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Some parts of I Am Alive are too dark. Some parts of I Am Alive are too bright. Some parts are pretty much just right, and also show a UI.

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Ubisoft has released a new video for I Am Alive, which explores the game’s combat system. According to the video, it will be in the player’s best interest to save bullets and use bluffing and surprise techniques if possible. Nothing more satisfying than sneaking up behind and enemy and slashing his throat with a machete, is there? I Am Alive is slated for a Q1 2012 release on Xbox Live.

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Ubisoft’s released a new I Am Alive trailer, giving advice on how to manage the best of the situation you’re currently into in the game. Basically, don’t breathe the dust without a mask, get a map, climb up for air and be charitable now and then. Got it? The Ubi Shanghai title launches this winter for PSN and XBLA. Get the trailer below.

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Ubisoft’s oft delayed, on-again-off-again digital survival title is finally ready to emerge into the light of day. Stace Harman takes a look to find out if we welcome it or run for cover.

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Ubisoft Shanghai creative director Stanislas Mettra has clarified yesterday’s inflammatory comments, giving PC gamers hope they may yet see I Am Alive on their platform of choice.

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Ubisoft has seemingly killed off hope that I Am Alive will come to PC.

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When development of I Am Alive switched from Darkworks to Ubisoft Shanghai, work went back to square one but remained “with the same pitch,” the latter has said.

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Mysterious upcoming downloadable title I Am Alive is an old-school survival horror with an emphasis on making difficult choices.

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Ubisoft’s reannounced survival thriller I Am Alive as a digital-only affair, releasing the first new screen and trailer in its new release format.

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This is literally out of nowhere: the ESRB’s rated Ubisoft survival thriller I Am Alive, despite seeing near nothing official on the game in at least a year-and-a-half.

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The suspiciously vapourous survival adventure game I Am Alive has suddenly surfaced on the reliably leaky Australian Classifications Board.

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The first actual game shown for Wii U comes from Ubisoft, and was introduced in detail at a third-party developer roundtable tonight.

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Various outlets are reporting that Ubisoft Shanghai’s I Am Alive will be offered as a digital download title on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network later this year.

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I Am Alive is… well, alive: Ubisoft’s released the first trailer of the game in over two years. Get it after the break.

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Having previously confirmed that a sequel to voice-controlled RTS EndWar was in development at Ubi Shanghai, Michael de Plater, lead on the original’s team, has told VG247 that the project has been put on hold.

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According to a CV pointed out by Blend Games (via D’Toid), multiplayer is being considered for I Am Alive.

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Ubisoft said in a conference call last night that I Am Alive now super-delayed for total redux.

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Update: False alarm. Website now shows the PS3 version as well as PC and 360.

Original Story: It just gets worse and worse, innit?

According to a listing on the Ubisoft website, I Am Alive has been canned for the Playstation 3, yet it’s still listed for a release on PC and Xbox 360.

This can’t end well, right? It’s switched studios, been delayed past April 2010 and apparently slated for a 2011 release.

Via Elotrolado

Oh dear.

If you were praying I Am Alive was coming next year, you may wanna question your faith. According to the CV of the game’s senior designer, Charles Gaudron, it won’t be coming till 2011.

The news comes after Ubisoft delayed several of its core titles a couple of weeks ago, including the highly-anticipated Splinter Cell: Conviction.

With this I Am Alive news, the delay earlier this month and the survival game switching studios from Darkworks to the company’s Shanghai studio, things aren’t looking happy campers on Planet Ubisoft at the moment.

From superannuation.

Ubisoft Shanghai creative director Michael de Plater has told VG247 that his team’s take on RTS with EndWar follows a path BioWare forged with Knights of the Old Republic and the RPG genre, in that his franchise will lead on console before making its way to PC.

“It’s not that we don’t want to do a PC version, and it’s not that it wouldn’t be a good PC game,” he said, when asked why EndWar wasn’t leading on PC, as was traditional in the RTS field.

“I think that really we’re kind of following in the footsteps of BioWare in regards to what they did on RPGs with Knights of the Old Republic, where they had their PC background and experience with Neverwinter Nights and other RPGs, then when they did Knights of the old Republic they shifted the camera down, used their control scheme, made it much more cinematic and used the Star Wars license…

“And then subsequent to that, they could do Knights of the Old Republic on PC and it’s no problem.”

He added: “We’ve basically followed their model.”

De Plater also told us that the game had been pushed back on PC largely thanks to piracy concerns.

EndWar ships for 360 and PS3 on November 7.