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As reported by The Gamer, a member of A Better Ubisoft recently came forward to discuss the recent departures under a condition of anonymity. They describe Assassin’s Creed: Red’s director as prone to angry outbursts and unwanted sexual advances and blame him for “creating a climate of fear” within the studio. RELATED: Ubisoft Denies Reports About Assassin’s Creed: Mirage Loot Boxes and ‘Real Gambling’ “Dumont has been the reason [for] multiple of my colleagues leaving,” the source told The Gamer....

Battle royale games have been gaining massive popularity in recent years with titles like Apex Legends, Fortnite, and Call of Duty Warzone 2 reigning supreme. It should come as no surprise that several major game publishers have looked to capitalize on this growing space for a while. Hyper Scape was Ubisoft’s first major attempt at the genre. However, the game failed to bear fruit, and Hyper Scape was eventually shut down on April 28, 2022....

As part of a new executive order from Biden, the administration will also ban alcohol, seafood and diamonds from Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine, which is currently in its third week. The move is part of a series of actions by the U.S. and Western nations to chip away at Russia’s economy through sanctions and bans. So far, these sanctions have shown negative impacts on Russia’s economy, with Fitch Ratings slashing the country’s credit rating to “junk status” and the ruble dramatically falling in value....

The virus was first detected in China’s Wuhan city of the Hubei province and the country claims it has been largely contained, reporting no new domestic cases. More cases have now been reported outside China than within. China has nearly 81,200 cases, with more than 3,100 deaths and more than 70,000 recoveries. Americans will likely need to stay home for several weeks Americans will likely need to continue to practice social distancing by staying home for at least “several weeks,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr....

MORE: Solo in photos | Hottest soccer WAGs The U.S. women’s team goalkeeper is asking that two counts of fourth-degree assault be dropped because her attorney hasn’t been able to interview the alleged victims. The charges stem from a June 21 altercation with her sister and 17-year-old nephew, and the next hearing is set for Dec. 30. “The defense has been seriously prejudiced by the actions of the City’s witnesses,” attorney Todd Maybrown wrote in the motion, filed Wednesday in Kirkland (Wash....

New analysis and economic research seeks answers for why all six presidents who presided over the fastest periods of U.S. job growth were Democrats, while recent Republicans including both Bushes and Donald Trump saw the least expansion. A New York Times analysis released Tuesday, which draws from vast research, asks the question, “Why has the U.S. economy fared so much better under Democratic presidents than Republicans?” The authors noted that GOP presidents in the past several decades have run up larger deficits than Democrats and party control of Congress has shown minimal impact on growth....

“I feel incredibly fortunate to be home, I can’t believe the amount of effort that went into it that was necessary to make this happen–overwhelming gratitude,” Fenster said. The 37-year-old, who is the managing editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York Tuesday and reunited with his mother, brother and father. He traveled back to Huntington Woods, Michigan, and was greeted by more family and friends Tuesday night, the AP reported....

Danny Fenster is the managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, an online news magazine based in Yangon, the country’s biggest city. He was detained on May 24 at Yangon International Airport when he was about to board a flight to the United States to see his family. Until July of last year, Fenster worked as a reporter and copy editor for the online news site Myanmar Now, and joined Frontier Myanmar the following month....

While many countries are mandating paid leave including holidays and sick days, the United States is still the only developed country with no statutory paid leave, with only the Pacific Island countries of Micronesia, Kiribati and Nauru offering the same. Resume building website Resume.io analyzed paid leave laws in 197 countries around the world and found that the U.S. offered the second least amount of paid vacation time, with an average of 10 days, as well as the fewest days of paid leave....

The government’s debt ceiling went back into effect on August 1 at $28.4 trillion after being suspended for two years. The Treasury is taking what it calls “extraordinary measures” in order to free up more borrowing room while remaining under the debt limit and avoid default. “The period of time that extraordinary measures may last is subject to considerable uncertainty due to a variety of factors … exacerbated by the heightened uncertainty in payments and receipts related to the economic impact of the pandemic,” Brian Smith, Treasury deputy assistant secretary for federal finance, told the Associated Press in a statement....

“It is bound to happen when both the teams are playing the sixth match in these weather conditions. I want to give credit to the Mali coach for the way he set his team up and they were tough,” the former Atletico de Madrid man commented. Shifting focus to the final on Saturday, a repeat of the Euro U17 final earlier this summer when the Spanish won via penalty shootouts, Denia assessed that his charges would need to step up their game....

The Brazilian was fined AED1,000 (€219) by the UAE FA’s disciplinary committee for his hairstyle. Caio’s punishment comes just a week after Murad Batna of Al Wahda was hit with a similar fine for the same offence. The UAE’s Arabian Gulf League imposes strict restrictions on hairstyles, and players who wear mohawks or leave the side of their heads shaved are at risk of fines. Former Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan also ran afoul of the league’s hair restrictions last season....

The Whites are fourth in the standings and apart from winning their own game in Jordan, need Australia and Saudi Arabia to slip up while also hoping for a huge swing in goal difference. UAE 7/4 to beat Iraq The odds are stacked against them but regardless of the outcome, head coach Edgardo Bauza is desperate for the win. “Calculations are difficult because they depend on the results of others,” said Bauza....

Co-op was a new idea for Assassin’s Creed last year, but Ubisoft has ultimately decided not to move forward with a co-op mode in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. They are instead opting to have the game be entirely single-player, with one player controlling both playable protagonists. Furthermore, Syndicate is not featuring a multiplayer component at all, co-op or otherwise. Since Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, the series has utilized multiplayer in some form every year....

A transcript of the conference call posted by industry insider Daniel Ahmad highlights the delay announcement, with Ubisoft saying “production challenges caused by COVID-19” have caused the games to have their release dates moved. While the company has yet to decide on new release dates for Far Cry 6 and the horror-focused Rainbow Six Quarantine, a general release window was provided for both games. RELATED: Far Cry 6 Continues One Trend That Ubisoft Should Abandon...

The move makes sense on a number of levels for Ubisoft, as the company already owns four studios in France and was founded there, while Ubisoft’s Blue Byte development studio in Germany has been an established presence in that country for over a decade. The announcement was made on the official Ubisoft blog, and while the Bordeaux studio seems to be focused on helping existing franchises like Ghost Recon and Just Dance, the Berlin group will be working closely with Blue Byte on “an unannounced AAA project” according to the official release....

When a publisher renews a trademark, speculation often comes forth. Although the renewal could simply be necessary behind-the-scenes paperwork, it also sometimes leads to exciting news, like how the game Skate 4 was revealed this year after EA renewed the Skate trademark late in 2019. RELATED: Beyond Good and Evil 2 in Playable State, Gameplay Reveal Coming in 2021 There are many possibilities as to why Ubisoft renewed the Beyond Good & Evil trademark....

Ubisoft Stockholm is currently advertising a plethora of game designer industry jobs, and a lot of the required information hints at a bigger project. Talk of Ubisoft working on a new MMO game has been circulating for several months, but taking a look at several advertised job roles reveal more evidence hinting at what the IP is going to involve. RELATED: Former Ubisoft Massive Studio Manager Confirms Resignation The Lead Game Designer role at the Stockholm company is asking for employees to have experience in action/combat design experience, which hints at a more combat centric video game effort....

The nationalistic newspaper—owned by the People’s Daily which is the Chinese Communist Party’s official publication—asked social media users to suggest which U.S. consulate in China would be ordered closed in response to the shuttering of the Houston facility, which means all staff will be evicted by Friday. The U.S. order—given to “to protect American intellectual property and American’s private information,” according to State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus—was met with scorn in Beijing....