Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is weighing multiple acquisition offers for Arkane Studios, including from Ubisoft and at least two other unnamed companies, with a management buyout also under consideration. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the company is exploring options ahead of a December deadline but gave no further details. Arkane had been rumored as a possible target of Xbox's earlier layoffs and project cancellations.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-03
Ubisoft confirmed in a blog post that it has no additional Assassin's Creed remakes actively in production, despite the success of Black Flag Resynced. The company said its teams are instead focused on new mainline titles with fresh settings and stories, while remaining open to revisiting older games later. Ubisoft also detailed updates including New Game+ modes for Black Flag Resynced and Assassin's Creed Valhalla, plus progress on new projects Codename Invictus and Codename Hexe.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-29
fheroes2 is an open-source, multiplatform engine built from scratch to replicate Heroes of Might and Magic II, adding high-resolution graphics, improved AI, bug fixes and UI upgrades. The project, licensed under GPL v2.0, requires users to own the original game assets from GOG or Ubisoft Store, or a free demo, and does not distribute copyrighted content itself.
github.com
· 2026-10-25
MP1st published leaked gameplay and placeholder footage of what it describes as a canceled Assassin's Creed title called Assassin's Creed Destiny, reportedly developed by Ubisoft with Tencent and set in 206 BCE China during the Qin Empire. The footage shows wall-scaling, stealth kills, and combat options including an umbrella weapon, but the game appears to have been scrapped before release.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-17
Representative Ritchie Torres has proposed federal legislation that would direct the FTC to create rules guaranteeing that purchased video games are owned outright rather than licensed, and would require games with online-dependent features to offer offline modes before servers are shut down. Torres cites NBA 2K25, which is being pulled from digital stores on October 30 and losing its servers on December 31, as an example of the problem the bill targets.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-15
Ubisoft has proposed closing its Finnish studio RedLynx, affecting up to 52 positions, while cutting 70 roles at Ubisoft Singapore out of roughly 350 staff. Both studios had been supporting other Ubisoft projects under the company's Creative Network division. Ubisoft says the Singapore cuts are meant to align the studio with upcoming production needs.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-14
An update to Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown shows Ubisoft experimenting with a new feature called Ubisoft Connect Services, which links a player's Ubisoft account without forcing them to install the full Ubisoft Connect client. Ubisoft says more of its Steam titles will eventually get this option, though no rollout timeline has been given.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-11
Ubisoft announced that For Honor will stop working on SteamOS and Linux systems, including Steam Deck, starting September 10. The publisher says it is disabling Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux because it cannot adequately guarantee protection against cheaters on that platform, though it left open the possibility of restoring access later.
gamingonlinux.com
· 2026-09-01
Ubisoft apologized after shipping a digital release of Heroes of Might and Magic III and its expansions that contained no actual game data, just a 23.4-kilobyte file that produced an error on launch. The mistake sparked a wave of negative Steam reviews before Ubisoft issued a fix, which Engadget confirmed now runs properly.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-27
Ubisoft launched the original 1999 Heroes of Might and Magic III on Steam this week, but buyers found the install contained only about 23KB of data, including a placeholder executable, instead of the roughly 1GB game. Players flooded the reviews with jokes about the error before Ubisoft fixed the listing and uploaded the correct files the next day.
techspot.com
· 2026-08-27
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