At Gamescom this year, Ubisoft announced a strategic partnership with Nvidia – which means that the French company’s PC games will look better on hardware bearing the green-and-black Nvidia logo.
It’s a bit of an unusual move, considering that the next generation consoles run AMD hardware, making it possibly easier to optimise for the Canadian chip-maker’s tech.
Joining Splinter Cell :Blacklist and Assassin’s Creed Iv as the first games to get extra Nvidia love is open-world stealthy hacker Watch Dogs, which will be played the way it’s meant to be on Nvidia systems. It, like other Ubisoft games will be “enhanced with PC-exclusive effects and features.”
Neither Ubisoft or Nvidia have said just what those features will be, but they’ve promised to be a little more forthcoming “in the coming months.”
Watch Dogs is coming to on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U and Windows PC on Nov. 22 with Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions available after each console becomes available.
[Thanks to EK who needs a PK for the tip]Last Updated: August 27, 2013
Alien Emperor Trevor
August 27, 2013 at 14:09
Bleh, now they’re resorting to bribery to get people to use Nvidia cards trollol #foreverAMD
Admiral Chief Raider of Tombs
August 27, 2013 at 14:09
LULZ, I actually choon Geoff the link, now he trolllll me
Admiral Chief Raider of Tombs
August 27, 2013 at 14:09
I raise your PK with a RVPK
FoxOneZA - X-Therminator
August 27, 2013 at 15:07
RVP. First you trolling Nvidia and now football!
Admiral Chief Raider of Tombs
August 27, 2013 at 15:20
RVPK is not a bloorie soccer player
Kromas
August 27, 2013 at 14:56
Oh dear. I thought Ubisoft was done with bad ideas after StarForce and Uplay but I suppose at least they never stop surprising me.
FoxOneZA - X-Therminator
August 27, 2013 at 15:08
Consoles haven’t even launched yet and the master race is extending it’s lead.
OVG
August 27, 2013 at 15:34
Does it make his hair flow in the wind? If his hair does not flow in the wind then the game sucks. I want his hair to flow like a Timotei advert 😛
Alien Emperor Trevor
August 27, 2013 at 15:44
TressFX is AMD 😉
OVG
August 27, 2013 at 15:46
lol
OVG
August 27, 2013 at 15:47
I WAND NVIDIA EYE LASHES
Brian Murphy
August 27, 2013 at 22:25
Buy this OVG:
CPU – Intel Core i7 3970X – R10207.20
Mobo – Asus Rampage IV Extreme – R4389.10
RAM – 64g Corsair Dominator Platinum – R12248.64
GPU – 4x EVGA GeForce GTX Titan Hydro Copper – R47769.70
SSD – 2x Samsung 840 Pro – R10207.20
SSD – 2x Crucial M500 – R12248.64
HDD – 3x WD Caviar Black (4TB/ea) – R9186.48
ODD – Pioneer BDR-208DBK – R714.50
Cooling – Custom Liquid Cooling – R10207.20
PSU – LEPA G1600-MA – R3368.38
Case – Corsair 900D – R3572.52
Paint – Smooth Creations – R4082.88
OS – Windows 8 Professional – R1020.72
Monitor – Asus PQ321 – R38787.36
Mouse – Steel Series Sensei – R765.54
Keyboard – IBM Model M – R510.36
That’ll make the hair flow!
OVG
August 28, 2013 at 08:59
DAFUQ?
That will make my bum hair flow like the Golden Fleece.
Brian Murphy
August 28, 2013 at 14:19
*grin*
Brady miaau
August 27, 2013 at 15:38
I was expecting like, you know, eye candy.
brumljw
April 28, 2014 at 13:25
f*** that, 2 x 290x with my old 650ti running PhysX dedicated. plus, this is not the first. PhysX has been doing this in games for years, giving it added effects, its one of the main reasons people buy them.