‘Sea of Thieves’ is coming to Steam with crossplay

Microsoft's buccaneering simulator, Sea of Thieves, already has 10 million players on Xbox One and Windows 10. The company announced that the game is coming soon to Steam, adding to an already large stable of Microsoft games on Valve's platfo...

Ubisoft delays ‘Skull and Bones’ until at least mid-2020

We hope you didn't base your gaming calendar around Skull and Bones, the other multiplayer-focused pirate title. Ubisoft has revealed that the game has been delayed again, this time until sometime after the company's fiscal 2019-2020 (that is, after...

‘Sea of Thieves’ could learn a thing or two from ‘No Man’s Sky’

The second Sea of Thieves campaign-slash-major update hit Xboxes and PCs last week, and it is, in a word, dull. Cursed Sails isn't too dissimilar from the first campaign, The Hungering Deep, in that the main quest is basically just a case of sailing...

The debut ‘Sea of Thieves’ campaign almost makes it fun again

Sea of Thieves was an opportunity for Microsoft and studio Rare to do something completely new. The multiplayer pirate simulator promised endless hours of entertainment. A sandbox world steeped in lore in which you make your own adventures. But upon...

Skull and Bones is the Best Black Flag Spinoff We Could Hope For

E3 is going on right now and one very cool announcement has come from the show already. Ubisoft is working on a new game called Skull and Bones and it’s a pirate game that centers on naval combat. It looks pretty awesome.

The multiplayer action game is based on the ship combat from Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. I played that game A LOT and never did I stick to the normal story mode. Nay, I sailed the high seas and blasted the snot out of other ships, and captured and plundered, and enjoyed every second of it. The ship customization offered in that game made what I think was meant to be an ancillary part of the game the main course for me and many other gamers, I’m sure.

Skull and Bones expands on Black Flag’s gameplay, offering up multiplayer action on the high seas, as you must fight off other pirate ships while scrounging up as much loot as possible. You can get a look at some early pre-Alpha gameplay footage from Skull and Bones in the video below:

It looks pretty great, but Skull and Bones is a long way off though, with a launch date of fall 2018 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The game will be in a shared world and you can sail and plunder alone or with friends.

[via Kotaku]

‘Skull & Bones’ takes open world online gaming to the high seas

Ubisoft Singapore just announced its next game here at E3 2017, called Skull & Bones. It challenges players to rise to the rank of pirate king, while playing with their friends and against their enemies in an online open world. During the confere...