Review by Matt S. My relationship with the classic board game, Risk, is a complex one. On the one hand, I do love the game on principle; it’s a board game, and I like board games. As social platforms to engage the mind, I believe that board games fulfill a…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. With Just Dance such a mainstay of the Ubisoft catalogue now, I guess it was inevitable that the Just brand would be taken to other places, and now we have Just Sing to look forward to. Related reading: Nick’s take on last year’s Just Dance, Just…
Read MorePreview by Pierre-Yves L. Ubisoft’s Champions of Anteria, which is in its earlier production stages and being developed by Blue Byte, was originally known as ‘The Settlers – Kingdoms of Anteria’. Even without its Settlers moniker, the game is an interesting and fun blend of classical genres, and does bring…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Ubisoft has today announced that it has a new Uno game in the works. Developed by one of Ubisoft’s Chinese studio in Chengdu, this new Uno is in development for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and it’s the kind of card game that it worth…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. I have to give Ubisoft credit, because at times it comes out with corkers, and they often come out of nowhere. Trials of the Blood Dragon is another example of the publisher being willing to take some chances with its existing properties. It’s not perfect, but…
Read MoreSay what you will about Ubisoft’s presentation at E3 this year, but it was certainly…unique. The show opened with a distinctly bananas dance performance featuring monocle-wearing giraffes, crabs, and angel-clowns prancing to Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now. Yes, really. This eventually led into Just Dance 2017. The game will be…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly news feature, Catch-up coffee Monday. Each Monday we will bring you the best news from the previous week that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Recently, Ubisoft announced that it was building its first development studio in the Philippines. With a team already established in Singapore, the global publisher already had a presence in South-East Asia, but for the Philippines this has represented a massive opportunity for the development of its…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. The Assassin’s Creed Chronicles games are a bit of an oddity in the franchise’s timeline. Developed by outsourced studio Climax Entertainment and released as a companion package to Assassin’s Creed Unity, the Chronicles titles are stealth action-platformers that take place on a 2.5D plane with self-contained…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. TrackMania is a series that made its name on PC and Nintendo consoles in the mid-2000s, without any such release on a Sony or Microsoft console for over ten years. After nine games in the series, that trend has finally been bucked with the release of…
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