Ubisoft announced today that the company was launching two green initiatives. Starting with the upcoming Shaun White Skateboarding, Ubisoft games will no longer feature paper manuals packed in with the discs. These games will now feature digital manuals accessible within the games’ menus. “That is going to provide a huge benefit to the environment, but also to the consumer; having a better gaming experience with an in-game manual,” said Rich Kubiszewski, Ubisoft’s VP of Operations, “We are forecasting this could be 6 million manuals we could eliminate, with PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, for the rest of the fiscal year. That’s about 180 tons of paper, 360 tons of wood, and about 2,300 acres of small forest.” It will be up to individual developers making the games how rich the digital manuals will be, with possible uses of interactive illustrations and video.
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