After over a year of development in secret, Ubisoft has unveiled its latest and riskiest game, "Starlink: Battle for Atlas". It is a completely modular, smart building toy that we have developed from the ground up,” says Ubisoft Toronto producer Matt Rose. Starlink started out as a prototype and now has about 100 employees working on it at the company’s Wallace St. studio. While Ubisoft Toronto has done worked on a number of sequels including Far Cry 4, Assassin’s Creed Unity and Watch Dogs 2, Starlink is the studio’s first foray into what the industry calls new “IP” or intellectual property — a completely new story. The idea for Starlink started out years ago — after Ubisoft Toronto delivered its first game, 2013’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist — with a mandate from the company’s top brass to find innovative new approaches to gameplay.

Source: thestar June 12, 2017 21:22 UTC