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Many will remember how late in 2021 and into early 2022, when the conversations around NFTs, play-to-earn, and Web3 in video games were hot, Ubisoft seemingly went all in on seeking to integrate NFTs ...

Solidaires Informatique, which represents workers at Ubisoft Paris, came out hard against Ubisoft's NFT plan. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Players aren’t the only ones unhappy with the company’s new plans. Last week, Ubisoft made the terrible decision of releasing a new trailer for Ubisoft Quartz. Called “the first platform for playable ...

An Ubisoft executive has responded to the backlash against the company's push to add NFTs (non-fungible tokens) to its games. In December, the publisher announced Quartz, an NFT platform that lets ...

Ubisoft Quartz NFT is now being criticized for being merely "useless" by the French trade union, Solidaires Informatique, which represents the employees of the game developer in Paris. Ubisoft ...

Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles looks like a decent strategy game but is marred by the unwashed stink of blockchain chicanery. Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles looks like a decent ...

Ubisoft is now a key investor in Frontier, an NFT project that is planning to launch a game later this year. Frontier tweeted out the news earlier today, with the official Ubisoft account replying ...

And despite all the bold talk of "decentralization," the Quartz system is still so deeply controlled by Ubisoft that we wonder whether a simple internal database managed directly by the company would ...

Ubisoft’s first experiment with non-fungible tokens (called “Quartz Digits”) in Ghost Recon Breakpoint is already winding down just four months after it started. The short saga serves as a prime ...

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