Tag: UBISOFT

A new video game that invites players to virtually participate in Mexico's ongoing cartel war has drawn criticism for glorifying the country's devastating gang violence. According to game developer Ubisoft, 'Call of Juarez: The Cartel' asks players to "take the law into (their) own hands" on a "bloody road trip from Los Angeles to Juarez" -- the Mexican city that has been ravaged by ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Megan Scheminske's 'You Are Here' series of paintings adopts the Google Maps aesthetic to illustrate locations from Davenport, Washington to Medway, Massachusetts. [From: Megan Scheminske] If early reports are any indication, 'Angry Birds' costumes may be this year's biggest ...

Michael Jackson may be dead, but your killer moonwalk doesn't have to be. At E3 yesterday, Ubisoft, the makers of 'Just Dance,' announced its latest creation: an "interactive, performance-based" game featuring none other than the King of Pop. As DailyCaller reports, the still-unnamed game will be among the first to feature the Kinect and Move motion-sensing camera systems for XBox 360 and ...

The holidays are over. The food has all been eaten, the alcohol drunk, and surely, by now, all those new video games beaten. But fear not! The year 2010 is here, and a slew of post-holiday releases will keep your thumbs sore well into the new year. Here are our picks for what to look out for in 2010. ...

Nintendo's leading the way into new markets for gaming, expanding beyond the typical young male players into the retirement home arena and, more recently, the female market. Ubisoft is the third party games publisher that seems to be making the strongest push in this area on Nintendo's DS handheld, which is selling just as many for men and women. Ubi is expanding its popular 'Imagine' franchise, ...

While we suggest getting real first aid and CPR training, a story out of Nebraska caught our eye. An avid player whose favorite game, 'America's Army,' has a whole first aid and triage-learning sequence, actually put his in-game skills to use at the scene of a real-life car accident late last year. Coming upon a flipped over SUV, one Paxton Galvanek correctly assessed the injured driver, began ...

If you were looking for a spy, where would you start. The baccarat table? A dark alley? A Washington D.C. parking garage? Xbox Live? That last place probably wouldn't be high on your list, but that's exactly where the British government is starting a recruitment campaign to find potential spies interested in employment. The ads will be embedded into the popular online game 'Tom Clancy's Splinter ...

Nintendo's is reveling in how well they're expanding the gaming market to non-gamers, and Ubisoft is hoping to do what they can to capitalize on all these newfound gamers with a series of games it's calling, unsurprisingly, "Games for Everyone." They keystone of this suite is the company's existing 'Petz' series, which lets gamers take care of virtual pets ala Nintendo's hugely popular ...