![]() ![]() The second day's offering is still live at the time of writing – a free copy of Starlink: Battle for Atlas Digital Edition but I think you better be quick as the offer refreshed every 24 hours, with the last day being Friday. Staring chronologically, Ubisoft began its event on Monday 14 th with some Assassin's Creed Valhalla rewards. ![]() For some lovely free software, particularly PC games, it looks like you will be spoilt by a number of digital games stores as both Epic Games and Ubisoft (separately not a collaborative effort) kick off holiday giveaway events. You’ll be able to find Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on Steam from December 6th, with other games from the publisher arriving on the storefront at a later date.HEXUS has some of the best giveaways over the festive period but we tend to concentrate on delicious hardware treats. The most notable interaction between Ubisoft and Steam recently was the publisher turning off online features for many of their older games at the beginning of last month. At that time, Ubisoft commented the deal with Epic was “a long-term positive”, with Epic taking less of a cut from game sales revenue than Valve. Ubisoft largely abandoned Steam in 2019 in favour of their own storefront, and exclusivity with the Epic Games Store that began with The Division 2. ![]() Ubisoft are just the most recent big publisher to bring their games back to Steam, following on from Activision launching Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.0 on the storefront in recent weeks. Back in summer 2021, the company’s CEO Yves Guillemot said they’d consider bringing games to the handheld “if it is big”. It could be that the success of Valve’s Steam Deck has caught Ubisoft’s attention. "We're constantly evaluating how to bring our games to different audiences wherever they are, while providing a consistent player ecosystem through Ubisoft Connect," a spokesperson for the publisher said. ![]()
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