Engaget Summary (2023-06-12 11AM)

Source: Ubisoft’s ‘Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora’ arrives on December 7th 2023

Summary
Ubisoft’s upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora game is an open-world first-person action-adventure game that follows events from both the Avatar movies. It includes various upgrades to agility, weapons, and other attributes and allows you to ride direhorses and Ikran. It’s set to launch on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, PC, and Luna platforms on December 7th 2023.

Facts

🎮 Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora revolves around the events of both Avatar films, with new environments, flora, fauna, and characters.

🌿 Na’vi skills can be used as a scanner to detect enemies and the surrounding environment.

🐴 Direhorses and personal Ikran can be ridden, fed, and customized in the game.

💥 An open-world first-person action-adventure game, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora includes crafting weaponry from resources and upgrading skills.

🎉 Massive, the studio behind the game, is most recognized for its work on Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 game.

---

Source: Netflix’s ‘Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix’ is an anime love letter to the ’90s

Summary
Netflix is set to release Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, an anime series based on Ubisoft’s Blood Dragon expansion for Far Cry 3. Adi Shankar, series creator, said the show would combine “a violent, dystopian fiction” alongside “spoof, satire, dark comedy, love story” and boldly proclaimed it to be “the most philosophically conscious show you’ve watched in a long time.”

Fact

🎬 The upcoming Netflix anime, Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, is based on the 2013 Blood Dragon expansion for Far Cry 3.

💻 The series uses Ubisoft’s vast library of characters and remixed them into one delirious anime series that is a love letter to the 90s.

🌐 Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix was created by Adi Shankar, who describes the show as a violent, dystopian fiction, spoof, satire, dark comedy, love story, and “the most philosophically conscious show you’ve watched in a long time.”

📺 The show, handled by Bobbypills Studio, is set to be released worldwide on Netflix this fall.

---

Source: ‘Skull and Bones’ is still alive, will apparently have a closed beta in August

Summary
Ubisoft has announced that its game Skull and Bones is still in development and will have a closed beta between August 25th-28th. The action-adventure game, which allows you to pilot a pirate ship, has been in the works since E3 2017 and has been delayed multiple times. The current release date is set for the end of March 2024.

Fact

⚔️ Skull and Bones is an action-adventure game that lets you control a pirate ship and team up with friends in an open world to become a legendary pirate.

💻 The closed beta for Skull and Bones will be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

🎮 The game was first announced in 2017 and has had multiple delays. Its release date is set for March 2024.

---

Source: Ubisoft confirms holiday release for ‘Assassin’s Creed: Nexus VR’

Summary
Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR will launch exclusively on Meta Quest Pro, Meta Quest 2, and Meta Quest 3 this holiday season. Ubisoft has also released a trailer that shows first-person virtual gameplay of parkour movements, combat and interaction with the memories of former series protagonists for accessing levels.

Fact

🕶️ The game releases exclusively on the Meta Quest platform and supports Meta Quest Pro, Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest 3.

🧑‍🦱 Players play in first-person as an assassin and experience parkour-style movement, stealth combat and hand-to-hand combat.

🎮 The game reunites players with former series protagonists like Ezio, to access levels through their memories.

🤢 Ubisoft has included “best-in-class comfort features” to help VR nausea and vertigo while executing parkour moves.

💰 The game’s price is yet to be announced, but it is expected to be a top-tier Quest title, which usually caps at $40.

---