Starlink: Battle for Atlas
Denuvo compatibility patchNov 25, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsUpdated version of Denuvo for new CPUsUbisoft's giving away Starlink, Trials Rising, and Anno 1701 free on PC for today onlyDec 15, 2020 - PCGamesNDecember 19, 2020 Ubisoft has made all of its holiday freebies available in one last bundle for 24 hours only. Starlink: Battle for Atlas was a late-comer in the toys-to-life genre which had the incredible misfortune of launching after the market for games like Skylanders and Disney Infinity had already dried up. Ubisoft did what it could to mitigate that, including the release of a digital-only version that didn't require any toys to play. Now, that digital version is free on PC. You can grab Starlink: Battle for Atlas, Anno 1701, and Trials Rising for free via the Ubisoft Connect client here. The promotion is only available today - December 19 - but once you've claimed the game it will remain in your library forever. This is to end Ubisoft's Happy Holidays promotion, which offered daily free gifts to players through December 18. In addition to three games, you get some cosmetic items for Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Watch Dogs: Legion, and Hyper Scape. This is the standard digital edition of Starlink, which includes the vast majority of ships, pilots, and weapons released among the first wave of toys - which means you're getting a pile of content for free without even having to swap around little plastic pieces. Anno 1701 is a 2006 entry in the strategy game series, focused on, as the title suggests, building and maintaining a city in the 18th century. Trials Rising came out last year, and is about as good as the rest of those time-trial-based racing games, which is to say very. Not bad at all for the price of, er, nothing. Read the rest of the story... Ubi's sci-fi shooter Starlink gets its sizeable free Crimson Moon expansion next weekApr 24, 2019 - EurogamerUbisoft's entertaining open-world space shooter Starlink will be getting notably bigger next week, with the arrival of its free new Crimson Moon expansion - coming to Switch, PS4, and Xbox One on April 30th. Additionally, there's new paid DLC and a PC version due on the same day. The bulk of Starlink's new content revolves around the titular Crimson Moon, described as the "theatre of the Outlaw Games". Here, players can indulge in newly introduced vehicle racing, featuring both single-player and two-player split-screen tracks, plus wave-based battling in the Crimson Coliseum. Leaderboards will be included too, alongside custom paint jobs. Ubisoft says that Crimson Moon will also "impact the entire world of Atlas and let players engage with new faction story missions and weekly challenges", although specifics are yet to be detailed. Hopefully all this help will ease the repetition inherent in Starlink's design - because, limited mission types aside, I found the experience - with its gorgeous planetary exploration, bags of personality, and wonderfully polished arcade action - enormously entertaining. Read more Starlink: Battle for Atlas was One of Ubisoft’s Weakest Launches Ever for a New IPOct 26, 2018 - GitHypBefore the disastrous launch of No Man’s Sky two years ago, Ubisoft’s idea to join the space race and create a similar game in the genre seemed like a great idea when they began work on Starlink: Battle for Atlas.
The publisher/developer’s strategy of teaming up with Nintendo to take the NMS formula, add in iconic characters from the Star Fox franchise, and even create their own physical collectors’ items had the potential to surpass the success of Activision’s Skylanders and even Nintendo’s own Amiibos.
But after all the drama of NMS, it looks like gamers of all ages have had their fix of space exploration games for now. And Ubisoft’s weak attempt at marketing Starlink has resulted in them failing to capture the younger audience they were betting on before Fortnite exploded in popularity.
Last week’s launch of Starlink was one of Ubisoft’s worst ever for a new IP, debuting at #16 on Twitch with a peak of only 7k concurrent viewers. And over the past week, the game’s numbers have only gotten worse with literally nobody streaming or watching the game at certain hours throughout each day on Twitch.
Such little interest in a new franchise is certainly not what Ubisoft was hoping for with Starlink, especially not after their recent successful launch of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey that broke records and had over 100k concurrent viewers on Twitch earlier this month.
Although not technically a first-party Nintendo game, Ubisoft’s new take on Fox and friends came nowhere close to topping the recent successful launches of other new Nintendo Switch games such as Super Mario Party (52k viewers), Mario Tennis Aces (56k viewers), or even Ubisoft’s previous collaboration with Nintendo, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (46k viewers).
Sales for Starlink are also being reported as underwhelming, matching the lower viewer counts with the game debuting at #14 on the UK entertainment software charts. And while Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (508k viewers) took the #1 spot again, it was actually the week’s other new release, Lego DC Super-Villains, that proved to be Starlink’s biggest competition.
Launching on the same day as Starlink and geared towards the same younger player base, the latest Lego game debuted at #6 on the UK charts. Mirroring the sales, viewer counts for WB's DC game nearly doubled Starlink with a peak of 13k concurrent viewers on Twitch.
With generally favorable reviews, Ubisoft’s poor marketing of Starlink: Battle for Atlas can be blamed for its failed attempt to capture the attention of gamers. None of Twitch’s top streamers were willing to give the game a chance, which is surprising, considering that most are gamers who grew up playing Star Fox and the revival of the beloved character should have been an easy win for Ubisoft.
Such little interest in a new franchise is certainly not what Ubisoft was hoping for with Starlink, especially not after their recent successful launch of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey that broke records and had over 100k concurrent viewers on Twitch earlier this month.
Although not technically a first-party Nintendo game, Ubisoft’s new take on Fox and friends came nowhere close to topping the recent successful launches of other new Nintendo Switch games such as Super Mario Party (52k viewers), Mario Tennis Aces (56k viewers), or even Ubisoft’s previous collaboration with Nintendo, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (46k viewers).
Sales for Starlink are also being reported as underwhelming, matching the lower viewer counts with the game debuting at #14 on the UK entertainment software charts. And while Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (508k viewers) took the #1 spot again, it was actually the week’s other new release, Lego DC Super-Villains, that proved to be Starlink’s biggest competition.
Launching on the same day as Starlink and geared towards the same younger player base, the latest Lego game debuted at #6 on the UK charts. Mirroring the sales, viewer counts for WB's DC game nearly doubled Starlink with a peak of 13k concurrent viewers on Twitch.
With generally favorable reviews, Ubisoft’s poor marketing of Starlink: Battle for Atlas can be blamed for its failed attempt to capture the attention of gamers. None of Twitch’s top streamers were willing to give the game a chance, which is surprising, considering that most are gamers who grew up playing Star Fox and the revival of the beloved character should have been an easy win for Ubisoft.
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