Ubisoft's Uplay becomes digital store

NewsPublish Date 16/08/2012 - 5:17pm GMT+1

Launches with PC titles on sale for as little as £1.

Ubisoft has launched Uplay PC, an application which serves as a digital distribution platform and a launcher for all the publisher's Uplay-enabled PC games.

Uplay PC replaces individual game launchers and lets gamers access all their Uplay-enabled PC games and Uplay services in the same place. The application also includes new features, such as an integrated shop, the direct purchase and download of games, a friends list and chat system.

As part of the launch promotion Ubisoft is offering PC versions of Driver: San Francisco, From Dust, Silent Hunter 5 and Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 for just £1.

Other popular titles - including Anno 2070, Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Revelations, Might & Magic: Heroes VI, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction - are discounted up to 75 per cent.

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pblive

Yey, HAWX 2!

Posted 07:54 on 17 August 2012

CheekyLee

I have to say, the main thing I got from the donwload was knowledge that Ghost Recon Online apparently exists now. Not sure how I missed that one... However, clicking the 'PLAY' button takes me to a website to install the game. WHY? Launch it from the LAUNCHER program I just installed!

Also, clicking the X in the corner closed the program completely. I didn't even get the option to just minimise it to tray instead. Amateur hour mistakes being made, here.

Posted 23:20 on 16 August 2012

Batmamerc

As fantasy Meister said except BOOM from dust is £1 wanted that for ages but it's been bout £12 on steam n can't b bothered wit the Xbox controls so yay for uplay lol.

Posted 23:05 on 16 August 2012

FantasyMeister

First Origin, now UPlay, everyone trying to get a slice of the digital marketplace. Activision will have to follow suit somehow. I mean they already have a digital download store, but it's not exactly all bells and whistles (in fact it's a bit user-unfriendly, you can't actually sign up for an account with them until you checkout with something).

And then someone needs to say "Hey, why buy your games all over the place, why not get them all from a one-stop shop?" and then Steam will rise to ascendancy again.

Posted 18:41 on 16 August 2012