Just Dance 2022 confirmed, surely
E3 is back this year, and for many of us it'll be the same as always - sitting in comfort with snacks at hand and watching too many livestreams. Though we won't necessarily have the groan-inducing entertainment of a live show, the good news is that Ubisoft has dated its presentation with the 'Ubisoft Forward' brand...
Tuesday13th Apr 2021
News Nintendo Actually Responded To A Fan Request Asking For Rayman In Smash
Says it will send the suggestion to "other departments"
One of the most popular playable character requests for Super Smash Bros. over the years has been Ubisoft's Rayman. While he's already been added to Nintendo's all-star brawler as a spirit and trophy, the chances of him joining as a playable character seem far less likely - especially now that...
