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Humble Ubisoft Bundle Encore Another week, another bundle. This time it's in partnership with the somewhat known Ubisoft known for bringing us games such as that one with the cars and that other one with the building climby people, or that other other one with the futurey gadget people. This time you have plenty of notice, more than 13 days in fact to scrape together those pennies for all of the games below, with more to be announced. This weeks charities are Extra Life / Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, Stack-Up, and Girls Who Code so why not dig deep, or shallow you tight buggers and have fun supporting them! For a mere $1 you can get the three games above to tide you over until you get chance to play the games below if you paid over the average, which is currently $5.04. And by the time the bundle is over, there will be at least one more game to play. Whose hoping the next game will be Watchdogs? And for those of you who aren't tight buggers, you can get the games below by paying over $15 and $75 respectively for the drivey, climby and futurey games mentioned before! A noteworthy mention is that the majority of these games are only redeemable on Ubisofts uPlay platform as opposed to the usual Steam for these bundles. But for the potential price, you can't really complain can you?

The Division Update 1.1 Lost the Falcon On April 12th Ubisoft will be releasing Update 1.1 for The Division and included with this is a new, free mission called an incursion. The incursion, Falcon Lost will take you outside of the normal game area for a raid like mission. If you're not yet level 30 yet(chop chop) or don't have decent gear then I think you'll need to spend the next few days wisely to prepare for it. If the challenging daily missions are anything to go by, this new mission will be a tough son of a female dog. Especially seeing as though the entire mission has no checkpoints so if you all die then you'll have to start from scratch. To complement the new update, Ubisoft will also be unleashing their shiny banhammer on the people that feel the need to cheat or glitch to ruin the game for others. I've not knowingly encountered any cheaters but I do know how frustrating they are in online games so this is very much welcome. It's also been mentioned that no Ubisoft team has been able to beat the new mission on its challenging difficulty. *correct at time of sleeping, factuality may vary* For a full list of bug fixes and new things head over the the Ubisoft Blog here.

The Division - A Little Bit Divided The Division's launch is now a few days behind us, and overall it appears to be have been a successful launch minus a handful of hiccups. There were a few reports of people being unable to login to the game in the hours after the servers were enabled that gave some users the dreaded 'Mike' error. It was apparently named after our own Mike as the servers just refused to lift a finger and do any work! (hehe) I'm one of those boring people who has a job, so was unable to experience any of these issues as they had mostly been resolved by the time I got home. But I did encounter a somewhat annoying issue at the beginning of the game. Those of you that have played will know that at the start you need to activate your character in a safe house before you are let loose to raise havoc on the city of New York. This laptop however, for some people had other ideas and simply would not let more than 1 person activate at a given time, meaning the forming of an orderly queue became a bit of a side-quest for players. [caption id=attachment_4412" align="alignnone" width="800] "The Computer Says No"[/caption] This was quite problematic as activation requires holding a button for a couple of seconds. And with everyone eager to play the game this resulted in nobody being able to play the game when in certain servers. In fact it took me over an hour of pressing the square button, cooking dinner and even eating my dinner before I could play the game. But when I could, I found it quite enjoyable. The game blends two genres, a shooter with role-playing game mechanics and I have to say that they have done this rather well. The RPG elements aren't overly complicated and shouldn't put off those who are not really into levelling skills, choosing perks and what not. The shooter side is also nicely done with them striking a balance between single player enjoyment and playing in a team of people. [caption id=attachment_4415" align="alignnone" width="800] Yo Dog![/caption] Some people are not too sure on the game, but from who I've talked to about The Division, they all seem to enjoy it. Especially with the Easter eggs that have been scattered around New York, however I won't be the one to spoil these for you. How are you finding The Division yourself? Share your thoughts and experiences with us in the forums when you can tear yourself away from it.

The Division Launch Trailer Has Launched 6.4 million of you got involved with the open beta a couple of weekends ago and as far as we know, their servers stood up to the challenge pretty well. So if the beta is anything to go by, Ubisoft look set to have a rather successful release on their hands if their servers can cope with the load. Check out the launch trailer that they have recently released. And no, we're not quite sure why they have called it their launch trailer either unless we're missing a trick. I don't know about you, but I really cannot wait for the worldwide release next Tuesday on March 8th. Only 6 more sleeps to go now and why not get prepared for it by checking out our The Division meetup thread to find other like minded players to take on New York with?