UPlay+ subscription lets you play every Ubisoft game on PC and Stadia

Just a few of the titles and franchises coming to Ubisoft's UPlay+ service.
Enlarge / Just a few of the titles and franchises coming to Ubisoft’s UPlay+ service.

LOS ANGELES—At its E3 press conference today, Ubisoft announced a new subscription service called UPlay+. For $14.99 a month, subscribers will be able to access every title in Ubisoft’s catalog—over 100 games—as a PC download (starting September 3) and through Google’s Stadia streaming service (starting in 2020).

That list of available games includes:

  • Upcoming releases: Watch Dogs: Legion, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, Rainbow Six Quarantine, Gods & Monsters
  • Recent games: Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Far Cry 5, Anno 1800
  • Classic Ubisoft Titles: Titles from the Far Cry and Rayman franchises, Prince of Persia, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, Beyond Good & Evil
  • Beloved PC Franchises: Heroes of Might and Magic, Silent Hunter, The Settlers, Anno

A subscription to UPlay+ will also include the “earliest available access to new games,” including beta and early access editions of upcoming titles. Additional content “such as DLCs, expansions and automatic updates” is also included as part of the package.

Players that sign up before August 15 will get free access to UPlay+ for the month of September before being signed up for the monthly service plan in October. Early subscribers will also get a Ghost Recon: Breakpoint Atmosphere Emblem and a Watch Dogs Legion Ubisoft Hat for their in-game characters.

Ubisoft’s move continues the fragmentary subscription battle playing out across the game industry. UPlay+ goes a step further than EA’s existing EA Access program, which offers a limited selection of legacy and early access titles from the company’s catalog for $30 a year. It looks more like Microsoft’s Xbox Games Pass, which offers hundreds of classic and current games on Xbox One and now Windows starting at $10 a month. Sony’s PlayStation Now service also offers downloads of many of its games alongside cloud-based streaming access to hundreds of titles for $99 a year. UPlay+ is the first publicly announced subscription service for Stadia. Google announced last week that it would sell Stadia games à la carte and offer access to a small selection of free titles with its $9.99-per-month Stadia Pro package.https://arstechnica.com/?p=1519753