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Ubisoft debuted its new, ground-breaking intellectual property yesterday at E3. The new open-world action-adventure game is called Watch Dogs, and development of the title is being led by Ubisoft Montreal, with a team comprised of industry veterans from blockbuster franchises like Assassin’s Creed®, Rainbow 6® and Far Cry™.  Watch Dogs blends cutting-edge technologies and sophisticated game design into a realistic and living open world where players must use any means at their disposal to take down a corrupt system. Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic Arts Inc. has announced that EA SPORTS™ is bringing innovations to EA SPORTS Football Club that will elevate its role as soccer’s social network, and drive a deeper connection for millions of fans to the world’s sport, their friends and their favorite club when FIFA Soccer 13 launches this fall. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has unveiled the development of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist, the next blockbuster title in the critically acclaimed Tom Clancy franchise. The game will be available worldwide for the Xbox 360®, PlayStation®3 and Windows PC in spring 2013.

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Ubisoft and Sony Computer Entertainment have announced a partnership to give gamers exclusive content for Assassin’s Creed III on PlayStation®3 and for Assassin’s Creed III Liberation for PS Vita. SCE also will provide specially-priced bundles of each game for its systems. Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa-based video game and interactive media developer Snowed In Studios has officially announced the development of their first original PC-based title Windforge. Supported by the OMDC Interactive Digital Media Fund, Windforge is currently in development and is expected to be released later this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Guild Wars fan site GuildWars2Live, which presents live streaming events from the upcoming ArenaNet Guild Wars 2 game, will be announcing on the air today how gamers can have a chance to win one of 20 beta keys for the next GW2 beta weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

Independent developer Hothead Games has announced the release of an update for Big Win Soccer on the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store. The update includes the game’s localization in French, Italian, German, and Spanish, just in time for the Euro 2012 football championship build up. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft is giving gamers a one minute peek at Far Cry 3‘s E3 2012 trailer, with an invitation to watch the studio’s press conference live on June 4th at 3 pm Pacific Time, via YouTube as Far Cry 3 drags you into the depths of your psyche and the lawless jungle island. Read the rest of this entry »

The Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Rebellion Pack from Bioware opens two new fronts against the Reapers: Firebase Jade’s jungle reservoir and Firebase Goddess on Thessia. Available at no additional cost to players who have redeemed an online pass for Mass Effect 3, this new DLC pack will be available some time today on the XBL Marketplace – I just checked a few minutes ago, and it hadn’t yet been added to the list of game add-ons for ME3. Read the rest of this entry »

Celsius Game Studios, creator of critically-acclaimed iOS arcade space shooter Red Nova, is excited to announce that its upcoming space trading game Drifter, originally slated for an iOS-only release, will now be coming to the desktop as well thanks to crowd-funding site Kickstarter. Read the rest of this entry »