Two years ago, South Park introduced many of its watchers to yaoi. It's a Japanese genre of anime/manga that fictionalizes a romantic relationship between males. Boys' love, basically. In Season 19 Episode 6, the Asian girls at school ...

In one of this season's episodes of South Park, Randy Marsh remarks "You have to overdo it in today's society. You can't be nuanced and subtle anymore or else critics go 'Wow, what was the point of that?'" It's a slice of meta-observation a...

After years of delays and setbacks, South Park: The Fractured But Whole will finally be landing on consoles this Tuesday. The verdict is still out on whether that extra time was well spent, but if you just have to have everything South Park...

I'm not sure how many people stuck with Steep, but those folks must exist. Ubisoft's doing an expansion, Road to the Olympics, later this year. It'll have a separate story mode centered on a hopeful young athlete training "to reach the Olym...

Designer Michel Ancel has given us Rayman fans something to daydream about: the prospect of an eventual new installment in the platformer series. Writing on Instagram as he's wont to do, Ancel said that "After Wild, after BGE2, we'll need t...

The first major appearance of loot boxes in the western marketplace was in September 2010, when Valve transitioned Team Fortress 2 from a pay-once model to a free-to-play model. Players could earn "crates" that could be opened with purchasa...

GameStop are running an animated advert for Ubisoft's upcoming title Assassin's Creed Origins that's either completely hypocritical to its own practices, or blatantly tone-deaf to its consumers.In the ad, we get a shot of protagonist Beyak ...

Starting this Thursday until Sunday (October 12-15), Ghost Recon Wildlands will be going free to play on Ubisoft's Uplay service. The free weekend will be celebrating the game's brand new Team Deathmatch mode known as “Ghost War.&rdqu...

The amount of triple A games that have embraced loot boxes is staggering. Not only have games been slowly expanding with DLC and seemingly cutting content to sell back to players later, but now games are being intentionally made with a bori...

Another day, another season pass. I suppose I should be used the inevitable announcement of these things, but I'm still not really sold on the idea of extra content being factored into the development process. At least for Assassin's Creed:...

Assassin's Creed has been gone for a while. Or at least, that's how it felt after receiving a new installment every year from 2009 up until 2015. The series had grown stale after years of familiar, safe games, so when Ubisoft decided to hol...

Hey, hi, hello! What’s up? How are you doing?! That’s great. Glad we got that out of the way... My name is Britney J, and you’re gonna be seeing me here more and more often from now on… I am so sorry. Among a team ...

Despite queuing for entrance on each of the days I attended EGX, and even standing in line for Super Mario Odyssey on its UK debut, the queue for Assassin's Creed Origins was easily the longest line in terms of duration (though it still see...

Before I get started on my long-winded tangent down below, let me go over the basic events that inspired it. Vivendi is currently trying to decide if a Ubisoft takeover is even worth it. I've always assumed, like most sane individuals, that...

I often write about about items available to those with money to burn. I enjoy seeing what tat is available to the incredibly bored and wealthy. But today, I think I'm gonna peak.A set of Assassin's Creed Origins-themed headphones, from Foc...

Assassin's Creed Origins will be getting an educational mode in early 2018. The combat and action will be removed so players can learn about life in Ptolemaic Egypt. The mode is titled "Discovery Tour" and players who own the base game, set...

South Park was once a global phenomenon like none other. Those who can remember its launch years in the late '90s will remember what a rating-popping, merchandise-selling juggernaut it was, as well as its reputation for being the most off...

After numerous delays, several off-the-wall demos, and a dash of biting political commentary, South Park: The Fractured But Whole has finally gone gold. Ubisoft decided to celebrate the milestone by releasing a brand-new trailer that makes ...

Contrary to what we've been led to believe, the Rabbids are perfectly welcome in the Mushroom Kingdom. Their invasion hasn't been chaotic and destructive, but prosperous instead. Turns out merging the two wasn't a bad idea at all. According...

I've been a huge fan of Rayman's revival period. After the Rabbids spun off into their own universe (which even got big enough to crossover with Mario recently), and Rayman fell into relative obscurity, I was extremely delighted to play thr...

Atomega is devilishly simple. Its premise and its gameplay loop are exactly the same: Get big so you can get bigger. It's a race to the top of the food chain. There isn't anything to overthink. Sometimes less is more. But, sometimes mo...

This new trailer for Assassin's Creed: Origins makes one thing abundantly clear: Protagonist Bayek doesn't really know who he'll be fighting. A secret organization called The Order of the Ancients runs Egypt from the shadows. They hav...

Have you always wanted to try out Tom Clancy's The Division but never found the opportunity in the one and a half years since its release? Well now you can, gratis, as the Ubisoft shooter is free to play, this weekend, for PC gamers.Startin...

Bigger is better in the new game from Ubisoft Reflections. The developer that's best known for Grow Home and Grow Up, adventures that see a little robot trying to ascend as high as possible, has just announced a multiplayer shooter th...

They're killing gods with peach pits. An ill bull was the motivator for my PAX West demo with Assassin's Creed: Origins, as he was a worshiped deity in ancient Egypt. Peach pits are apparently toxic when ingested. This livestock was on the...