Everything you need to know to preorder Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection for Nintendo Switch, including what games are included, where it's available, and more.

Ubisoft is developing a new location-based VR escape room, putting players right in the middle of the 2019 fires at the Notre-Dame cathedral.

A new alien threat awaits with the release of Ubisoft Montreal’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction. As players get ready to fight the Archaeans, Gamers Heroes takes a look at a cosplay from Tom Clancy’s The Division.

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Rainbow Six Extraction takes the fraught SWAT vs. terrorists action found throughout the rest of the popular shooter series and replaces that particular threat to modern life with something completely out of this world. Aliens. There’s aliens in a Tom Clancy game. The “Archaean” menace has emerged in a handful of locations around the world, first in New York City, then in San Francisco and beyond, with Rainbow Six Operators coordinating under the REACT backronym to contain, study and eventually eradicate this threat. Thankfully, these aren’t aliens rocking up with a great big space ship and blowing up the White House and Pyramids, but rather the kind of aliens that will happily nest and mill around until a danger presents itself. As Rainbow’s elite operators, you’re having to head into an alien-infested hot zones – or “la zona caliente”, as one character calls them, Ubisoft ticking the big box for diversity with a crayon. If you want an idea as to how much playable content there is, Rainbow Six Extraction features four regions that each house three hot zones where you’ll be deployed. Each of these incursions gives your team of three a trio of tasks to complete as you move from one part of the map to the next, from taking down elite enemies, to destroying special spawning pods, rescuing humans, and the like. The immediate inclination of most gamers would be to run into the fray head first, but that’s really not the best way to go about things. Instead, you still need to play it a bit like Rainbow Six Siege shooter, and can rely on many of the same tools. In particular, the default gear gives players a recon drone that lets you scout ahead and mark aliens for team, and you can reinforce walls and doorways for when objectives need you to defend certain points. You can pick up the pace somewhat, though. The Archaeans are a pretty dopey bunch as you saunter into the levels, milling around like zombies until they spot you or are alerted by explosions and gunfire. Even then, they’re predominantly melee and explosive enemies that need to get close up, while spawn pods sprout on floors, walls and ceilings to add enemies to an area once they’re alerted. By and large, this means that, even when things do get spicy in the opening locations, you can deal with the danger. It’s only certain enemies that will fire from range, and while you don’t have automatically recharging health, you can take a decent bit of damage. Old school Rainbow Six this is not! Perhaps the most interesting system within Rainbow Six Extraction is that there’s persistence between rounds. Your characters will need to heal up if you come out having taken a fair bit of damage, and if you’re KO’d and your team wipes or isn’t able to extract your body, then that character will be MIA and need rescuing in a later incursion. It’s a smart system that forces you to mix things up with character selection, and provides some light stakes to mission failure. If all of your characters are left MIA, then the first one you lost will be unlocked so you can still play. There’s some good ideas at play here, and it’s competently put together, but so far Rainbow Six Extraction feels fairly flat. The Archaeans simply aren’t all that interesting to fight against, their designs rather bland, and their introduction sitting at odds with what the Rainbow Six and Tom Clancy franchises have been about since the late 90s. It’s an inoffensive tactical co-op that’s good for a few short and sharp missions, but is that enough? We’ll report back soon with our full review. Rainbow Six Extraction is available from 20th January on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, as well Google Stadia and Amazon Luna. You can also grab it via Xbox Game Pass.

Some Triple A’s have been very successful in recent years. So much so that if you love video games you have to play them yes or yes. More now that they are on sale. “Triple-A” is a basic concept in the world of video games. With it, high-budget games are defined and that, generally, reap […]

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Need for Speed! Dead by Daylight! Tetris!

A brand new sale has just appeared on the European PlayStation Store, bringing a wide selection of games under the £20 mark. PS5, but mostly PS4, software is included here, with some pretty huge discounts available. The promotion has yet to hit the North American PS Store, but it'll just be a matter of time.

Anyway, let's have a look at what we can get on the cheap, yeah? Some big names you might know include Need for Speed Heat (£11.99/$11.99), Dead by Daylight (£12.49/$14.99, including both platforms), and The Crew 2's special edition (£9.59/$11.99). Ubisoft is pretty heavily featured, actually — Assassin's Creed Origins is down to £12.49/$14.99, The Ezio Collection is just £9.99/$11.99, and Rainbow Six Siege (deluxe edition) is going for £7.49/$9.99.

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Ubisoft is preparing to reveal a new For Honor hero this week. The latest fighter to join the game’s ever-growing roster will be unveiled during an upcoming Warrior’s Den stream. This stream can be caught over on Twitch at 5PM GMT, January 20, 2022, and should give us an in-depth look at the hero’s design, lore, weapon, and moveset. Ubisoft has confirmed that this latest addition to For Honor will arrive a week later on January 27, 2022, as we close out Year 5 Season 4. What do we know about this new hero? The teaser video doesn’t give us a clear look, though they appear to be wielding a short sword – maybe a cutlass? There definitely seems to be a pirate theme to the new season as hinted at in the latest lore entry: The people of Heathmoor were afflicted with rising waters and a devastating storm that flooded the landscape. Thankfully, the storm passed, and though the skies began to clear, a cold winter settled in. The high waters froze, and snow covered the terrain. Ships were stuck in the ice, which only added to the odd serenity that had befallen Heathmoor. After so many hardships, so many battles and natural catastrophes, the people took this small respite as an opportunity to reconnect. After being separated for so long, friends and families were reunited once again, and everyone took the time to count their blessings, and celebrate. But amid the festivities, something unforeseen came from the frozen sea. A large ship with red sails reached the harbor, the herald of uncertainty – and intrigue. Naturally, fans of the fighting game are already asking what comes next. For Honor is fast approaching its fifth birthday which raises questions as to whether we can expect a Year 6 roadmap loaded with fresh content. The arrival of new heroes, maps, and modes has slowed over time. 2021 brought us the Kyoshin whereas 2020 saw Apollyon, and the wandering mercenary, Gryphon, make their debut. That said, the team at Ubisoft Montreal have been tirelessly looking to tweak and rebalance its sizeable cast of fighters, each with their own unique fighting styles. Hopefully the upcoming stream will give us a tiny glimpse of what to expect throughout the year.

The game will serve as an official tie-in to an upcoming docudrama about the 2019 fire. Critically-acclaimed video game studio Ubisoft (Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Prince of Persia) this week announced a partnership with film production and distribution company Pathé to develop a new location-based VR escape game that has you playing the role of […]

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Try to contain your excitement for blasting through Extraction's dangerous containment zones.

If you're looking to do some quick cosplay as the least-interesting character in Ubisoft's Watch Dogs series, then fashion brand SuperGroupies has you covered. The company is releasing a watch, coat, bag, and wallet that has been inspired by the vigilante fashion of Watch Dogs' first protagonist, Aiden Pearce, with preorders opening up from today and until February 6.

The main piece of this ensemble, a $230 coat, is modeled after the one used in-game by Aiden Pearce and stylized for daily use. It also comes with a black mask cover imitating Aiden's neckwarmer scarf that doubles as a hacktivist disguise. Don't do crime though; that's strictly illegal stuff.

Gotta look hacktastic

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Moving on to the accessories, you can keep time with a $220 chronograph watch that has a black and white view of Chicago from the ctOS on the main dial and an "Everything is Under CTRL" metallic inscription. The 60-minute and 60-second chronograph counters also sport a DedSec logo-inspired ASCII art skull emblem and the Fox symbol respectively.

Lastly, the bag and wallet will be available for $150 and $110 respectively. The coat, bag, and wallet are expected to ship in late June this year, while the watch will arrive later in August.

Watch Dogs: Legion hasn't been in the news much since it launched in late 2020. Aside from a few updates, a crossover with Assassin's Creed, and downloadable campaign content that starred Pearce, the game's last notable addition was Legion of the Dead. A free update available to all players, Legion of the Dead tasks teams of four players to survive a zombie horde that has infested the streets of London, and escape with as many supplies as possible.