This Week at Ubisoft: Assassin’s Creed Free Weekend, Growtopia Launches on Ubisoft Connect

This week at Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed kicked off its free weekend, an event that includes five games including Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag; and Growtopia launched on Ubisoft Connect. Check it all out and more in this week's roundup of Ubisoft news.

Play 5 Assassin's Creed Games for Free This Weekend

From now through August 14, you can play five Assassin's Creed games for free: Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Revelations, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Whether you're itching for revenge in Renaissance-era Italy, yearning to sail on the high seas of the Caribbean, or eager to raid ninth-century England with your Viking brethren, this free weekend offers every kind of adventure. Plus, the Assassin's Creed franchise is on sale at the Ubisoft Store until August 17, so if you want to continue your journey after the free weekend ends, you can get up to 85% off, and all your progress will carry over.

Growtopia Now Available on Ubisoft Connect

On August 7, Growtopia came to Ubisoft Connect. Previously available solely for iOS and Android devices, Growtopia is a free-to-play online game that lets you build, grow, and punch anything to create whatever you can imagine, whether that's a decorative world, unique items, or fashionable accessories for your avatar. Through your world design, you can even create shops or minigames to share with other players. Growtopia offers multiple in-game events every week, monthly updates, and more than 12 annual events.

Ubisoft+ Spotlight - Assassin's Creed Valhalla

(Editorial note: This is a series of quick weekly highlights written by Ubisoft News team writers that feature games available with a Ubisoft+ subscription. We hope you'll enjoy reminiscing with us, or perhaps discover something new.)

Brittany Spurlin, Writer/Editor: Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a gritty dive into ninth-century England, where you'll face threats from enemy armies, the Order of the Ancients, and even within your own clan. As Eivor Varinsdottir, a high-ranking member of the Raven clan, you'll work to expand your Viking settlement, broker alliances, and fight to earn glory and a place in Valhalla. You'll also get to work with two Hidden Ones, Hytham and Basim - the latter of whom is the central character in the upcoming Assassin's Creed Mirage - and uncover a conspiracy woven throughout the warring English lords.

Whether you're ransacking forts along the coasts, assassinating an enemy, helping villagers unravel a mystery, or helping a boy wash his smelly father, Assassin's Creed Valhalla is full of adventures. Plus, your decisions in the game will affect your relationships with other in-game characters (most notably Sigurd, Eivor's adoptive brother), and this adds an element of gravitas to any given scenario. Be careful what you choose to do if you want to keep the peace - though romancing Randvi, Sigurd's wife, might be worth any familial strain.

Your adventures aren't limited to the frozen world of Norway or the green English hills - through the local clan witch Valka, you'll be able to become Odin, King of Asgard, and play through several classic tales out of Norse mythology (albeit with an Assassin's Creed twist). In the Dawn of Ragnarök expansion, available as part of the Complete Edition or as a standalone purchase, you can delve even deeper into Norse myth as Odin searches for his kidnapped son and attempts to stop an impending apocalypse.

You can play Assassin's Creed Valhalla Complete Edition today with a Ubisoft+ subscription, play the Standard Edition for free until August 14, or purchase any edition for a $5 Ubisoft Wallet reward until August 17.

Game Updates

Anno 1800 released updates for both the PC and console versions of the game, bringing a number of bug fixes.

• Fixed a New World island that had a non-buildable area (PC)

• Fixed matchmaking issue that caused desync when players with different mods joined a match (PC)

• Fixed an out-of-memory error that led to crash after loading a savegame (console)

• Expedition rewards are now being added after finishing a hard Zoo Expedition in Temperate Forest (console)

For Honor deployed patch 2.45.2, implementing two improvements to the Ocelotl fighter

• Jaguar's Tail guarantees a chained Light attack, but no longer pins or deals damage

• Adjusted weapon trajectories for Opener lights to better match weapon visuals

Brawlhalla implemented patch 7.11 on August 9, bringing Battle Pass Season 8, an ocean-themed initiative, and balances and bug fixes to the game.

• New Battle Pass brings 85 tiers of new content, a free track, weekly missions available to all players, a new Weapon set, and more

• Mako Saves the Ocean event, part of Playing for the Planet's Green Game Jam 2023, introduces the Deep Sea Sightseeing emote; all profits for this emote will go to the non-profit organization Oceana

• The Gauntlets now have a delayed window where gravity applies to the user during Gauntlets Down Light, allowing for more reliable follow-up attacks

• Mammoth Coin inventory now updates immediately after purchasing DLC Packs