During Ubisoft’s third quarter financial results investor phone call today, company president Yves Guillemot confirmed that there would be a new packaged Assassin’s Creed game coming this year, with more details coming in May.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot assured me today that work continues, has never stopped, on the highly anticipated sequel to 2003′s Beyond Good & Evil.
Answering a question about downloadable content during their fiscal year 2009-10 fiscal earnings call, Ubisoft indicated it would likely they would adopt EA’s Project 10 Dollar DLC plan sometime in the future.
When a game is as oft-delayed as Ubisoft’s I Am Alive, it raises questions. Has it been cancelled? Are there production issues? Does it need a better title? All of those are valid, but only one is the actual reason.
Earlier today, publisher Ubisoft warned that it wasn’t going to have quite the year it was expecting, in part due to big delays, in part due to its efforts on the Nintendo DS and Wii. So it’s changing course.
French publisher Ubisoft, no stranger to waggle, is getting behind Microsoft’s Project Natal in a major way, with “around 10 games” planned for the Xbox 360′s hands-free motion controller. And it has similar designs on PlayStation 3 motion controller support.
Ubisoft chairman Yves Guillemot told a group of investors and industry executives in New York today at the BMO Capital Markets digital entertainment conference, that the publisher of Assassin’s Creed is developing games in new genres for the company, including RPGs, sports, music and fighting games.
