There has been a lot of talk recently about both the merit of platform exclusive games and digital games, and Microsoft's latest partnership with Ubisoft seems to be a move to support both its Xbox platform on PC and console as well as its digital game sales. The new Xbox × Ubisoft initiative will grant buyers of certain Ubisoft games on the Xbox Store a free PC license that can be redeemed via Ubisoft Connect.

Ubisoft and Microsoft will include any games purchased from July 21 in this agreement, but those PC licenses will gradually be added to user accounts in a progressive rollout slated to be completed on August 4. There are 13 games in total covered by this agreement, and the free license only goes one way—you cannot purchase the PC version of the game in order to get a free Xbox license. Additionally, content like season passes and DLC content will also cross over from Xbox to PC, but consumables and single-use items will not. It also seems as though the games will be locked to the Ubisoft Connect platform instead of something like Steam.

A recent Ubisoft job listing for a Senior Level Designer for an unannounced project has sparked rumors that a new instalment in the The Crew is coming soon. The job listing in question is for a new position working at Ubisoft's Ivory Tower office in Lyon, France, and it specifies experience working on level design for AAA games, with a preference for applicants with experience in "AI Level Design." That last bit has many gamers online concerned that The Crew will be using generative AI in the level design process, which would align with Ubisoft's apparent push for AI integration into video games. Curiously, The Crew 2 featured an open world and encouraged players to explore, so the AI system Ubisoft is looking to implement may be a way to augment that and make the world feel more realistic, which is supposedly the goal of the studio's latest AI-powered NPC system.

This isn't the first time the next-gen The Crew has popped up, with prior leaks from industry insider, Tom Henderson, claiming that a third mainline game had been green lit as long ago as May 2025. If you've followed The Crew as a game series, you'll know it is no stranger to controversies, with the decommissioning of The Crew having been one of the motivators behind the recent Stop Killing Games movement, a move that resulted in a number of gamers losing trust in both Ubisoft and the game series as a whole. Now, after news broke about the next instalment in The Crew using generative AI front-and-center, there are users already commenting that they will be avoiding the game when it launches.

NVIDIA today released GeForce 397.93 WHQL "Game Ready" drivers. The drivers come with optimization for "The Crew" closed beta and "State of Decay 2." SLI profiles are either added or updated for "DRG Initiative," and "Star Wars: Battlefront II." The drivers also introduce CUDA 9.2 support. In addition, the drivers also address a number of bugs.

You now no longer need to close Steam to enable/disable SLI. A "Wolfenstein II: TNC" bug that causes the game to freeze in the Roosevelt area, is fixed. A critical issue is fixed on machines with both "Pascal" and "Kepler" GPUs installed, in which the driver fails to load. Green flickering noticed in "Far Cry 5" when using HDR on non-native screen-resolution, is fixed. Grab the drivers from the link below.DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 397.93 WHQL

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Today, Ubisoft announced that The Crew 2, the newest iteration in the revolutionary open world driving franchise The Crew, will launch on June 29th, 2018, for PlayStation4 computer entertainment system, the Xbox One family of devices and Windows PC. In addition, The Crew 2 has been enhanced with additional features for PS4 Pro systems.

Developed by Ubisoft Ivory Tower, a studio based in Lyon, France, The Crew 2 will let players experience the thrill of American motorsports inside a fully redesigned USA. The game's playground pushes physical boundaries to let driving and open world fans test their skills, solo or with friends, in nonstop competition and exploration. From coast to coast, drivers will explore America and compete to become the greatest motorsports champion, by collecting a wide variety of exotic cars, bikes, boats and planes, and dominating the motorsports scene on the land, on the water and in the air. Players will find challenges and inspiration among four different motorsports families: street racing, off-road, pro racing and freestyle, and will be given a broad set of options among a wide selection of vehicle types.