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The Best Cloud Gaming Services, Ranked

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Availability Screenshot: Boosteroid Boosteroid is another service that lets you play games on cloud servers. The service has a European focus, and most of the prices are in Euros. In the U.S., there are servers available in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Texas, Illinois, Florida, and Washington. The app is available across Windows, Mac, Chromebook, and Linux, … Read more

Ubisoft Returns To the Movies With a Watch Dogs Adaptation

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Image: Ubisoft Almost a decade ago, Ubisot tried to make a new for itself as a movie company by bringing its Assassin’s Creed franchise to the big screen. That didn’t go particularly well, and though we got the fairly solid Werewolves Within a few years later, the French publisher has (sort of) pivoted to TV. … Read more

Nvidia’s AI NPCs Could Be the Future of Gaming But It Needs Some Work

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The AI knows me as Kai, a bounty hunter in some vague cyberpunk city known as Kairos. Oh, but I am much more than that. I strolled into a ramen shop owned by the dull, affable Jin and patronized by the dull, professional Nova, and I weaved a yarn. I am not only a bounty … Read more

Ubisoft apparently stopped a 900GB data breach

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Just days after Insomniac suffered a horrible data breach, Ubisoft may have avoided the same fate. Security collective VX-Underground shared a report on X (formerly Twitter) that, on Dec. 20, an “unknown Threat Actor” got access to Ubisoft’s internal tools, sharing screenshots online. They allegedly intended to get 900GB worth of data from the French … Read more

Ubisoft blames ‘technical error’ for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed

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Ubisoft is blaming an unspecified “technical error” for a fullscreen pop-up ad that appeared in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey this week. Reddit users say they spotted the pop-up on Xbox and PlayStation versions of the game, with an ad appearing just when you navigate to the map screen. “This is disgusting to experience while playing,” remarked … Read more

7 Things We Liked, and 3 We Didn’t

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Image: Netflix Scott takes off, because, of course—almost as quickly established as it’s introduced—he doesn’t really die fighting Matthew at the end of the first episode. It’s eventually revealed to the audience, and through Ramona’s own investigation over the course of the season, that Scott has been kidnapped… by none other than his future self … Read more

Google Denies That Its ‘Project Hug’ Bribed 20 Developers

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Google executives defended its internal campaign “Project Hug,” which enticed 20 developers to not create app stores competitive with Google Play according to Epic Games, in an ongoing trial Thursday. No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Purnima Kochikar, Google’s vice president of play, took the stand Thursday … Read more

Netflix’s Captain Laserhawk Kind of Rules, Actually

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These days, pretty much any video game is ripe to be adapted for a movie or TV show. But that didn’t make it any less odd when it was revealed Netflix was aiming to make a cartoon out of 2013’s Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, a retrofuture parody of 80s action media. That fondly remembered … Read more

Creator Adi Shankar on Ubisoft & ‘Gameboypunk’

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ComingSoon Senior Editor Spencer Legacy spoke with Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix creator Adi Shankar about Netflix‘s Ubisoft franchise-oriented animated series. Shankar discussed the process of adapting beloved characters and the show’s unique aesthetic. The series is now available to stream on Netflix. “The year is 1992. The country formerly known as the USA … Read more