

Which makes sense, given that millions of people were logging into Uplay at once, all clawing at the feet of a free game. Yet as the Ubisoft server maintenance team will no doubt confirm, things didn’t exactly go down well on the night. Yet I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t also very excited to get my free copy of Watch Dogs 2, an excellent game that was being handed out to everyone watching the stream live. Sure, it was exciting seeing all that new footage on Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, Watch Dogs: Legion and an official cinematic trailer for Far Cry 6, don’t get me wrong.


While plenty of folks were beyond excited to see Ubisoft’s new line-up of forthcoming games revealed during Sunday’s Ubisoft Forward digital showcase, there was a secondary reason many people tuned into the livestream.
