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Ubisoft Connect (formerly Ubisoft Game Launcher and later Uplay) is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications service developed by Massive Entertainment to provide an experience similar to the achievements/trophies offered by various other game companies. The service is provided across various platforms.
Compared to physically distributed games, digital games cannot be destroyed because they can be redownloaded from the distribution system. Services like Steam, Origin, and Xbox Live do not offer ways to sell used games once they are no longer desired. Steam offers a non-commercial family sharing options. [25]
Ubisoft is a video game company based in Saint-Mandé, France. Founded by five brothers in 1986, Ubisoft is well known for developing franchises such as Assassin's Creed , Far Cry , Just Dance , Prince of Persia , Tom Clancy's franchise, Watch Dogs , The Crew , TrackMania , Trials and Rayman .
Ubisoft ditched Steam several years ago in favor of Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Connect (formerly Uplay).
Steam is a digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation.It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005.
Ubisoft Anvil, formerly named Scimitar, is a proprietary game engine developed wholly within Ubisoft Montreal in 2007 for the development of the first Assassin's Creed game and has since been expanded and used for most Assassin's Creed titles and other Ubisoft games, including Ghost Recon Wildlands, Ghost Recon Breakpoint and For Honor.
Untitled Assassin's Creed mobile game Android: TBA TBA [a] [85] iOS: Beyond Good and Evil 2: TBA TBA Ubisoft Montpellier [97] [98] Untitled Rayman game TBA TBA Ubisoft Milan and Ubisoft Montpellier [99] Tom Clancy's The Division 3: TBA TBA Massive Entertainment [100] Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (remake) TBA TBA Ubisoft Toronto [101]
In May 2019, GOG announced plans for GOG Galaxy 2.0, which it aims to be a unified game launcher not only for GOG titles, but from other services such as Steam, Origin, Uplay, Epic Games Store, and including console systems through Xbox and PlayStation networks. It has an open API, so users can also create additional plug-ins for it.