Ubi denies 'leaked' schedule News

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News by Tom Bramwell

13 March, 2006

The American bit of Ubisoft has reportedly denied the contents of a release schedule that lists a bunch of PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Revolution games, quite a few of which haven't been announced yet.

The schedule originally appeared on GamePro.com last week, listing 12 PlayStation 3 games, many of which were also pegged as due on Revolution, Xbox 360, handhelds and, in some cases, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

Several of the alleged PS3 games were set for release in November, according to the document - a date that would fit in with some industry commentators' predictions of when we can expect an American PS3 release.

However GamePro.com subsequently removed the list after Ubisoft got in touch and "categorically denied" its contents. We couldn't get anything that authoritative out of Ubisoft UK sadly - just the usual stuff about not being able to comment on rumours.

So obviously we don't feel too bad about reprinting the thing in full. It's probably all bollocks, but then sometimes people just say that to cover their arses, don't they?

The supposedly discredited release schedule:

July 2006: Enchant Arms (Xbox 360)
November 2006: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 5 (PS3, Xbox 360, Rev, PSP)
November 2006: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (PS3)
November 2006: Rayman 4 (PS3, Xbox 360, Rev, PS2, Handheld)
November 2006: Blazing Angel 1.5 (PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox)
February 2007: Brothers in Arms 3 (Xbox 360, Rev, PS2, NDS)
February 2007: Brothers in Arms 2: Earned in Blood (PSP)
March 2007: Tom Clancy's Firehawk (PS3, Xbox 360)
March 2007: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 4 (PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2)
March 2007: Naruto (Xbox 360)
March 2007: Assassin (PS3, Xbox 360, Rev, PSP)
Spring 2007: Game 5 (PS3, Xbox 360)
Spring 2007: Ninja Turtles (PS3, Rev, Xbox 360, Handhelds, current gen consoles)
TBA: Lumines 2 (PS2, PSP)
TBA: Alive (PS3, Xbox 360)
TBA: Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (PS3, Xbox 360)
TBA: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter Mission Pack (PS3, Xbox 360, PSP)

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Singularity

13/03/06 @ 14:52

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Lumines 2, eh? Would probably a pointless update of skins, but I wouldn't be able to resist.

OnlyMe

13/03/06 @ 14:53

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Wonder if Assassin has anything to do with the amiga games from Team 17.

DaM

13/03/06 @ 14:53

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Excellent, Game 4 is getting a well deserved sequel! Surely it would be well suited to the Rev though?

trav

13/03/06 @ 14:56

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soooo....BiA2 for the PSP will come out at the same time as BiA3 on everything else. Call me crazy, but wouldn't it be easier/better to have BiA3 on the PSP at the same time?

SeesThroughAll

13/03/06 @ 15:04

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@ Singularity:

LOL, maybe the timeline would alternate sweep direction (i.e., sweep right then left, sweep up and down, etc.) - such a subtle change could provide additional challenge. If they did something like that, I'd be sold.

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Freek

13/03/06 @ 15:15

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categorically denied, translation: it's true but Sony would sue us silly if we said otherwsie since it spills the beans on the PS3 launch window.

Zuiyo

13/03/06 @ 15:17

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New videogames! Weeeeeeeee! That's great!

Hunam85

13/03/06 @ 15:23

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Wow, not a mention of PC games in the slightest, thanks UBI!

/sarcasm

Dizzy

13/03/06 @ 15:23

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"12 PlayStation 3 games, many of which were also pegged as due on Revolution, Xbox 360"

Errr... from that list I would say... all 360 games many of them also on PS3 and a few on Rev.

Also looks like Ubi is not really going to have a lot of exclusives?

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reality_cheque

13/03/06 @ 15:25

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I like the way EG reprints the info that's been denied - just FYI, naturally :D

Kiigan

13/03/06 @ 15:25

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All I care about is Splinter Cell. And more GRAW, hopefully with a few bug-fixes.

Rambaldi

13/03/06 @ 15:34

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So no PS3 exclusives then?

PinkSpider

13/03/06 @ 15:42

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Lumines 2.... PS2... fuck buying a PSP then. For now anyways (was actually going to go get one but I suppose I should just get a new PS2 now my old one is borked)

alimokrane

13/03/06 @ 15:55

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you can tell just by looking at the list that' it's not true ...

Crube

13/03/06 @ 16:46

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and not a single game that i could claim to be bothered about....

smoison

13/03/06 @ 17:06

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WTF?
Lumines 2, you peeple do realise you can play LOADS of these puzzle games ONLINE FOR FREE.

And NONE of them are as good as Tetris.

Furbs

13/03/06 @ 17:10

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smoison - yeah the PS2 is great on the internet, and I love being able to surf the web on my PSP when I'm on the train/plane/holiday/nowhere near a wifi spot.

Sorb

13/03/06 @ 17:15

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Did anyone else notice that the maximum Gamerscore for GRAW is 925 right now instead of 1000? Henche the Mission Pack!! I hope you all bought a hard drive :)

azmol01

13/03/06 @ 17:56

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What the hell is Game 5?

Tomo

13/03/06 @ 19:15

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Rayman 4 - sarcastic "joy!"

Lumines 2 - honest "joy!!!"

Interesting seeing how multi-platform the Rev games are on that list. Didn't really know what to expect on that front. If it's true of course.

Donny

13/03/06 @ 21:14

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Im suprised to see that Ghost Recon 4 will be made for Xbox and PS2. You would think that by then they would pretty much be obsolete. It also just means they spend less time on the cool versions for next-gen consoles.

Xerx3s

13/03/06 @ 21:25

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Naruto on the xb2? 0_o

Whats this then? Did MS actually manage to 'steal' a 'sony' game?

And almost every ms or sony game is also released on the competing platform...

Blerk

14/03/06 @ 09:39

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Please tell me why everyone is so surprised that Ubi aren't doing platform exclusives?

SimonM7

14/03/06 @ 11:04

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Next gen Rayman 4 :O

Hopefully Michel is back on it.

ralphwolfenstein

14/03/06 @ 11:15

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heh - knowing what a long-term publisher release schedule typically looks like, that list looks 100% on the money. The denial is purely a legal requirement as someone's already pointed out

UGhost

14/03/06 @ 11:30

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Game 5 is the codename for Free Radical's new FPS, which was signed by Ubi. I agree with the previous poster - this looks very much like the average long-term publisher schedule.

Tommo

14/03/06 @ 14:52

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No Splinter Cell at all on the list?

Must mean it's coming out before July then?

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