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Watch_Dogs, the new IP from Ubisoft Montreal, is turning plenty of heads. With the reveal of it’s release date earlier today, VG247 spoke to studio head Yannis Mallat about the game.

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Ubisoft has dropped a little tease related to anticipated next-generation effort Watch Dogs.

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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag pre-order customers can get exclusive access to the game’s social and multimedia hub “The Watch”. Developer Ubisoft has trailered the service, showing off what it’s all about.

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Ubisoft Montreal’s jaunty free-to-play title, The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot, has a new gameplay trailer that shows off the title’s raiding and castle building elements. The video is narrated by the magnanimous Sir Painhammer, one of the hero characters that you can use to go castle-crashing through the magical kingdom of Opulencia.

The trailer is through the break and you can check out Stace Harman’s first impressions from earlier this year, over here

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Maybe you’re not a fan of live-action trailers for games, but you haven’t seen the delightful effort from Corridor Digital promoting Ubisoft’s “shitty action movie” Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.

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Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat has said he suspects the audience is ready for always-online consoles.

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Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat expects current market trends to continue with next-gen systems: big triple-A titles with more production values and the usual tablet, mobile and social games space. However, this will lead to “B-games” being pushed out.

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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon info is spilling out onto the internet like runny neon egg yolk. Ubisoft has released the game’s official reveal trailer, which parodies Saturday morning cartoons from the 1980s. The game’s out on XBLA, PSN and PC from May 1.

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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon has been officially outed by Ubisoft after a slew of leaks. But fret not, it looks rather ace. The standalone game can now be pre-purchased on Steam.

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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a neon-lit, static-filtered tribute to action movies of the 1980s. Ubisoft creative director Dean Evans has discussed why the team opted for this pitch in a new interview.

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Far Cry 3 has appeared on the Xbox Live Marketplace, finally giving us some solid information regarding this rumoured “80′s VHS vision of the future”.

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See, I told you Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a thing, although it’s definitely not the 1980′s-style action sci fi movie its April Fool’s Day joke suggested. It’s a 1980′s-style action sci figame. All sorted.

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Ubisoft Montreal boss Yannis Mallat believes Assassin’s Creed fans enjoy the franchise’s yearly release schedule, which gives development teams time off while still delivering fresh product.

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Look, guys, I know what day it is, I really do, but Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is an actual thing, I promise you. Whether any of the stuff Ubisoft said about it today is true or not is another matter.

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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag was only announced this month, but two Ubisoft teams are already working on the one to come after that.

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Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets believes the first game is the best in the series, although he said the premise didn’t become a “real game” until the second entry,

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Ubisoft has confirmed that Patrice Désilets has returned to the company.

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In case you’re not aware, Assassin’s Creed 3′s first major DLC, The Tyranny of King Washington, is a bit of fun – it boasts an alternate history story that has US pariots reaching for the smelling salts, and grants our hero a number of supernatural powers. In this trailer for Infamy – the first episode, which was released in February – you can see Connor’s new abilities, as he turns invisible and summons a pack of spirit wolves.

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A comment from Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag creative director Jean Guesdon earlier this week suggested we might see both Sony and Microsoft’s new consoles by the game’s release; however, Ubisoft has since reached out to VG247 to clarify Guesdon’s comments further.

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Former Assassin’s Creed protagonist Desmond has been retired, but Ubisoft has promised to continue the franchise’s meta-story in Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag.

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