Ubisoft ditches controversial always-on DRM for PC games
"We have listened to feedback."
Ubisoft has discarded its much-derided always-on DRM for PC games, the company has announced.
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VideoAnno 2070 launch trailer sets sail
Futuristic city sim on PC today.
VideoAnno 2070 trailer logs online features
Eight-player competitive and co-op play.
VideoAnno 2070 military trailer rolls out
Futuristic sim for 17th November.
VideoAnno 2070 trailer reveals factions
Ubisoft shows more cityscape splendor.
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Anno 2070 Deep Ocean expansion announced
Ubisoft RTS adds new class, tsunamis, 150 new quests.
Anno 2070, last year's entry in Ubisoft's long-running RTS series, gets a major expansion this Autumn, the publisher has announced.
Titled Deep Ocean, it adds a new civilisation level, with the Tech faction expanded by the Genius class.
The new class offers access to the new Tech Monument, corresponding production chains and consumption goods.
Ubisoft wants to offer PC gamers so much value the need for DRM "goes away"
"Will the person who really wants that broad experience pirate? We hope not."
Ubisoft wants to offer PC gamers so much value with its franchises that the need for its controversial DRM "goes away".
Anno 2070's weirdo DRM is working as intended
Three activations, doesn't like you changing graphics card.
Ubisoft has said that seemingly overzealous DRM in its PC strategy title Anno 2070 is working as intended and claimed most players won't ever fall foul of it.
VideoAnno 2070 launch trailer sets sail
Futuristic city sim on PC today.
VideoAnno 2070 trailer logs online features
Eight-player competitive and co-op play.
VideoAnno 2070 military trailer rolls out
Futuristic sim for 17th November.
VideoAnno 2070 trailer reveals factions
Ubisoft shows more cityscape splendor.
VideoAnno 2070 walkthrough trailer
Will you be eco-friendly or industrial?
VideoAnno 2070 gets a futuristic teaser
Ubisoft RTS due this year.
Ubisoft RTS due this year.
RTS series to colonise PCs this winter.
Ubisoft's long running Anno RTS franchise returns to PC this winter, with the action moving out of the history books and into the future.
Anno 2070, developed by series mainstay Related Designs with help from Blue Byte, sees you mastering new technologies to colonise a world ravaged by global warming.
There will be two factions to choose from: the industry-focussed Tycoons (boo!) or eco-friendly tree-huggers known as the Ecos (yay!).