Ubisoft Forward stream confirmed for June during Summer Game Fest 2024

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has received a new update that adds a 40 FPS mode for players on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. Ubisoft's latest open world adventure game, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora was released just before the end of 2023 and has mainly been praised for its stunning first-person visuals. Set in the timeline of the blockbuster films, Frontiers of Pandora gives players control of a young Na'vi as they escape and fight back against the RDA.

The future of the Watch Dogs franchise appears shaky following a new rumor suggesting Ubisoft has canceled several projects related to the series. This news comes after the middling critical and commercial reception of the last entry in the Watch Dogs franchise, 2020's Legion.

A reliable Ubisoft leaker has claimed that Watch Dogs is "dead and buried" as a series, so don't get your hopes up about seeing Marcus, Wrench, and Aiden again.

Cillian Murphy could star in Far Cry 7, following on from Giancarlo Esposito's turn as the villain in Far Cry 6.

Valiant Hearts: Coming Home is finally set to debut on Steam. The sequel to Valiant Hearts: The Great War has been out for over a year, though it remained inaccessible to PC gamers for the majority of that time.

Rainbow Six Siege's «Reputation» mechanic is still reportedly seeing a number of problems with its implementation, notably incorrectly flagging players for harmful in-game behavior. Honor systems have been a staple of plenty of online games, encouraging players to practice good sportsmanship and treat fellow players with respect. Competitive games like League of Legends have often featured special rewards tied to honor systems, including Chests for players to acquire new League of Legends skins. Now, Siege's honor system is seeing a few hiccups.

Since unveiling the eye-watering $130 Ultimate Edition of Star Wars Outlaws last week, Ubisoft has been under fire from fans furious a full-priced single-player game would even warrant a Season Pass in the first place. Worse, acquiring the Season Pass is the only way to «play the exclusive Jabba's Gambit mission at launch».

Ubisoft has released a free trial for Assassin’s Creed Mirage on PC and consoles.

The games industry continues to hit us with depressing lessons of how fickle digital ownership can be, with everything from DRM to servers being taken down and more serving as constant threats to your ownership of games you’ve purchased with your hard-earned money. Another game is now seemingly hammering that point home.

Ubisoft is joining forces with Intel to promote both the upcoming Star Wars Outlaws and the latest line of Intel Core processors. Star Wars Outaws will take players into the seedy criminal underbelly of the Galaxy Far, Far Away in an open-world adventure from Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora developer Massive Entertainment. As aspiring smuggler Kay Vess, fans will be able to explore multiple Star Wars planets and complete tasks for infamous gangs like the Crimson Dawn and the Hutt family, all while avoiding the forces of the Galactic Empire at the height of its tyranny.

We haven't seen much of Star Wars Outlaws since its big debut last summer, but it looks like we won't have to wait for the 2024 Summer Game Fest schedule for more. Ubisoft has just announced a big story trailer for the upcoming Star Wars game, and it's landing very, very soon.

Ubisoft is the latest company to reveal its not-E3 livestream for the upcoming summer months, with its live and in-person event set to take place on 10th June 2024. That is three days after Summer Game Fest streams live from the YouTube Theatre, fronted by Geoff Keighley. Ubisoft teases it'll have «updates and upcoming releases» to show.