Ubisoft confirms it is working on a new Ghost Recon game, and it sure looks like it’ll be a live service affair

Ubisoft has confirmed that a new Ghost Recon game is in the works—the first entry in the series since 2019’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. During Ubisoft’s annual general shareholders’ meeting (via Game File) CEO Yves Guillemot was asked about the publisher’s history making live service games. Guillemot responded by pointing to the success of Rainbow Six:…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, July 19

Feel free to use our clue for today’s Wordle whenever you’re feeling a bit stuck. Unleash it right at the start if you’re not sure what sort of opening word you’d like to go for, and don’t worry about spoiling the fun—it’s written to help, not immediately give the game away. You could always save…

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I’ve been boppin’ along to Final Fantasy 14’s disco raid theme for months without realizing it’s an anthem for existential burnout

You know that part in Barbie The Movie where the beloved bubbly doll played by Margot Robbie totally kills the dancefloor fun by asking, “Do you guys ever think about dying?” like it’s the most normal question to ask mid-bop? That’s what Final Fantasy 14 has done to me with Dancing Green’s theme song, Ride…

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake will launch ‘very soon,’ Ubisoft exec says, but he also namedropped Splinter Cell for no apparent reason so maybe he’s still just messing with us

It’s been five years since the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake first leaked out of the Russian Uplay store, and while plenty has happened since then, one thing that definitely has not happened is the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. It’s basically Skull and Bones redux: Repeated delays, a…

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I’ve been obsessed with a single dialogue choice in an underappreciated Obsidian game for 10 years, so I tracked down the guy who wrote it to learn everything about my favorite joke in RPG history

For ten years, I’ve been obsessed with a single dialogue choice (really a collection of choices) at the beginning of Pillars of Eternity’s first expansion, The White March: Part One. Once you’ve finished beating back an ogre attack on the town of Stalwart, you’re free to poke around, meet the residents, accept side quests, all…

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Rainbow Six Siege pro arrested for participating in alleged kidnap and torture of a man for three months in Japan

Rainbow Six Siege pro Sho “BlackRay” Hasegawa of the Japanese CAG Osaka esports organization has been arrested along with six others for allegedly kidnapping and confining a man for a period of three months, during which time they tortured him and extorted around 2 million yen ($13,000). A machine-translated report by Jiji.com (via SiegeGG) says…

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