Uplay wordt uitgebreid met EA en Warner

Ubisoft heeft aangegeven binnenkort enkele titels van EA en Warner toe te voegen aan hun Uplay-service. Daarnaast wil het bedrijf  meer titels gaan uitbrengen via EA's Origin. Een soort van vriendendienst dus. EA helpt Ubisoft en Ubisoft helpt EA. Het is nog niet bekend welke games hieronder vallen.

De Uplay-service is in 2009 begonnen met de launch van Assassin's Creed II. Momenteel heeft de dienst een dikke 50 miljoen gebruikers die games kunnen spelen van 15 partners die een totaal van 30 games leveren. Naast EA en Warner zijn ook SEA, 1C Softworks, bitComposer Games, Bohemia Interactive, Encore Software, Focus Home Interactive, Freebird Games, Iceberg, Nordic Games, Paradox Interactive, Recoil Games, Robot Entertainment, Telltale Games en Torn Banner Studios onderdeel van de dienst.

“We’ve been working on this for some time. We’ve been launching our own Uplay shop, and we wanted to make sure we offer a good experience from the start so we had to work on both the technical setup and all the negotiation with partners, and we thought the timing was good after the release of very strong PC titles from Ubisoft but also from partners.

We are also talking to many more partners, we’re looking into adding more partners to the Uplay shop in the coming weeks and months. So we want to have a broad offer, and we also want to provide another place maybe for some of the indie developers or smaller publishers to get in touch with an audience and we have a pre-launch user base that we think can be also beneficial to these developers and publishers.”