Ubisoft dates key titles

By Robert Purchese Published 20 June, 2007

Haze PC, 360 disappears.

Update: A spokesperson for Ubisoft has told Eurogamer this morning that yesterday's release schedule was incorrect. Haze is still to be confirmed for PC and Xbox 360, apparently, so the 30th November date now slips into the realms of TBA. The exclusive PS3 date remains the same.

Ubisoft has gone into a frenzy of organisation and stamped release dates on all of its key upcoming titles.

According to its latest release schedule, November will be one of the biggest months ever for the publisher. Due out then are Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway, Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Haze and, er, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2.

We'll have to wait and see whether these can compete against the pulling power of titles like Halo 3 in late September and Grand Theft Auto IV in October.

September for Ubisoft heralds the release of Dark Messiah: Elements on Xbox 360, Settlers VI on PC, and Brothers in Arms: Double Time for Wii. The biggest launch in October is the new Naruto role-playing adventure for Xbox 360.

However, there's no sign of the much talked about Tom Clancy's EndWar on the schedule.

Specific new dates for the biggest titles can be found below:

September:

  • Dark Messiah: Elements - 7th September (Xbox 360)
  • Settlers VI - 7th September (PC)
  • Brothers In Arms: Double Time - 21st September (Wii)

October:

  • Naruto: Rise of a Ninja - 19th October (Xbox 360)

November:

  • Assassin's Creed - 9th November (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
  • Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway - 16th November (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
  • Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 - 16th November (Wii, DS)
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction - 16th November (PC, Xbox 360)
  • Haze - 23rd November (PS3)

Clap your eyes on our release date schedule for the entire picture.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

You may also like...

Comments (75) Latest comment 5 years ago

Comments threads automatically close after 30 days, but please feel free to continue chatting on the forum!

  • JediMasterMalik #1 5 years ago

    I thought Splinter Cell was meant to be exclusive... console exclusive I guess. Not complaining mind.

  • Xerx3s #2 5 years ago

    Wtf is up with the uberlarge fonts every time? This is the only site it is happening and it's seriously annoying.

  • Inquisitor #3 5 years ago

    Yea, just got that now.

    The site is super slow today aswell.

  • Les #4 5 years ago

    "Wtf is up with the uberlarge fonts every time? This is the only site it is happening and it's seriously annoying."

    Probably non-standard HTML as it only happens (to me at least) in Firefox.

  • Donny #5 5 years ago

    Glad to see they(BiA:HH, Ass Creed, Splinter Cell, HAZE) are all coming to PC, look like I won't have to "jump in" quite yet.

  • Peew971 #6 5 years ago

    So Haze is multiplatform from day one? I thought PS3 had a timed exclusive.

  • Wayne #7 5 years ago

    Hopefully I can get that £1300 saved by November for that 40" 1080p TV and X Box 360, and then Assasin's Creed can be my first game.

  • Xerx3s #8 5 years ago

    I think that's a bit of an error from EG. They probably meant: it will be released on all platforms, just not on this date.

  • Machetazo #9 5 years ago

    "The site is super slow today aswell. "

    Yeah, it's bugging up quite a lot, today. :( Might be a Firefox thing, but then again, when I first tried IE (which I swapped to) EG didn't load at all. Now I've swapped, it seems more manageable, happily.
    Edited by 1 at 19/06/07 @ 14:37

  • absolutezero #10 5 years ago

    Woo woo I was just thinking about Dark Messiah the other day, I think the stance based combat will work alot better with a controller rather than a keyboard.

    Plus thanks to Ubi games having no region locking Ill be getting them all nice and cheap.

    oooo Dark Messiah is out the day after my birthday and all :p
    Edited by 1 at 19/06/07 @ 14:40

  • mcmonkeyplc #11 5 years ago

    You'd be pretty damn stupid to release anything in September on the 360.

  • Scimarad #12 5 years ago

    Might have to have a go at Dark Messiah on the 360. I hope we get a demo...

  • morriss #13 5 years ago

    Bloody hell! Assassin's Creed, SC5 and Haze within weeks of each other.

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #14 5 years ago

    Apologies. Misread Haze's *exclusive* PS3 date. It's now listed correctly as one week earlier than PC, Xbox 360.

  • absolutezero #15 5 years ago

    I'd be pretty pissed if no one else released anything in September, I don't want to play fucking Halo. Looks like im fucked eh.

  • souljacker2000 #16 5 years ago

    Im up for Dark Messiah wana give that a bash..

    think ill buy most 360 ones part from Naruto... fuck me cant handle too much wierdness

  • JayeM #17 5 years ago

    Assassin's Creed
    Haze
    Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction

    I'll probably be buying those three.

  • Inquisitor #18 5 years ago

    I also think its a little strange how cramped ubis release scehdule is.

    I mean fucking hell, they're their own worst enemy in some ways, they'll certainly be competing against themselves pretty heavily this year :D

  • Xerx3s #19 5 years ago

    Apologies. Misread Haze's *exclusive* PS3 date. It's now listed correctly as one week earlier than PC, Xbox 360.

    o_o

    ...

    eh?

    ...

    One week counts as an exclusive deal now? ... ?!

    This is getting silly now, stop calling it exclusive if it isn't that exclusive. Exclusive = Not appearing on another console for a very long time. Timed exclusive = at least 3 to 6 months difference. 1 Week? An extra week to catch up with that other game.

  • Xerx3s #20 5 years ago

    I'd be pretty pissed if no one else released anything in September, I don't want to play fucking Halo. Looks like im fucked eh.

    Bollocks, there are tons of games in the pipeline from July onwards on all platforms.

  • Walshicus #21 5 years ago

    Hehe, I always liked Haze, which was why I was annoyed to hear it might be delayed by months...

    But a week? A single week? *snigger*

  • SeesThroughAll #22 5 years ago

    This is getting silly now, stop calling it exclusive if it isn't that exclusive. Exclusive = Not appearing on another console for a very long time. Timed exclusive = at least 3 to 6 months difference. 1 Week? An extra week to catch up with that other game.

    Meh. Remember Darkness? It's going to end up appearing for the 360 three weeks earlier in Europe.
    Edited by 1 at 19/06/07 @ 15:09

  • Darkedge #23 5 years ago

    "So Haze is multiplatform from day one? I thought PS3 had a timed exclusive."

    no it a timed exclusive, one whole week - wow it really pays to have your wallet emptied by Sony as they assrape you doesn't it?

  • DrunKao #24 5 years ago

    Holy sh*t. I thought Haze for 360 was being delayed till '08. Now I won't have to buy a Ps3 afterall \o/ hurray!!!!

    *lol at the thought of buying a PS3 for Haze*

  • moonowl17 #25 5 years ago

    BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

    Sorry, it had to be said!

  • Tonka #26 5 years ago

    Did dinosaurs have long tails?

  • DrunKao #27 5 years ago

    Why can't people seem to understand the significants of a game being console exclusive? "Well it's still available on the PC so it's not really a 360 exlusive."

    I don't think the majority of gamers share that sentiment. The significants is that most people will buy the 360 version, because they're not hardcore PC gamers. PC gaming is way too expensive, and even the people willing to upgrade their computers to support graphically rich PC titles will pirate them anyway.

    Doom III was one of the biggest event in PC gaming, yet no one hardly purchased it, while most people still seemed to be able to play it...

  • JediMasterMalik #28 5 years ago

    @DrunKao - PC gaming is about the same when you consider how much cheaper the games are. Just requires a bit of faffing is all.

  • Xerx3s #29 5 years ago

    Meh. Remember Darkness? It's going to end up appearing for the 360 three weeks earlier in Europe.

    Is it? Don't recall anything of that. I most certainly don't recall it being touted as an (temp) exclusive. 3 weeks != timed exclusive. Timings like these are more likely to be down to shipment/qa times than anything else.

    This most definitely eases the pain of waiting though.

    2 4p coop games in less than two months! Wtf?! This is going to be such a great autumn.

  • Tzetrik #30 5 years ago

    WHAT ABOUT LOST!!!

  • absolutezero #31 5 years ago

    The PS3 Drakness is delayed I think because of the full length movies in it, something to do with them.

    Its down as 20/07 on Shopto

  • spidermanalf #32 5 years ago

    Hopefully they will be region free!

    Play-asia, here I come!

  • Darren #33 5 years ago

    I saw the trailer for Conviction on the 360 and noticed that it still had dreadful v-sync tearing, like all the previous games, so that's crossed off my must-have list. I really think that Ubisoft's developers should be releasing more polished-looking 360 games by now as every one of their games on the 360 is rife with tearing... I'm not hopeful of Assassin's Creed either and that's really the only Ubisoft game I'm interested in bar Haze on the PS3.

  • SeesThroughAll #34 5 years ago

    @ Xerx3s:

    I meant this: the PS3 version of Darkness got delayed for a month in Europe only, when it was supposed to be released on all platforms simultaneously (SCEE fuckup no doubt). By the same logic, a game that was supposed to be a "timed exclusive" for the PS3 (for a week, lol), is probably actually coming out later for the PS3 than for the other platforms.

    It's ridiculous either way we look at it.

    oneweektimedexclusivelol
    Edited by 1 at 19/06/07 @ 16:09

  • mcmonkeyplc #35 5 years ago

    Meh, Haze is no Halo.

  • afghan_jones #36 5 years ago

    Its the same with every company at the minute. the 360 has been starved of releases for ages and will continue to be so until september, then it just gets mental. Looking ahead, theres around 20 games coming out on 360 which i would be prepared to pay full whack for.

    Theres frankly no way the missus would let me get them all at once. She'd kill me. Ive not bought a game since crackdown at the end of February. Why cant they spread them out a wee bit? A lot of cool titles will be lost in the masses this autumn but would be very nicely about now.
    Edited by 1 at 19/06/07 @ 16:55

  • absolutezero #37 5 years ago

    Theres a whole load of good looking games coming out next Friday, theres been a fair few releases this month aswell, Forza, Dirt and Senk no Ronde come to mind.

    July is barren but then Bioshock is in August and then things take off in September.

  • Xerx3s #38 5 years ago

    Meh, Haze is no Halo.

    Maybe so but it has 4p coop and that is enough. Coop can turn even the dullest game into great fun. I have no doubt that haze will be a solid 7.0 or 8.0 and with the bonus of the coop it will be loads of fun. I might postpone the purchase till januari or feb mind. Depends on how good the other stuff is.

    the 360 has been starved of releases for ages and will continue to be so until september, then it just gets mental.

    lol. Some of the best games of the year have just been released and will be released in the summer but it's absolutely starving. Yep. In the meantime the daily EG sessions continue.

  • afghan_jones #39 5 years ago

    Yeah, Forza and Dirt just came out but apart from that theres been bugger all worth having for months now and nothing coming up until end of august/september.

    It's ridiculous. autumn is going to be 2 decent games a week worth buying. The last few months have been 2 decent games worth buying since Christmas. Thats been it. It vexes me.

    Also, Xerx3s, which are the best games of the year that have just or are about to be, released? I must have missed them cause it looks to me like most of the best games are cloggin up September-November time...
    Edited by 1 at 19/06/07 @ 17:30

  • barnard666 #40 5 years ago

    1 week really has to be a mistake! I actually was looking forward to buying something on my PS3, sadly one week means that the achievement points will win out on which version I buy!

  • Les #41 5 years ago

    "1 week really has to be a mistake!"

    If it's not, it'll mean that the PS3 version is just a crappy, unpolished port.

  • Xerx3s #42 5 years ago

    Shadowrun Is definite top 5 material and apart from the usual suspects we also have Overlord. And that's just the 360.

    I count at least 7 good titles for this month alone. http://www.euro gamer.net/releases.php

  • EffEmmGee #43 5 years ago

    Darren, you do realise that there are still a further FIVE months to go for them to sort out the dreadful V-Sync tearing issues seen in the WORK IN PROGRESS trailer, to which you seem to be allergic?

  • dredd97 #44 5 years ago

    'If it's not, it'll mean that the PS3 version is just a crappy, unpolished port.'

    it's been designed for ps3 in mind, the 360 is the port of the ps3 version ...

  • alpha-0ne #45 5 years ago

    "it's been designed for ps3 in mind, the 360 is the port of the ps3 version ... "

    ;-)

    Yeh right 360 has been the lead platform like every other ubisoft game

  • Freek #46 5 years ago

    I hereby crown Ubisoft the King of bullshit release date anoucements.
    Valve had it for a year, but you guys beat them out this time fare and squar, by far the most nonsense spouted in a row.

  • DrunKao #47 5 years ago

    Didn't one of the leads say that the PS3 is the lead platform for Haze? I don't think it will mean much when we compare both versions though.

  • DrunKao #48 5 years ago

    lol @ biber_bob

  • Royal Fool #49 5 years ago

    Releasing Haze, Splinter Cell and Assassin's Creed with only a week between each is rather... strange. I guess they're banking on squeezing out the best numbers possible for the quarterly reports.

  • mouse Verified Graphic designer, Eurogamer Network #50 5 years ago

    What do you mean "er, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2"? The first one was great!

  • alpha-0ne #51 5 years ago

    @biker_bob "Is it your insecureness or the tension that your console just might not be able to play three new games in a month due to overheating and resulting in the well-known xbox suicide? "

    Im sure we will make do with the three console exclusive 360 titles coming from ubisoft around that period, whatever you say its embarrasing to mention a game as excluive and then it tuens out to be a week 8-)

  • GamesConnoisseur #52 5 years ago

    biker_bob are you sure you not likewise displaying any of the symptoms of the well known affliction that can strike down the best people, the so called disease of the fanboism?!

    Well from reading the interview, articles in well respected Edge magazine and so on was led to believe that Haze would be on PS3 for a good period of time, chin hit the floor as to mere 168 hours separation between the consoles!

    Puzzled as to the reasons for this, as thought it was a clever marketing of not appearing too close to Halo 3 on X360 and allowing PS3 as the lead platform to swallow more in the limelight. As someone mention earlier, might as well go for X360 due to the achievement points and there should be little difference anyway.

    Though adding a note of caution, v-sync and tearings (on ubi titles for x360) would tempt me away to PS3 but otherwise, memory set up limitation there may give rise to worse frame rate issues over X360! Which one to go for...

  • GamesConnoisseur #53 5 years ago

    forgive me for aggravating you with my choice of words of 'memory limitation', yes it is designed differently but it does give rise to different set of challenges. A programmer/developer had previously said somewhere (not being in industry myself) that the way it is designed does give an issue if not properly factored in.

    Some examples were given elsewhere in EG forum and articles that this accounts for being 'allegedly' less able to take in added content such as Shivering Island DLC as memory already maxed out for running main Oblivion game (256 mb normal ram and 256 graphic ram) and also obviously not doing as smoothly as a year old rival console in some of the main multi-platform games such as Call of Duty 3 and Tony Hawk's Project 8.

    Lack of rumble on six-axis also not helping, what the hold up there? Immersion deal sorted and dusted so what are they waiting for?

    I do admire PS3 and X360 for their own respective merits and would want to have best game on either system. I will wait and see as to how certain games would best perform.

  • Rusty_M #54 5 years ago

    oh my poor poor wallet (and poor girlfriend with the time it will take to play this year's games)

  • Steroyd #55 5 years ago

    I iz cunfosed. o_O

  • Peew971 #56 5 years ago

    Maybe Ubisoft reacted to all the bashing regarding the one week exclusivity :)

  • JayeM #57 5 years ago

    "Haze is still to be confirmed for PC and Xbox 360"

    They can't seem to make up their mind. :S

  • SeesThroughAll #58 5 years ago

    It doesn't really matter that much to me in the end.
    The chosen release date is making sure Assassin Creed hurts Haze sales, even on the PS3.
    I know which one looks more interesting to me.

  • Dizzy #59 5 years ago

    I guess Sony called.. they want their Haze back ;)

  • Darren #60 5 years ago

    @EffEmmGee - And what's the betting that it won't be fixed for it's release. You name me one other Ubisoft game which had tearing in the early trailers than was fixed for the final release? What... you can't think of one? I rest my case! LOL

  • kissthestick #61 5 years ago

    damn this is annoying, i really want haze for my future 360, but i need to know if its this year or next :(

  • SeesThroughAll #62 5 years ago

    biker_bob, you better change your ways, lest face the same fate as TheColeTrain.

  • Steroyd #63 5 years ago

    Lack of rumble on six-axis also not helping, what the hold up there? Immersion deal sorted and dusted so what are they waiting for?

    <a href=http://news.com.com/8301-1078 4_3-9730964-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&g t;Maybe, just maybe....</a>

    Can't believe people are still bitching about the lack of rumble.

  • zuljin #64 5 years ago

    I know this sounds really paranoid and fanboyish, but I'm finding this whole delay of games for the PS3 by a month very strange. I don't think I'm wrong in saying this, but a single month this close to release is not an indication of last minute bugs... 1 month before release is usually when you go into production, so usually you'd know at least ahead of that whether you would make your deadlines.

    Couple that with both The Godfather and Spiderman 3 screwing up their BBFC certificate, what is going on?

  • EffEmmGee #65 5 years ago

    @Darren. Funny thing is I cant remember experiencing any tearing in any of the games you mention (Except R6 Vegas, but even then that was once at the beginning...ive failed to replicate it since)

    I dont currently have a HDTV but im happy with what Ive got (which is very crisp btw).

  • SwedBear #66 5 years ago

    Tearing is something that people are reacting different to. Some notice it much more than others. So while I notice some tearing but not enough to actually think about it unless someone points it out, I have friends that can't play a game even on PC without V-Sync turned on as they even get a head-ache from teearing.

    If I remember correctly the tearing appears when the framerate is not a multiple of the refreshrate of the display device. So on a 60 Hz screen, a game running at a constant 30 fps or 60 fps should not tear while if it dips to 45 fps or something like that you risk of getting tearing. At least that is what I seem to remember from when benching video cards and turning off V-Sync. Some games get lots of tearing.

    Ubisoft seem to have to decided that tearing is acceptable as they can get more detail etc. in even if it lower the fps.

  • davisorle #67 5 years ago

    @ biker_bob

    DId you just make all this up or is it just me? YOu just had to talk bullshit man? Weird thing you were arguing with only 2 comments that had nothing to do with your post o.O Eventhough I don't know how come DrunKao laughed with you...

    Ubisoft's good tittles are all coming out for the 360 with Naruto and Splinter Cell beeing 360 exclusives. It's not that the 360 wont be able to play. It's that every single 360 exclusive looks the least 10x better than your console's best game ATM! DEAL WITH IT!

  • Les #68 5 years ago

    "YOu just had to talk bullshit man?"

    You mean like you do?

  • Bill_Gates_Bitch #69 5 years ago

    A week lol. That's all Sony can afford these days.

  • Les #70 5 years ago

    Someone obviously didn't see the "Haze PC, 360 disappears." on top of this page...

  • Calgon #71 5 years ago

    Bikerbob you may own a more than one console but you are obviously a Sony fanboy it has to be said.

    And for crying out loud: The PS3 has NO memory limitation, it can access the 256 Mb of Video RAM as well. The main memory even runs at 3.2Ghz, as most people tend to forget. Not even today's PC's have a frontbus that fast. Get your facts straight first. The memory is just DESIGNED differently.

    This is just missleading... first off yes there is a limitation and yes it does give 360 a slight advantage when all is said and done(even ignoring the fact that the os in the PS3 takes up around 3 times more space than than 360s does 96mb compared to 32mb IIRC) there are work arounds but its never going to be AS OPTIMAL(balanced read/write access which is important for the types of things sony have been talking about, might limit the amount of and specific types of effects Cell can help out RSX with on the graphics side might also limit the AI to some extent) since the read speed from Cell to Video RAM is much slower(but who's to say PS3 devs will need more than 256mb for Cell anyway? not huge limitation but if they are "untapping them potentials" it is a handcap compared the 360 setup).

    Your point about the memory clock speed(which is what you meant to say) is correct(well if thats not what you meant then no it wasnt correct)... it is clocked at 3.2ghz(effective) BUT you forgot about BUS WIDTH(the overall bandwidth measured in GB/sec is what matters, thats the end result and bus width is used in that calculation) it needs to be because this memory(XDR) is designed for a lower pincount(which will make it easier once they start shrinking things down to 65nm... smaller and more cost effective) which also means smaller bus width of 64bits. On PS3 and 360 the GDDR3 has an effective clock of 1.4GHz(700MHz x 2... although PS3 may be 600MHz x 2 if it did receive the clock decrease) and a bus width of 128bits so the differences arent that great in terms of bandwidth... XDR = 25.6GB/s GDDR3 = 22.4GB/s(coupled with the fact that GDDR3 is apparently lower latency than XDR which anyone should know is important for CPUs but having the memory controller on the CPU should help with latency issues too). FlexIO is PS3s FSB and yes its very high bandwidth(6.4GHz clock or 60GB/s bandwidth but thats kind of missleading since the XDR has 25.6GB/s, in the grand scheem of things its apples to oranges, plus this is one advantage consoles can always have due to their nature) but remember the memory controller is integrated onto Cell on PS3 and that these SPEs only have a small amount of cache to share so its necessary with the design of Cell(need fast access to memory in order to keep the SPE pipeline filled if they want any decent performance out of it), in contrast 360 has a larger cache(I think they should have added more, 3mb would be 1mb per core or 6mb would be 1mb per hardware thread but too expensive... Ive yet to hear any complaints from devs about 1mb not being enough yet so who knows) for the CPU and the memory controller is on the GPU meaning there is no seperate Northbridge(to the GPU) and lets not forget the that the 10mb of eDRAM can save alot of bandwidth with its very high internal bandwidth(with logic embedded for some of the most badwidth taxing tasks).
    Edited by 1 at 20/06/07 @ 17:04

  • Les #72 5 years ago

    "Bikerbob you may own a more than one console but you are obviously a Sony fanboy it has to be said."

    Calgon you may not own a 360 but you're obviously a MS fanboy it has to be said. You've posted that technical rubbish in I don't now how many threads here. Yeah, you're really smart for typing all the tech terminology and presumably also understanding what it means but what it all boils down to is PS3 and 360 have different memory architectures, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.

  • Calgon #73 5 years ago

    Well I may have a favourite but that doesnt mean I automatically write the others off and Im hardly trolling the PS3 sections daily with comments like "the PS3 is crap, buy a 360" am I?(its quite amusing really :D theres no defending that though)

    Les thats true also yes both have their strengths and weaknesses concerning the memory setup(and most other areas too) but from a developer prospective most prefer the full UMA approach of 360, PS3 devs will most likely work within 256mb for Cells tasks(thats nothing to sniff at but like I say still might become a handicap once they really start pushing these machines to their limits). He was saying they are different which was obvious we know the differences is the point, one is slightly better than the other to some devs but that doesnt mean either are disasters at all.

  • Calgon #74 5 years ago

    biker_bob no innaccuracies, no wiki quotes, all figures and information were correct taken from multiple credible sources with my own analysis. Please I dare you to pick out any incorrect data, I havent made any figures up or used any skewed figures at all(hollow statement by someone who doesnt like what they hear). It was actually quite a balanced post, never made the PS3 look that bad, just outlined the differences and your own lack of insight.
    Edited by 3 at 20/06/07 @ 17:44

  • Pedrolot #75 5 years ago

    @ Calgon

    Haze is STILL tbc for xbox 360, have you not heard?

    btw i own a 360 ;)