An Ubisoft investor has written an open letter to the company to express their “deep dissatisfaction” with its performance and strategic direction, urging the board to consider taking the company private.
The letter, from Juraj Krupa of Slovakian hedge fund AJ Investments and Partners, follows a second fall in Ubisoft stock in under two weeks: it dropped by 10 percent two days after the release of Star Wars Outlaws and, this week, has fallen by a further 7.1 percent.
Krupa, a minority stakeholder in the company, provides a detailed valuation of Ubisoft, as well as concerns about its future and a proposal for change (thanks GamesIndustry.biz).

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Following Ubisoft’s decision to shut down The Crew’s servers earlier this year – a move made even more controversial when it began revoking players’ licensing to the game – the publisher has announced plans to prevent other entries in the open-world racing series from suffering a similar fate by retroactively introducing offline modes.

Ubisoft began delisting The Crew from digital storefronts last December, announcing it would be permanently shutting the game’s servers down on 31st March this year. Unfortunately, its always-online nature meant players didn’t just loose access to The Crew’s multiplayer elements when the day came – all its single-player content became unavailable too.

The controversy surrounding Ubisoft’s decision led to revitalised discourse …

High-profile streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm has returned to YouTube – two months after admitting he exchanged “messages with an individual minor” that “leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate” – accusing critics of a “planned and coordinated attack”, and asking, “Did any of you consider [they] may have been over the legal age of consent?”.

Beahm admitted to conduct that “leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate” with a minor back in June, after Twitch’s former account director of strategic partnerships, Cody Conners, claimed an unnamed person had been banned from the streaming platform “because [he] got caught sexting a minor”. Those allegations were later directly linked to Beahm by The Verge when the publication spoke with t…

Star Wars Outlaws director Julian Gerighty has confirmed a patch is coming “maybe in 10 days” to address the game’s “unfair” and “incredibly punishing” insta-fail stealth sequences.
In an interview with GamesRadar+, Gerighty admitted that whilst the team had intentionally designed the sequence to build “tension”, it “just [didn’t] want it to feel unfair. And today, I think it feels unfair”.
“This is more of something that crept in in the last week or so and that we’re correcting already for a patch that’s coming out maybe in 10 days,” he added.

Star Wars Outlaws Makes You Feel Like A SCUMBAG – And I Love It.

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Sony has quietly increased the price of a DualSense controller for its PlayStation 5 console.
As spotted by social media account Wario64, the price of various DualSense colour models has increased by $5 in multiple US retailers, but more importantly on Sony’s official store PlayStation Direct.
The basic white DualSense controller has increased from $69.99 to $74.99. Over on the UK PlayStation Direct site, the same controller costs £64.99 – up from £59.99 previously.

Newscast PlayStation’s terrible, brilliant and leaky week

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Apple has unveiled the iPhone 16, claiming it’ll be possible to play AAA games on all devices in the line-up – and not just on the pricier Pro models, as was the case last year.

Apple started bigging up the iPhone’s AAA gaming credentials with 2023’s iPhone 15 range, announcing the likes of Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Resident Evil 4 Remake would all be playable exclusively on the ray tracing enabled iPhone 15 Pro.

12 months on and the iPhone 16 is here, offering what Apple claims to be a 30 percent CPU and 40 percent GPU boost over last year’s model, courtesy of the new A18 chipset – designed to handle the company’s computationally demanding on-device AI features, due later this year. And that extra oomph (which includes hardware-accelerated ray tracing on t…

Former Speaker of the House John Bercow voices a character in the forthcoming Fallout: London mod.

Bercow was Speaker of the House in the UK Parliament, known for yelling “Order!” at rowdy MPs during his tenure. More recently, you may have spotted him in second season of The Traitors US.

Next he’ll make an appearance in Fallout: London as, fittingly, a robot Speaker of the House. His inclusion means he will join the likes of Neil Newbon (Astarion in Baldur’s Gate 3), Anna Demetriou (Sophia in A Plague Tale: Requiem), and two Doctor Who actors: Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker.

Fallout London – Official Release Announcement

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Modders have been hard at work since the release of Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree, releasing plenty of mods to make it a little easier to complete.

That’s certainly true of this mod from FlippantTunic22 over on Nexus Mods, which replaces certain Spirit Ash summons with bosses from the DLC.

So far 11 bosses have been included. I won’t list them all for spoiler reasons, but it does include the Divine Beast Dancing Lion and Messmer the Impaler you will have seen in the DLC’s trailer – right up to the final boss.

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