Ubisoft Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

New Prince of Persia on the way to iOS this summer

by Mike Schramm (Apr 12th, 2013)

Here's a nice blast from the past: Ubisoft has announced new Prince of Persia game, which is a remake of the second title in the series, made specifically for smartphones and tablets. Prince of Persia: The Shadow and the Flame is being remade as a 2.5D action title -- it seems to feature the ...

Daily iPhone App: Rayman Jungle Run

by Mike Schramm (Oct 1st, 2012)

Rayman Jungle Run is the kind of iOS game that should be terrible. It looks from the outset like a blatant cash grab by Ubisoft, re-using the various sounds, graphics and gameplay from its popular Rayman Origins console platformer on iOS. But here's the thing: Rayman Origins is such a gorgeous ...

Daily iPad App: Michael Jackson The Experience HD

by Mike Schramm (Dec 12th, 2011)

Ubisoft released a version of its Michael Jackson Experience game for iOS recently, and it's actually a pretty good time. The game was originally created for motion controls with the Xbox Kinect, the Wii, and the PlayStation Move, but here on the iPad, you "dance" by swiping across the screen ...

Ubisoft acquires RedLynx, developer of Thousand Heroes and DrawRace 2 for iOS

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd, 2011)

Game developer Ubisoft, publishers of some of the biggest franchises on HD consoles, has picked up developer RedLynx, makers of XBLA's great Trials HD, as well as a few solid iOS titles, including Thousand Heroes and the excellent DrawRace 2. Ubisoft says it will use the purchase to both ...

Play Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard (kind of) with this interactive trailer

by Mike Schramm (Mar 16th, 2011)

This is a new one -- in order to promote its new iOS title, Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard (coming to the App Store tomorrow), Gameloft has put together this interactive trailer over on YouTube. Not only does the trailer show off some gameplay of the upcoming title, but it also allows you to ...

TUAW's Daily App: Rayman 2: The Great Escape

by Mike Schramm (Feb 14th, 2011)

For a few different reasons (the recent Verizon iPhone release probably being the primary one), Valentine's Day has become another holiday for big sales on the App Store. We covered quite a few titles on sale last week, and of those, Rayman 2 is the one I'll recommend today. It's a port of an old ...

Boggle for iPad and Might & Magic HK out now, Star Wars Tower Defense coming soon

by Mike Schramm (May 29th, 2010)

Here are a few games to try out over the holiday weekend. Boggle for iPad has been released by EA. I got to play the game at an event last week, and while the core functionality isn't much different than that of Bookworm or its many clones, the bright, full iPad graphics are impressive. Outside of ...

Assassin's Creed II multiplayer, Rayman 2 out now on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Mar 1st, 2010)

Two major league games have hit the App Store already this week, one of them for the surprise price of free. Ubisoft has released the multiplayer version of their Assassin's Creed II game on the App Store, and it's available for free for the first 48 hours. The game's a top-down multiplayer game ...

Gameloft says they've got iPhone locked down

by Mike Schramm (Feb 20th, 2010)

Gameloft is one of the bigger iPhone-specific (or at least mobile-specific) game developers out there, and in fact they're so big, they tell Mobile Entertainment that they're not scared of their development partner Ubisoft and other big game developers headed to the iPhone. Ubisoft developed the ...

GTA tops the list, and other game news

by Mike Schramm (Jan 20th, 2010)

For some reason there's a flood of gaming news coming from the App Store this afternoon. So we've rounded it up for you to take in all in one read: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars [iTunes link] has reached the top-grossing spot on the store in just two days, which means it's probably taken over ...

Transgaming to use SecuROM for Cider games

by Mike Schramm (Aug 21st, 2008)

As if Mac gaming needed more problems getting off the ground. Transgaming has proudly announced that in the future, their games will include Sony's SecuROM digital rights management software. They don't mention which games will be getting the extremely restrictive DRM (that some folks have compared ...

Transgaming makes deal with Ubisoft

by Mike Schramm (Jul 3rd, 2008)

First EA, and now gaming giant Ubisoft has inked a deal with Transgaming to wrap their titles in Cider and port them over to the Mac. Which seems like great news -- Ubisoft has a huge number of quality titles, and bringing those to the Mac must be great for gamers who appreciate a better operating ...