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French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir, with support from the Stop Killing Games initiative, has filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft over the 2024 shutdown of the racing game The Crew. An announcement on the UFC-Que Choisir ( Google translated ) says Ubisoft's decision to close the ga
Open world online racer The Crew was recently resurrected by a team of enthusiast developers after its original developer Ubisoft wrote it off last year. But it turns out The Crew Unlimited was on course to return to the scrapyard relatively soon, had its new pit crew not nixed a
Earlier this month, fan-made revival project The Crew Unlimited , brought Ubisoft's decommissioned racer The Crew back to life in server emulated PC form. Now, its devs have put out an update outlining a couple of things they're working on to try and take things to the next level
You've got to hand it to the developers behind The Crew Unlimited. They are doing what Ubisoft refused to, and supporting the always-online racer for players who bought it. Ubisoft decided to turn the servers off last year, rendering the game completely unplayable, despite the fa
The Crew Unlimited , a fan project making Ubisoft racer The Crew playable again following its unceremonious shutdown last year, released yesterday, September 15th. There's been some early issues to rectify, with the developers having put out two hotfixes already and emphasised th
I'll be honest, I never really understood all the ardour for The Crew, but that's no criticism. There are plenty of games (hello, Mafia 3) that I love to the absolute bafflement of my friends and loved ones, and I'd be very sad if they got taken away. So even if I don't know what
There's a fresh update from the organisers of the Stop Destroying Videogames citizens' initiative , that being the petition asking EU lawmakers to look into the issue of publishers rendering online games unplayable when servers are switched off . Despite some concerns on their pa
The Crew, the Ubisoft street racing game that met an unfortunate end in 2024, may live again. The Crew Unlimited, a fan-made effort to revive the game through a "custom server emulator," says the work is just about complete and will be ready to launch on September 15... Read more
The developers behind The Crew Unlimited, a community project that aims to make Ubisoft racer The Crew playable again following its unceremonious shutdown last year, have announced a release date. If you need a bit of a refresher, Ubisoft's decision to take The Crew's servers off
The Stop Destroying Videogames citizens' initiative , the petition asking EU lawmakers to look into the issue of publishers rendering online games unplayable when official support runs its course , hit its deadline at the end of last month looking like it'd amassed more than enou
The Stop Destroying Videogames citizens' initiative, the EU petition that's part of the Stop Killing Games campaign, has had an anonymous transparency complaint filed against it. That's according to Ross Scott, the YouTuber who's become the figurehead of Stop Killing Games , whic
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has addressed the Stop Killing Games consumer rights campaign, stating that end-of-life support for old online games 'a far reaching issue' that the publisher is 'working on' but that 'nothing is eternal' when it comes to videogame services... Read more
The Stop Killing Games campaign's petition to the European Commission has hit a major milestone, surpassing a million signatures. However, the YouTuber behind this effort to stop companies from rendering games unplayable by shutting down their servers is still asking for more fol
Ubisoft felt bad enough about killing The Crew in 2024 that it promised to never, ever do it again —in The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest, at least. But it doesn't feel so bad that it's willing to admit it actually did anything wrong: In response to a proposed class action lawsuit
A response from Ubisoft and its lawyers to the claims of an ongoing lawsuit a number of The Crew players affected by the game's shutdown has surfaced, and it's an interesting read, if pretty depressing if you're still under the illusion that you actually own any of the games you'
Ubisoft's lawyers have responded to a legal action from players of defunct racing game The Crew by insisting that those players never owned the game in the first place. The players made their lawsuit to complain about the game being made unplayable when servers were shut down las
A new European Citizens' Initiative, entitled 'Stop Destroying Video Games,' has accumulated over 400,000 signatures and counting. The online petition calls for publishers to ensure that games are left in a playable state when they shut down support. The Crew was left completely
Two Californians are suing Ubisoft over fraud, and several other complaints, due to the publisher's shutdown of The Crew in April, which left players unable to access even the singleplayer portion of this online-only racing game. While the lawsuit (spotted by Polygon ) only inclu
new California law set to come into effect in 2025 will make it illegal for sellers to use terms like "buy" or "purchase" in relation to digital goods—movies, books, and of course videogames—unless they provide a "clear and conspicuous" warning to consumers that those goods could
Perhaps still stinging from the unexpectedly ferocious reaction to its decision to bring The Crew to a sudden, unwanted stop, Ubisoft announced today that offline modes are being developed for The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest... Read more.