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If it's as ludicrously cold where you are as it is where we are, you should consider buying Far Cry 3 on Amazon today for $34.99. While it's not that vacation to Tahiti you've been saving for, the tropical island in Ubisoft's open-shooter sure looks warm, and maybe that virtual warmth will osmose through the screen and into your near-frozen frame.

That Far Cry 3 price is the deal of the day in Amazon's all-day, all-video-games Gold Box event. The first Lightning deal is already up, knocking the Plantronics Gamecom X95 wireless headset down to $49.99. The full list of upcoming deals teases discounts on the way for NHL 13, Hitman: Absolution, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, and NBA Baller Beats. Well, the NBA Baller Beats deal isn't so much teased as it just says the game's name. It's just too cold to come up with a riddle for everything, you know.

Ubisoft has revealed a handful of pre-order bonuses for the standalone Might & Magic Heroes 6 expansion, Shades of Darkness. Pre-ordering the $30 package directly from Ubisoft will net you several in-game items, including the hero Belketh - who looks just a bit like the Grim Reaper - as well as four special weapons.

Shades of Darkness will be released on February 28. Check out the trailer above for a peek at its story (just be sure to set your monitor to "maximum cheese").

#ubisoft Arnaud Kotelnikoff is an artist who has been working in the video game business since 1996, beginning his career with Ubisoft before moving onto work with companies like Gameloft and Tokyo-based Nintendo subsidiary Nd Cube. More »

Following up on yesterday's announcement that Splinter Cell: Blacklist will be ready for action on August 20 in North America, Ubisoft announced today the game will be available in the UK on "23.08.13." Our best decryption team has deciphered this as August 23, 2013.

Trials Evolution: Gold Edition will land (head first) on PC starting March 21. The game bundles up the previously Xbox-exclusive Trials Evolution and all the levels from its predecessor, Trials HD, into one big, bone-crushing package. Gold Edition features the same extensive level editor, allowing players to come up with all kinds of creations, including ones that have nothing to do with racing at all.

Trials Evolution: Gold Edition will be available both via retail and download services. Check out a new trailer above.

IGN points out some stealthy implications for Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Take a look at what they found.

Splinter Cell: Blacklist is shooting to retailers for PS3, Xbox 360 (with Kinect support) and PC on August 20, Ubisoft announced today.

Blacklist is available for pre-order starting today. Orders from GameStop, Best Buy and Amazon snag the same lineup of bonus content: The Dead Coast co-op map, Upper Echelon suit and gold sonar goggles. Pre-orders from Uplay get undetermined "exclusive bonus content."

Splinter Cell: Blacklist, the first game in the series to be developed by Ubisoft Toronto, previously held a spring 2013 release window.

Protecting the president is just one part of Sam Fisher's global ambitions. Check out this latest trailer for Splinter Cell: Blacklist, which now has a new release date!

Ubisoft has revealed a handful of pre-order bonuses for the standalone Might & Magic Heroes 6 expansion, Shades of Darkness. Pre-ordering the $30 package directly from Ubisoft will net you several in-game items, including the hero Belketh - who looks just a bit like the Grim Reaper - as well as four special weapons.

Shades of Darkness will be released on February 28. Check out the trailer above for a peek at its story (just be sure to set your monitor to "maximum cheese").

Ubisoft submitted a new trademark earlier this year for the seemingly abandoned Killing Day, a first-person shooter which first surfaced at E3 2005 as a demonstration trailer for the then upcoming PlayStation 3.

The demo, only half a minute long, showcased a FPS with dual-wield pistols and a heavy emphasis on destructible environments, with statues shattering into pieces and enemies falling through broken glass. After confirming it for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Ubisoft cancelled Killing Day in 2006.

This isn't the first time Ubisoft filed a Killing Day trademark post-cancellation. Ubisoft did the same back in 2009, then abandoned the trademark in 2012. Outside of that, there's not been a peep about the game since its cancellation some six years ago.

All of which makes it curious to see Ubisoft retain the trademark now. When approached about the trademark, an Ubisoft rep told us, "No comment for now."

Free 'High Tides' co-op content for Far Cry 3 is washing up on PlayStation Network shores on Tuesday, January 15. The PS3-exclusive DLC includes two chapters, Jailbreak and Redemption, that tell the epilogue of the game's co-op campaign.

Multiplayer-focused developer Massive Entertainment says High Tides features the "final moments" of the co-op campaign's quartet and their adventure on the island. Going by the description of "tougher fights," "bigger competitions," and "explosive moments unlike anything you've seen before," we suspect it won't chronicle a long day of struggling to nap on a rock-solid airport couch, which is how our island adventures usually end.

#farcry For its Japanese release, Far Cry 3 is getting a series of edits that will result in a slightly different experience for the country's gamers. According to Ubisoft (via website 4Gamer), here's what's different in the Japanese language version: More »

#farcry Looks like we're not the only ones hoping that Far Cry 3 gets some dinosaurs sometime soon. More »

A few months before Far Cry 3 was released, I was given a glimpse at the multiplayer and a social network phone application that would let you fiddle with the main game’s weapons. Then the game came out and there was nothing of the sort included. I got paranoid, presuming it to be part of a conspiracy. To what end? I imagined that when the game came out and it didn’t arrive, people wouldn’t trust anything I said about phones ever again. Then one day I’d be beaten, left for dead, and a bystander would run up and ask me if I needed help? I’d tell them to call for an ambulance, but they’d say: “You’re the guy that said I could use my phone to unlock guns in Far Cry 3′s multiplayer, you don’t get to use my phone anymore.” They’d put their phone away and no ambulance would ever come. Ubisoft released the damn app last night. I unlocked my bunker door, sacked my bodyguard, and came out of hiding. To celebrate, here’s the trailer for the app.(more…)

#fineart Henry Fong is a former senior character designer at Ubisoft, who after leaving the publisher a few years back has been working in the motion picture business on projects like Pacific Rim and the upcoming Spider-Man sequel. More »

#modwishlist PC modders have really begun to dig into Far Cry 3. The mind reels at the possibilities. More »

Capybara Games' delightful Might and Magic Clash of Heroes began its life on DS, then was adapted into an HD release for consoles and PC. Now, that HD version has been re-downsized for release on iPhone and Android. Clash of Heroes will bring its match-three-to-fight strategy puzzle combat to iOS on January 24 for $4.99, with an Android version to follow.

If you haven't played it, Clash of Heroes is a puzzle game in which you control an army with match-three puzzle mechanics. Line up three of the same type of fighter vertically, and you launch an attack. Line them up horizontally, and you defend. There's a lot of complexity beyond that, but that's the basic, endlessly addictive idea.

Assassin's Creed 3 is toughing it out with new multiplayer DLC today in the form of the Battle Hardened pack. The DLC, now available on Xbox Live Marketplace for 800 MSP, and free for Season Pass holders, is also making its way to PlayStation Network and Steam, although Ubisoft has yet to specify when.

The pack introduces three new maps to the multiplayer side of Connor's Colonial climber, including Charlestown, Fort St-Mathieu, and Saint Pierre. Three new multiplayer characters are bundled in too, namely the Governor, Highlander, and Coyote Man (presumably one of the less popular bartenders at Coyote Ugly).

#farcry The images you're about to see are the work of Bruno Gauthier Leblanc, an Ubisoft artist who we've previously featured for his contributions on Splinter Cell: Conviction. More »

#assassinscreed Assassin's Creed III is easily one of the most divisive video games of 2012. It was a hugely ambitious slate-cleaner for the long-running Assassin's Creed franchise, and while it did a number of things right, it also got a lot of things wrong. More »

You shouldn't take everything you see in video games at face value - especially when a hooded man, who belongs to a clandestine order of assassins embroiled in a years-long war against another clandestine, sinister secret order, jumps off a building into a small cart of hay.

Today's Xbox Live's Countdown to 2013 deal is full of Trials and tribulations, minus the tribulations. The Xmas Eve offering knocks 400 MSP off both Trials HD and Trials Evolution, seeing bikers viciously flung off price crashes of 400 MSP and 800 MSP respectively.

The games' add-ons are also discounted in today's deal, making each of the Big Thrills and Big Pack DLC for Trials HD as well as Origins of Pain for Evolution available for 200 MSP.Trials HD & Evolution star in today's Xbox Live Countdown to 2013 deal

#farcry Far Cry 3 is a heck of a fun game, and lovely to look at. But those gorgeous sunsets and mountain vistas are marred somewhat by the intrusive screen-clutter that covers the game with waypoints, pop-up reminders, and other unwanted text. More »

#farcry Don't get me wrong, I loved Far Cry 3. It's a magical game. But at the same time, the further I got through the game's story, the more uncomfortable it made me feel. More »

The thing about wheelies is that they're explorers at heart, constantly craving new, exciting places to pop. So we'd be remiss if we didn't inform you of the Riders of Doom DLC pack for Trials Evolution, available for download right now on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Riders of Doom is 400 MS Points ($5) and themed around the Mayan Apocalypse. Within are 40 new tracks to break every bone imaginable in and a new bike to trash repeatedly, plus ten new Skill Games and "hundreds" of new items for the track editor - all new things to spice up that stale relationship with the wheelie in your life.

#yearinreview Bonjour friends! American gaming's Franco-friends Ubisoft had quite the year, releasing or showing off games for what seemed like all of their major franchises, and revealing a new one to boot. Other than the pretty fun Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, the beginning of their 2012 was defined by arcade and mobile titles like the dangerously addictive Trials Evolution, mobile hit Babel Rising 3D, and oft-delayed I Am Alive. From June on, however, Ubisoft was in overdrive. More »

#farcry2 He's not just responsible for one of the coolest games of the year, Dishonored designer Harvey Smith is also a man with impeccable taste. More »

#farcry There's a mission in Far Cry 3 that… well, it's kind of "That Mission." Every time someone new plays the game, I see them on Twitter or wherever, raving about the pot-burning mission. More »

Ubisoft has announced a release date for the upcoming Might & Magic Heroes VI standalone expansion. Shades of Darkness, as it's called, will be available worldwide on February 28, 2013. Set in time one century after the core game's events, Shades of Darkness will feature two storylines, setting two factions - the Dark Elves and the Necromancers of Heresh - against each other for the fate of Ashan.

The expansion will be available independently or as part of a Might & Magic Heroes VI Complete Edition, which includes the core game and the expansion along with all bonus content, two DLC packs, and a full soundtrack. And Ubisoft has also premiered the Might & Magic web portal, featuring lots of information about the franchise's mythology, an interactive timeline about the world's history, and lots of new and info on the various games in the series. You can see some portal layouts and a bit of concept art for the expansion in the gallery below.

#assassinscreed My heart goes out to Kirk for his struggles with the end of Assassin's Creed III, because I must have failed that mission around 30 times before finally nailing it. As frustrating as it was, though, I have to disagree that it's the worst thing about Assassin's Creed III. The worst thing comes shortly afterwards. More »