Yet another Anvil Engine talk:
https://youtu.be/CcYq18bkvyU
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REAC 2025 Anvil Rendering Architecture.
In this talk, we’ll present Anvil’s evolution into a centralized engine within a monorepo, powering multiple productions in a unified codebase. This structure introduces technical and organizational challenges, including modularization, shader complexity…
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I'm curious when Ubisoft will start selling Snowdrop and Anvil to third parties...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jFC7d7LiJg
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Evolution of the Snowdrop Game Engine
The Snowdrop game engine is a cornerstone of developing games here at Massive Entertainment and at Ubisoft. From the life-like cities in Tom Clancy’s The Division to the lush wilderness in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and the galaxy of Star Wars Outlaws –…
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An interesting take on SBMM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW_uLr2HGNk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW_uLr2HGNk
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XDefiant: The Industry's Unlearned Lessons
XDefiant's collapse was an echo of past industry blunders, old familiar problems. In this video, we'll explore what went wrong and I'll reveal for the first time how Microsoft walked away from Vanguard: Saga of Heroes after facing some of the same issues.
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For twenty years, I have harboured a secret. That Myst IV is my favorite part of the whole series!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhsIIMtIeXE
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Myst IV: Revelation - Intro
Transcript:
"For twenty years, I have harbored a secret. People talk about my sons, and the evil things they did, but still I remain strangely mute. I do not discuss my own actions that day - or the rage I felt when I burned the two linking books that had…
"For twenty years, I have harbored a secret. People talk about my sons, and the evil things they did, but still I remain strangely mute. I do not discuss my own actions that day - or the rage I felt when I burned the two linking books that had…
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Just got Assassin's Creed Odyssey on Steam (it's on sale, 85% off) and for some reason they dropped me Assassin's Creed 3 Remastered too. It isn't mentioned anywhere! 😮
It feels like getting an oddly good gift when you buy something from a marketplace.
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It feels like getting an oddly good gift when you buy something from a marketplace.
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Just got Assassin's Creed Odyssey on Steam (it's on sale, 85% off) and for some reason they dropped me Assassin's Creed 3 Remastered too. It isn't mentioned anywhere! 😮 It feels like getting an oddly good gift when you buy something from a marketplace. …
It takes SEVERAL MINUTES to load up all the gear (that I have from a better edition and from owning other games) before I can actually play.
It shows all items by small chunks of 3 and makes pop-up sound for all of them.
Who approved that?
Jeez...
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It shows all items by small chunks of 3 and makes pop-up sound for all of them.
Who approved that?
Jeez...
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Just got Assassin's Creed Odyssey on Steam (it's on sale, 85% off) and for some reason they dropped me Assassin's Creed 3 Remastered too. It isn't mentioned anywhere! 😮 It feels like getting an oddly good gift when you buy something from a marketplace. …
So, Assassin's Creed Odyssey is vast, insanely beautiful, and much better written than Valhalla in terms of dialogues. And cities are just magical, simply walking around is the experience.
And it's on sale for yet another week: https://store.steampowered.com/app/812140/Assassins_Creed_Odyssey/
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And it's on sale for yet another week: https://store.steampowered.com/app/812140/Assassins_Creed_Odyssey/
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It's time for some history!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnR_gnzb0bI
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Historian Explores Ancient Alexandria In Assassin's Creed Origins
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Ever wanted to explore the streets of Ancient Alexandria? From the Tomb of Alexander to the Pharos Lighthouse, join ancients historian Tristan Hughes on a guided tour exploring the…
Ever wanted to explore the streets of Ancient Alexandria? From the Tomb of Alexander to the Pharos Lighthouse, join ancients historian Tristan Hughes on a guided tour exploring the…
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Bringing back The Crew is impossible, according to Ubisoft... here's the offline patch, according to fans of the game: https://thecrewunlimited.com/
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The Crew 2 just received the hybrid-offline mode! Same as they promised after the scandal with The Crew being delisted.
You have 2 choices:
• Start an entirely new game save purely in offline mode.
• Import your online save to an offline/local save.
• Only one local save is supported, so a new one will re-write the previous one (for example, if you export online one again)
• When launching the game, if your console or PC is connected to the internet, you'll be able to select whether to play online or offline.
• If no internet connection is detected, the game will automatically launch in Offline Mode.
BUT the game still boots up BattleEye for some reason.
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You have 2 choices:
• Start an entirely new game save purely in offline mode.
• Import your online save to an offline/local save.
• Only one local save is supported, so a new one will re-write the previous one (for example, if you export online one again)
• When launching the game, if your console or PC is connected to the internet, you'll be able to select whether to play online or offline.
• If no internet connection is detected, the game will automatically launch in Offline Mode.
BUT the game still boots up BattleEye for some reason.
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There are massive layoffs at MASSIVE ENTERTAINMENT, that you may know for Star Wars Outlaws, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and The Division.
But they haven't fired people... THEY ARE HELPING WITH THEIR CAREER TRANSITION!
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But they haven't fired people... THEY ARE HELPING WITH THEIR CAREER TRANSITION!
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Watch Dogs 2
The game is very impressive, but it's in poor shape on any modern NVIDIA card with high refresh rate monitors. It is flickering like hell.
On the pirated version you can simply replace the DX11 with Vulkan, but on a legit one the solution is literally to limit the game at 60 FPS. Even if it's capable of running at 160.
And Ubisoft officially refuses to fix it, but they are still selling it just fine.
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The game is very impressive, but it's in poor shape on any modern NVIDIA card with high refresh rate monitors. It is flickering like hell.
On the pirated version you can simply replace the DX11 with Vulkan, but on a legit one the solution is literally to limit the game at 60 FPS. Even if it's capable of running at 160.
And Ubisoft officially refuses to fix it, but they are still selling it just fine.
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To be slightly more specific
1. If AC Shadows underperformed and accounting of its loss was not properly maintained, it can force them to re-evaluate. Since loses on Star Wars and Avatar were measured long ago.
2. The split into several companies makes evaluation much harder too, since it's unclear who owns what and who can do what with resources.
Those are the two most possible scenarios.
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1. If AC Shadows underperformed and accounting of its loss was not properly maintained, it can force them to re-evaluate. Since loses on Star Wars and Avatar were measured long ago.
2. The split into several companies makes evaluation much harder too, since it's unclear who owns what and who can do what with resources.
Those are the two most possible scenarios.
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To be slightly more specific 1. If AC Shadows underperformed and accounting of its loss was not properly maintained, it can force them to re-evaluate. Since loses on Star Wars and Avatar were measured long ago. 2. The split into several companies makes evaluation…
According to Dispatch creators, they were working on the new stealth action for Ubisoft and quit because the company shifted into xDefiant.
Yes, the company didn't want a good solo Splinter Cell, they wanted Call of Duty. And now we've also seen what happened to the original Call of Duty.
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Yes, the company didn't want a good solo Splinter Cell, they wanted Call of Duty. And now we've also seen what happened to the original Call of Duty.
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Not buying it!
- Revenue is okay
- Profits are in decline
- They fired even more people
But none of it was worth such a delay minutes before the originally planned announcement.
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- Revenue is okay
- Profits are in decline
- They fired even more people
But none of it was worth such a delay minutes before the originally planned announcement.
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Now we know more specific numbers: Call of Duty Black Ops 7 sales in Europe are horrible, despite the extremely high production costs (according to Game Sales Data).
Meanwhile, Anno 117: Pax Romana from Ubisoft has sold around 2.5x more at launch than 2019’s Anno 1800. The game is doing much better than expected.
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Meanwhile, Anno 117: Pax Romana from Ubisoft has sold around 2.5x more at launch than 2019’s Anno 1800. The game is doing much better than expected.
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A good part of Ubisoft is making these documentaries with historians, this time about Syndicate and London:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EjiW7hu-VI
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Historian Explores Victorian London in Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Ever wanted to explore the streets of Victorian London? Join history tour guide Louise Quick in this new video as she explores 1860s London thanks to Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. From Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square to the city’s infamous East End,…
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If you felt that the new cutscenes feel artificial, you were right (and it's not a secret):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkD6ui59ff8
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Assassin's Creed cutscene quality needs to change...
There's many different reasons as to why quality has dropped in Ubisoft games over the past decade, but one major reason that I believe is the lack of care in cutscenes, or rather the lack of motion capture. We need to talk about it because it's affecting…
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