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Ubisoft has shed a little light on its new Tom Clancy open-world RPG for Xbox One and PS4, The Division. First and foremost, the game has no predefined classes. Players are allowed to assign skills to their characters as they see fit and those skills are "totally changeable." So, you're able to spec your character as a healer or tank or whatever the situation demands.

The publisher also detailed The Division's second screen experience, which allows players to join games via a mobile device. Joining a game via a tablet allows players to take on the role of a drone that can provide a number of benefits to players on a console. The drone is able to heal and provide buffs to players, tag and debuff enemies, and it can even summon a missile strike. Drones have their own progression system as well.

As did many of the games shown at E3, The Division will employ a seamless multiplayer system, allowing online squads to play cooperatively or engage in PVP without leaving the game world. A "black-market economy" system will allow players to create weapons and items and trade them with others.

The Division has 'classless characters,' second screen detailed originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ubisoft has shed a little light on its new Tom Clancy open-world RPG for Xbox One and PS4, The Division. First and foremost, the game has no predefined classes. Players are allowed to assign skills to their characters as they see fit and those skills are "totally changeable." So, you're able to spec your character as a healer or tank or whatever the situation demands.

The publisher also detailed The Division's second screen experience, which allows players to join games via a mobile device. Joining a game via a tablet allows players to take on the role of a drone that can provide a number of benefits to players on a console. The drone is able to heal and provide buffs to players, tag and debuff enemies, and it can even summon a missile strike. Drones have their own progression system as well.

As did many of the games shown at E3, The Division will employ a seamless multiplayer system, allowing online squads to play cooperatively or engage in PVP without leaving the game world. A "black-market economy" system will allow players to create weapons and items and trade them with others.

The Division has 'classless characters,' second screen detailed originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In the midst of the E3 madness, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot acknowledged Rayman Legends' delay was over concern of low sales on and of Nintendo's Wii U.

"What happened was that we saw the Wii U was not going to sell enough of those games. The game is going to be fantastic, and we didn't want those creators to wind up in a position where even after making a fantastic game, they didn't sell well enough," Guillemot told VentureBeat. "We decided that we had to come out on enough machines that players can try it out on any one that they have, and give more time to both improve the game on the Wii U and create versions for the other consoles."

Low sales of Nintendo's latest console has certainly had an impact on third-party support. EA acknowledged it needs to see stronger sales to get back involved, and although Activision has Skylanders for the platform, we're still waiting for confirmation that Call of Duty: Ghosts will make it on the platform. Although, it should be noted that historically Activision's announcements of CoD on Nintendo platforms arrive later.

Nintendo is aware of its current predicament and hopes its first-party games between now and 2014 make the Wii U more attractive again.

Ubisoft admits Wii U sales drove Rayman Legends delay originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In the video above Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag multiplayer game director, Damien Kieken, explains the benefits of Game Lab, a new tool allowing you to create and share their own custom multiplayer match types. Over 200 different parameters can be tweaked through Game Lab, allowing you to limit certain abilities and change scoring in your own custom game type.

Assassin's Creed 4's Game Lab creates custom multiplayer modes originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In the video above Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag multiplayer game director, Damien Kieken, explains the benefits of Game Lab, a new tool allowing you to create and share their own custom multiplayer match types. Over 200 different parameters can be tweaked through Game Lab, allowing you to limit certain abilities and change scoring in your own custom game type.

Assassin's Creed 4's Game Lab creates custom multiplayer modes originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In the video above Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag multiplayer game director, Damien Kieken, explains the benefits of Game Lab, a new tool allowing you to create and share their own custom multiplayer match types. Over 200 different parameters can be tweaked through Game Lab, allowing you to limit certain abilities and change scoring in your own custom game type.

Assassin's Creed 4's Game Lab creates custom multiplayer modes originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This photo, snapped by Engadgeteer Ben Gilbert, shows the badge of one Patrice Desilets. You know, the guy that's reportedly in the middle of a lawsuit with his former employer, who suspended his game after firing him.

Luckily, Desilets is keeping himself busy by roaming the halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center while representing his new (fake) company: "MeMyself&I."

Seen@E3: Patrice Desilets returns originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This photo, snapped by Engadgeteer Ben Gilbert, shows the badge of one Patrice Desilets. You know, the guy that's reportedly in the middle of a lawsuit with his former employer, who suspended his game after firing him.

Luckily, Desilets is keeping himself busy by roaming the halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center while representing his new (fake) company: "MeMyself&I."

Seen@E3: Patrice Desilets returns originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We cornered (literally) Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag single-player game director Ashraf Ismail and asked him to detail the special Aveline content coming to PS3 and PS4 consoles. Ismail says the bonus PlayStation content will resume Aveline's story at the end of Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation and explains how Animus upgrades make it all possible.

Assassin's Creed 4 exclusive PlayStation content continues Aveline's story originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Traditionally, racing games are mainly a competitive affair, but The Crew will feature a co-op element where players can team up to tackle missions while racing across America. At E3, Ubisoft Reflections production director explains to Joystiq the appeal of teaming up with others and undertaking missions in a racing game.

The Crew will launch in early 2014 on Xbox One, PS4 and PC.

The Crew's Pete Young on mixing co-op and competitive racing originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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