Ubisoft held its second Ubisoft Forward event for 2020 early Friday morning. The showcase featured Immortals: Fenyx Rising, Watch Dogs: Legion, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake and more.
Prior to the event, Ubisoft attempted to address the current mass allegations of misconduct sweeping their company and problematic issues that had arisen from the release of Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad.
A video was posted to Twitter prior to the event where CEO Yves Guillemot apologised for the allegations of misconduct and spoke about what the company shall be doing in the future to prevent such things from happening again. Guillemot also said that the company shall be putting one million dollars into a program that will, over the next five years, bring in more developers from under-represented groups to Ubisoft. Guillemot also called the recent inclusion of the Black Lives Matter symbol in the opening cinematic for Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad as an “oversight,” and also said that Ubisoft “fully supports the Black Lives Matter movement.”
You can watch the full video below.
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When asked by a Twitter user why this message didn’t open the Ubisoft Forward event, Ubisoft said the following:
“We hear you, due to timing constraints, we chose to release the video as a standalone message before our #UbiForward event, but we are working to ensure it will be available in full in the VOD versions of the show.
Just to be clear: this events date and time were picked by them and there is no reason they couldn’t include it in the actual presentation.
The pre-show kicked off a couple of hours after this Twitter video was posted.
Here’s everything that was announced during the pre-show.
Quick bits from the pre-show:
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Notre Dame In Paris: A Journey Back In Time – a free VR experience and recreation of the Notre Dame using the work Ubisoft had done on Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Out now.
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The Crew 2 Updates Coming
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Ghost Recon: Breakpoint gets new story content on September 15
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Roller Champions is on-track to release early in 2021.
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Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp in development
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For Honour’s next season is coming on September 17th.
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The Division 2’s next update adds ‘Summit’ which they have recently shown off in their own Division event.
AGOS: A Game of Space
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I think this was the secret game teased in Watch Dogs 2. It’s coming to Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Valve Index on October 28th.
Far Cry VR: Dive Into Insanity
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Remember when Michael Mando was teasing a return of Vaas from Far Cry 3? This is it. A location-based VR experience that’ll launch in 22 countries in 2021.
Karma
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An indie game being published by Ubisoft.
Here’s everything that was announced and show off during the main show.
Immortals: Fenyx Rising
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A cinematic trailer kicked off the show before a gameplay overview explained what exactly Immortals Fenyx: Rising is about. It’s a massive Greek mythology mashup were you play as Fenyx and must help save the gods from Typhon the titan.
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake
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After leaking the night prior to the show, the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake was officially revealed.
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Hyper Scape – Turbo Mode
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A limited-time mode is coming to Hyper Scape called ‘turbo mode’ All gear will be maxed out when you find it and health regenerates much faster.
Because he can be in every game but his own, apparently. Splinter Cell’s Sam Fisher is the next agent being added to Rainbow Six and he’s out right now.
The game has been missing for six years following a delisting but it’s finally returning as a ‘complete edition.’
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Stomzy is getting his own mission in Watch Dogs Legion and the protagonist of the first game, Aiden Pierce is coming back in DLC.
This is more-or-less Steep 2. It’s a massively multiplayer experience built around social gatherings and competition for the thrill-seekers.
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The showcase ended with the news that another Ubisoft Forward event will be coming later in 2020.
Let me know your favourite trailer or piece of news out of the event in the comments section below.
