E3 announcement incoming
First off, I know what you’re thinking: “an aaaaaaaah-ip? What the hell’s an aaaaaaaah-ip.” Well, “AAA” (not to be confused with AARP, AA, RPG, NWA, et al) is kinda like how there’s Major League Baseball (MLB), but those teams have “AAA” (pronounced “triple A”) and “AA” teams beneath them in the same organization,exceptfor the fact that, in the world of video games, AAA is actually MLB and baseball’s AAA is more like the video game equivalent of, say, Activision’sNinja Turtlesgame, maybe?
Now as for “IP,” not to be confused withIp Man(which is not pronounced “I-P,” or even “ip,” but, rather, “Yip”), that just means “intellectual property,” a term for creative works people come up with, like a novel someone writes about a minor league baseball player. The terms exists because it’s 2016 and we haven’t made being a lawyer punishable by law yet.
Glad I could clear all that up for you.
So Ubisoft plans to make a big budget video game that doesn’t come from an existing series and it plans to do thatbeforeMarch 2017. Ubi’s financial report, as noted byVentureBeat, lists “5 big games” for “Fiscal Year 2017,” which means to be released before March 2017:Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands,Watch Dogs 2,South Park: The Fractured But Whole,For Honor, plus the mystery game.
To Ubisoft’s credit, while many of its games bleed into the same style and don’t feel quite new, the company is better than some of its ilk at getting new IP out (likeThe DivisionorThe Crew). We should see it at E3 and unlikeWatch DogsandThe Division, if Ubisoft gets you excited with this one, you know you’re able to actually expect it soon — perhaps in the same February spot the company droppedFar Cry PrimalandThe Divisionin this year.
