Ubisoft cracks down on hate speech in ‘Rainbow Six: Siege’ matches

Ubisoft is joining the likes of Blizzard when it comes to stopping hate speech from spreading in matches held in Rainbow Six: Siege. The developer is now tracking how often players use hate speech in the game and issues bans on them accordingly. These could range from two days for lighter uses to permanent bans for those grievous offenders. And if you try to contest this, Ubisoft won’t beat around the bush and will tell you that you’ve been banned because of “toxicity.” This is apparently the “first step” towards controlling these kinds of bad behaviour on the platform and that there will be more in the future.

Source: Engadget

‘South Park: Phone Destroyer’ comes to Android and iOS on November 9th

Ubisoft just announced its bringing its latest South Park game called South Park: Phone Destroyer to mobile devices on November 9^th. The game lets you play everything from cowboys, pirates, wizards, cyborgs, to gods with Cartman, Stan, Kenny, and Kyle. It brings together real-time strategy and over 80 collectible cards to help you “fight across town” as a now fully customizable New Kid. You’ll need to collect, upgrade, and master this deck of characters to unearth their full potential while on the game’s battlefield. There is a single-player campaign with 60 story-driven, dialogue-filled levels as well as real-time player versus player matches.

Source: Ubiblog

‘Assassin’s Creed’ to get an animated adaptation

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Following the disappointing release of the Assassin’s Creed movie with Michael Fassbender, Ubisoft is trying another approach to adapt the game franchise into another medium. This time, they’re trying for an animation and it looks like it might be in good hands. According to producer Adi Shankar, he’ll be working on the animated version of Assassin’s Creed after he finishes work with Netflix’s Castlevania. It’s said to be an “original story” but he does have a tons of material to choose from if he takes inspiration from the game franchise itself. We don’t know what to expect with the series but we want to be cautiously optimistic about it.

Source: Engadget

‘Beyond Good & Evil 2’ finally gets first trailer at E3 2017

After almost 15 years since the original game, Ubisoft teases Beyond Good & Evil 2 at E3 2017. While not much else is known about the game, we get to anticipate what is coming soon. We can only say soon as we don’t know when Ubisoft plans to release the game and on what platforms it’ll be available on. The cinematic trailer has us following a monkey with a cybernetic hand racing through a futuristic cityscape after scamming a pig mob boss of sorts. The game is going to be a prequel of the original title and it’ll take us to a “stunning new solar system” where you “struggle for freedom and the right to determine your own fate among the stars.”

Source: The Verge