Ubisoft is currently hiring for an “unannounced AAA VR project”.
The job listings, for a variety of roles including character artist, level designer and narrative designer, are Ubisoft’s Dusseldorf studio in Germany. The job listings state the applicants will be working on “one of Ubisoft’s greatest IPs which will be developed across multiple studios”. Ubisoft Dusseldorf is one of the three studios that make up Ubisoft Blue Byte, developer of the Settlers and Anno series, and is also currently collaborating with Massive Entertainment on its untitled James Cameron’s Avatar project.
Ubisoft has a history in VR, although its never really explored its biggest IPs, like Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, The Division or Rainbow Six, in the VR medium. Up to now, the publisher has mostly worked on small-to-mid scale VR games such as the really rather good Space Junkies, Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Eagle Flight and Werewolves Within.
I would love to play an Assassin's Creed experience in VR.
There is an Ubisoft Rabbids experience for VR Arcades. I tried it a few times and plan to add my review to the Arcades megathread. I'm sure a home experience would be fun if they did something along the lines of that Rick/Morty experience. But the VR Arcade version was total pants.
All they need to do is port the first game and I'll quite happily pay for it again. I think they pretty much ran out of ideas after the first one, it was one of the best games released that generation imo.
And a great game to showcase motion controls too, which at the time was a completely new thing that hadn't been seen in gaming before.
I used to LOVE my Wii, probably my favourite console of all time.
