Ubisoft Game Leak

[Exequiel Mondragon]

Maybeit's just the fact that it's a leak which adds a bit of salt-of-the-earth mystique. The scripted vignettes of, say, an NPC hucking someone out of a building are actually more charming when I know it's not just some brewed-in-a-lab, choreographed moment designed to 'make the world feel more alive' for prospective buyers. The official Outlaws presentations have been so chemically-engineered to not ruffle any feathers it's been a hard game to get excited about.

Similarly, r/gamingleaksandrumours has a smattering of former sceptics responding to the footage with the overall equivalent of 'hey, not too shabby'. Don't place all your bets on red just yet, though, we're talking "Looks fun, but it's the type of game I would get in 5 years for like $10" levels of excitement.

For my part, I'm cautiously optimistic. I think at the very least Star Wars Outlaws is going to be just fine, a bog standard Ubisoft game with a glossy open world and way too many little whatsits to collect and outposts to "press X to knockout" at. I fully expect to hack into a datapad at some point and be brought to a map screen to watch a dopamine-hit of icons pop up. Bare minimum, it's nice to be getting more Star Wars games where you're not swinging a lightsaber around. Now if only Ubisoft could stop fumbling the bag on pre-order nonsense.

Of course, it doesn't help that hackers have already targeted Ubisoft at least twice over the past few years. In 2020, the ransomware group Egregor leaked 560GB of source code for Watch Dogs Legion. Ubisoft experienced another security breach in 2022, which appeared to have disrupted some of its online games and services. Following the incident, the company stated that it rectified the issue and had taken precautionary measures. Now it appears that another attempt has been made at the French publisher.

Recently, security research collective vx-underground tweeted screenshots claiming to be from Ubisoft's internal software. They claim to have gained access to the Ubisoft SharePoint server, Microsoft Teams, Confluence, and MongoDB Atlas panel on December 20. The attacker reportedly had access for 48 hours before Ubisoft detected an issue and revoked their access, says vx-underground. Further claims indicate that the attempt was to steal 900GB of data, including Rainbow Six Siege user information, though unsuccessful. According to BleepingComputer, Ubisoft is aware of the security breach claim and is currently investigating the matter.

The Ubisoft incident comes merely two weeks after the massive Insomniac Games data breach. The ransomware group Rhysida leaked about 1.67TB of data after the studio reportedly refused to pay a $2 million ransom. The leaked data included a plethora of content around the upcoming Marvel's Wolverine game along with other internal documentation such as development costs and Sony's plans for X-Men games. More importantly, sensitive personal information pertaining to Insomniac's employees was also made public as part of the data breach.

While it appears that Ubisoft's incident may not be as troubling as Insomniac's, the threat has likely raised alarm bells at the company already. The publisher has a slate of promising games on the way, including several Assassin's Creed titles and an open-world Star Wars game from Massive Entertainment. Ubisoft's upcoming AAA projects make the company a prime target for cybercriminals, particularly given how ambitious cyberattacks have been over recent years. In any case, time will tell how far the alleged threat actors have gotten and if Ubisoft is in any real danger of its internal data being exposed.

Some of these things he listed seems plausible, but some seems completely bull. The Xbox 8s GPU better than the Wii Us? Then why is Epic complaining about the Xbox 8 and PS4s specs while only praising the Wii U? AND A 6GHZ DEV KIT?!?!?! I don't know of any computer out there that runs that much, or if it even needs it.

Errr...

The sync button is on the rear of that E3 '11 controller... so that square button on the front of the leaked version maybe isn't the sync, like some have suggested?

Edit: Some have also guessed its for switching screens, of course.

As you can see from the image on the side here, Assassin's Creed III's box art has officially been released by Ubisoft, and it confirms what everyone on the Internet has been buzzing about for the last couple of days: the lead character is of Native American descent, and the game takes place during the American Revolution.

All sorts of different art leaks had been popping up over the last day or two, some via a Best Buy employee posting promotional art sent to the store in anticipation of the reveal, and another via Game Informer's website (snagged by a NeoGAF user), which inadvertently posted a banner showing a new assassin holding a tomahawk and old-timey pistol against the backdrop of Washington crossing the Delaware.

And now we have confirmation of all of that. The lead character will be (at least partly) of Native American descent, and will be stabbing/shooting dudes against the backdrop of America's fight for independence. It's not that I hate the British or anything, but frankly, I'm quite looking forward to the notion of dropping a few tomahawks on a few Redcoat skulls. It'll be just like the movie The Patriot! Except with time travel. And without Mel Gibson. And maybe not horrible.

I can't wait to get my Daniel Day Lewis in Last Of The Mohicans on. I hope we'll be witness to the formation of the Culper Ring among other cool covert things that happened during the Revolutionary War.

After being frustrated with so many annual iterations on this game (and not even playing more than a couple hours into Assassin's Creed 4), this cover just got me excited about it. Earlier this morning, I would have said "the next Assassin's Creed might be my least anticipated game of the year".

That's a pretty bad ass cover. I like the choice of time period although I hope they try to stay as accurate to Native American culture as they can rather than engaging in the hokey "hollywoodified" version that is so often portrayed in T.V. and movies.

I really hope the protagonist is a completely different type of person than Ezio. I got fed up with that charming Italian bloke and don't even feel like playing Revelations even though I played the every other one.

I really wanted the next one to be Desmond as the assassin. I reckon this will be cool but I don't want the franchise run into the ground before I see the conclusion of the story I find most interesting.

Apparently, the team working on this is a senior team that has focused solely on this project since ACII. The other two games were done by other teams. That is really encouraging. ALSO FUCK YEAH TOMAHAWKS.

Ubisoft said the game features new enemy character models as well as entirely new cinematic sequences along with enhanced voices, sounds, parkour animations and soundtrack. The camera, controls and combat have been rebuilt, and you can choose between original or modernised mapping.

The leak, spotted by eagle-eyed ResetEra user AndrewDTF, doesn't do the game any favours in the looks department (the memes have already begun!), but this isn't exactly how Ubisoft hoped the world would get its first look at the Prince in his fancy clothes.

However, in many incidents, ransomware gangs are also get caught and kicked out of networks during the data exfiltration process, and files are never encrypted. Nevertheless, they still extort companies, asking victims for money to not leak sensitive files.

For the Ubisoft leak, the Egregor group shared files to suggest they were in possession of source code from one of the company's Watch Dogs games. On its web portal, the group touted they were in possession of the source code for the Watch Dogs: Legion game, scheduled to be released later this month. It was, however, impossible to verify that these files came from the new game, rather than an existing release.

For the past year, security researchers have tried to reach out and notify Ubisoft about several of its employees getting phished, with no results, which may provide a clue of how the hackers might have got it.

The Crytek files included documents that appeared to have been stolen from the company's game development division. These documents contained resources and information about the development process of games like Arena of Fate and Warface, but also Crytek's old Gface social gaming network.

Neither Ubisoft nor Crytek responded to emails seeking comment on the leaks. None of the companies reported major security incidents weeks, nor any abnormal and prolonged downtimes, suggesting the Egregor intrusion didn't likely impact cloud and gaming system, but merely backend office and work networks, where most ransomware incidents usually incur damages.

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