Ubisoft games to be available on Steam

[Pave Low]

Ubisoft Expands Game Catalog on Steam

Ubisoft is delivering a slate of more than 40 action-packed games to Steam, including Assassin’s Creed and the Tom Clancy series. Two fan favorites are now available to customers in Canada and the United States: the acclaimed action shooter, Far Cry, and the debut game in the groundbreaking stealth action series, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. Save 10% on either game when you buy before Tuesday, April 8th.

Starting today, the PC version of Assassin's Creed is available for pre-purchase. Be one of the first to play the highly-awaited PC adaptation of the console hit—complete with four bonus missions unique to the PC release—when it releases on April 9th.

Over the coming weeks, Ubisoft will bring many of its award-winning brands to Steam, including games from the Tom Clancy series, the Heroes of Might & Magic series, the IL-2 Sturmovik collection, and many more. The Ubisoft line-up on Steam will be the largest library of titles available from any single publisher or developer.

Should be good news, Particularly for people wanting to get some of the UBI titles that previously had Starforce in the Disk version.

[dporter]

I've never used steam, but from what I've read it seems to be the future for pc gaming. Lots of nice and interesting features.

[Dannik]

.. that previously had Starforce in the Disk version.

The thing is, Steam doesn't preclude the use of Starforce. After all, there was a big stink over BioShock's Steam release having a rather nasty build of SecuROM.

[Hockeystick]

Yay! I love Steam

I use it daily and it's very comfortable to play games without discs, and it's nice that you don't have to manually download patches. It's a better version of Xfire, and it's free (unlike Windows Live).

I'm thinking of selling my retail copies of Civilization IV and Medieval II Total War and then download them on Steam. I like it that much.