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For Honor – New Story Missions and New Heroes

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Mikel Reparaz | Editor | December 14, 2016

Vikings aren’t really big on subtlety, and that’s doubly true when they’re huge, shirtless, axe-wielding Vikings with rings in their braided beards. So when For Honor’s hulking Raider leads an assault on a bandit camp, it starts exactly the way you’d expect: he throws a sentry’s severed head at the front gates and then charges … Continued

Watch Dogs 2 – 10 Things We Learned From the First 4 Hours

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Mikel Reparaz | Editor | October 24, 2016

The release of Watch Dogs 2 is only a few weeks away, and last week we got our most comprehensive look at the game to date. At a special event in San Francisco, we started from the very beginning of the game and were then set loose for hours. We explored the open world, teamed … Continued

Watch Dogs 2 – 10 Ways It’s Bigger, Better, and Bolder than the Original

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Mikel Reparaz | Editor | September 23, 2016

The first Watch Dogs was as much a gritty revenge story as it was a hacker adventure, following the ever-grumpy Aiden Pearce on an odyssey through Chicago’s seamy – yet universally networked – underworld. Watch Dogs 2 is something else altogether, with big gameplay improvements and an overall sunnier outlook – and after we spent … Continued

Watch Dogs 2 – Bounty Hunter Brings Seamless Multiplayer Chaos to the Bay Area

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Mikel Reparaz | Editor | August 17, 2016

Multiplayer is an important part of Watch Dogs 2, so much so that our very first experience with the game included a co-op mission that began when another player seamlessly wandered into our single-player session. This sort of integrated cooperation ties in loosely with the game’s storyline – as members of hacktivist collective DedSec, you’re … Continued

Steep – How You’ll Go From Scrub to Ski Legend

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Mikel Reparaz | Editor | June 21, 2016

Combining winter action sports with open-world freedom, Steep is a downhill thrill ride that lets players carve their own paths through the Alps with skis, snowboards, wingsuits, and paragliders. With all that freedom, though, what will progression be like? What can you do besides explore a mountain at high speeds? As it turns out, exploration … Continued

For Honor – Parallel Paths from the Story Campaign Offer Surprises

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Giancarlo Varanini | Senior Communications Manager | June 15, 2016

For Honor’s showing at E3 2016 has been an impressive one, revealing more about two of its warriors, the Knights and Vikings, and their respective campaigns. The UbiBlog had a chance to play both portions of the demo, and came away with some new thoughts on For Honor, its world, and its unique approach to … Continued

Watch Dogs 2 – Drones, Explosives, and New Ways to Hack

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Mikel Reparaz | Editor | June 13, 2016

Watch Dogs 2’s approach to its open world is different from what you might expect in most games. Instead of just handing you your quests, it tasks you with finding them through exploration and then tracking them through your phone’s DedSec app. The anomalies that lead to missions are represented by orange blooms that you … Continued

Far Cry Primal – Cannibals, Sun Walkers and the Story of Oros

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Mikel Reparaz | Editor | January 26, 2016

We spend a few hours with Far Cry Primal to learn more about who leads the enemy factions, and how to begin a civilization in an untamed world.

Rainbow Six Siege – New Operators and Devious White Masks in the Closed Beta

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Mikel Reparaz | Editor | September 24, 2015

A few hours in the closed beta teaches us the value of teamwork and the folly of underestimating the White Masks.

Rainbow Six Siege – The Tactical AI of TerroHunt

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Anne Lewis | Communications Specialist | June 18, 2015

The AI in Rainbow Six Siege is smarter than ever before, and the threat they pose is ratcheted up even higher when you try to take them on in TerroHunt’s brutal Realistic difficulty setting.