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The Edge Awards 2013: Publisher of The Year

3. Ubisoft

Ubisoft was a force across all platforms in 2013, taking risks on curiosities such as Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, cultivating an expensive niche with Rayman Legends, and developing the best of the PS4 and Xbox One launch titles with Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, while also investing in mobile. The Division, The Crew and Watch Dogs suggest the creativity will continue into 2014.

2. Sony Computer Entertainment

The Last Of Us and Tearaway set new standards on PS3 and Vita, while releases such as Beyond: Two Souls, Puppeteer and Rain demonstrate Sony’s commendable willingness to take risks even if they might not always pay off.

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wonderfulmonkeyman3771d ago

Congrats to the top three. Well deserved!

hellzsupernova3771d ago

agreed its hard to argue with Nintendos quality thats for sure.

you could mix and match the top 3 they can all make a great case for it.

although i would say next year Ubisoft is going to be putting up a much bigger fight with Watch Dogs, The Crew, The Division, three new ip's big deal for them. All three are looking really impressive. (im sure theres more but those are the three that come to mind.)

Its great to see some of the big publishers taking risks with more varity then the usual shooters etc. Like puppeteer, Beyond two souls, Rain etc

HurstDarkStar3770d ago

To the people hat disagree'd with nintendo's quality. Care to explain why they're not because I can't see why they wouldn't be up there (I'm serious I actually Want to hear it"

Loadedklip3770d ago (Edited 3770d ago )

@HurstDarkstar ... I disagreed because of the "you could mix and match the top 3 they can all make a great case for it. " comment.

Sorry but no single publisher can beat this list this year. IF there is one ... try to list it.

Fire Emblem Awakening
Animal Crossing New Leaf
Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon
New Super Luigi U
Pikmin 3
Wonderful 101
Lego City Undercover
Super Mario 3D World
Pokemon XY
Legend of Zelda A Link Between Worlds
NES Remix
Wii Fit U
Wii Sports Club

Multiple game of the year caliber games and other high rated games. Nintendo was the best publisher in 2013 bar none ... it's not up for debate.

Loadedklip3770d ago

@HurstDarkstar ... I disagreed because of the "you could mix and match the top 3 they can all make a great case for it. " comment.

Sorry but no single publisher can beat this list this year. IF there is one ... try to list it.

Fire Emblem Awakening
Animal Crossing New Leaf
Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon
New Super Luigi U
Pikmin 3
Wonderful 101
Lego City Undercover
Super Mario 3D World
Pokemon XY
Legend of Zelda A Link Between Worlds
NES Remix
Wii Fit U
Wii Sports Club

Multiple game of the year caliber games and other high rated games and even casual friendly games. Nintendo was the best publisher in 2013 bar none ... it's not up for debate.

hellzsupernova3770d ago

You disagreed cause you are a Nintendo fanboy. My comment was nothing but positive towards all three companies and you just cannot handle that

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Shnazzyone3770d ago

Fire emblem, animal crossing, pokemon, pikmen 3, Luigi's mansion, Super Mario 3d land, Link between worlds...

Yeah, Nintendo definitely earned it this year in sheer quality releases alone.

HardcoreDaBoss3771d ago

I agree with this.. ubisoft, sony, and nintendo.. good article..

where is microsoft lol jk

scott1823771d ago

Congrats to Nintendo, they are doing great.

RPG_Lover3771d ago

Nintendo owned all this year

ritsuka6663770d ago

Mario 3d,zelda,wonderfull 101,pikmin 3, and im pretty sure im forgetting more but that shows how awesome Nintendo is as a game developer in 2013.

NeoTribe3770d ago

Is that why sony and ms are already pretty much caught up in hardware sales after only a month on the market? Yeah, there owning at being owned.

R00bot3770d ago

The Wii U sold 3.06 million in its first month. It's just launch hype.

demonddel3771d ago

Sony and Nintendo should join forces

wonderfulmonkeyman3771d ago

I prefer them separate.
That way, they spur each other on to do better.

Reeze3770d ago

Agreed. However, if they ever did join forces...

*mind explodes*

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Sony Patents To Prevent You From In-Game Harassment By Reading Your Emotions

A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.

Profchaos1d 13h ago (Edited 1d 13h ago )

I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.

I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons

I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.

exputers1d 9h ago

Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.

Profchaos18h ago(Edited 18h ago)

How rediculas really. You can't say a word that's allowed in most PG films and prime time TV but the game is based around killing the enemy team using guns, explosives etc.

It's just backwards.

just_looken20h ago

What your talking about is called block list

In 2006 a spaceship dropped of the playstation 3/xbox 360 i say that that generation was the last great gen with game functions/tech that has yet to comeback

Anyhow the playstation 3 if you block listed a id they could not talk to you in chatroom with either text or voice. But that was pre mind fucked 2018 when people were more human than sheep.

But hey gta 6 is coming out billion dollar budget without a single player custom character creator and without singeplayer coop off/online something saints row 1-3 had on the xbox 360.

z2g1d 5h ago

Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.

phoenixwing1d 5h ago

Cmon where's the pictures of your children. Don't hold out on them.

H91d 5h ago

At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath

jambola1d 1h ago

I genuinely get a bit worried sometimes when a friend says something that could be offensive In a party
Because I have no trouble believing some bans would happen when in a private party for saying something wrong

SegaSaturn6691d 4h ago

I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.

Popsicle1d 4h ago

Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.

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Sony Could Increase Your Game's Difficulty If It Sees You Complain About It

Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.

jznrpg1d 21h ago

This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.

Profchaos1d 21h ago

Souls games will be like that players struggling make it harder

PassNextquestion1d 20h ago (Edited 1d 20h ago )

I think if used correctly it could work well

jambola1d 16h ago

cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me

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Ubisoft's Recent Antics Have Me Fearful For The Sands of Time Remake

Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."

thorstein9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.

*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*

Chocoburger8d ago

At this point, only dummies have any hope left for Ubi-junk games.