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This morning, Ubisoft sent out a press release detailing a few financial details for this quarter.

Compared to last year’s first quarter, Ubisoft is doing a lot better, making €160 million this quarter compared to the €83 million from the 2009-2010 fiscal year’s first quarter. That’s a 93% increase! This is almost entirely due to the release of Splinter Cell: Conviction, as well as continued sales from back catalog titles like Assassin’s Creed 2 and Just Dance (people still love to dance with their Wiis, apparently).

For the next quarter, what do you have to look forward to? Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X., for one, and World War II RTS title R.U.S.E.

Unfortunately, not all the news is good in the land of Ubi: The latest edition of the “Driver” franchise has been delayed to the fourth quarter (after the holiday season). Ubisoft cited a “competitive market” at Christmas as the reason for the move. That’s not really having a lot of faith in your product, is it?

In any case, the game will likely see release around February 2011 now.

Vintage Mario “Puppet Kooler.” Part Thermos, part abomination. I like imagining the collaboration between artists and engineers that resulted in this.

Mario is just one of the Puppet Kooler Company’s somewhat horrifying, fabric leg-dangling drink containers. ’80s icons like Hulk Hogan and Michael Jackson were also immortalized in canister form.

[Via GameSniped]

Baseball fans –

Do you think you have what it takes to strike out the reigning American League MVP? Well, this Monday, July 12, you can give it try on the virtual diamond. We’ll be at MLB FanFest in Anaheim for the All-Star Game festivities with MLB 10 The Show cover athlete, Joe Mauer, giving select fans a chance to play against Major League Baseball’s leading All-Star vote-getter on PlayStation 3. We’ll also be showing our MLB 10 The Show 3D demo, so for those of you haven’t seen yet, come by and check it out. FanFest begins today and goes through Tuesday. For tickets, times, and additional info about FanFest, go to MLB.com and join the All-Star party.

Here are the details about the event with Joe, hope to see you there!

When:
Monday, July 12
9:00 – 10:00am PST

Where:
PlayStation Patrol Truck at MLB FanFest (Area B, all the way in the back)
Anaheim Convention Center
800 West Katella Avenue
Anaheim, CA 92802-3496

One of the things that made Dragon Age: Origins so great was the amount of choice you had when building your character. Depending on which race and class you chose, you would see different plot options, which kept you wanting to find out more. In Dragon Age II however, Bioware has chosen to go the [...]

If you were wanting to know what happened to Isaac Clarke before Dead Space 2 (out in 2011), you’re in luck. A prequel by the name of Dead Space Ignition promises to fill in the gaps this fall.

The downloadable title will take place on the Sprawl, and you’ll be tasked with surviving the initial Necromorph outbreak (since Isaac does survive, after all). The unique comic style (written by noted comic author Antony Johnston, who was responsible for the six-book Dead Space comic series), combined with a “Choose Your Own Adventure” narrative, should introduce the series to gamers who would never have picked up the original game just in time for 2011’s Dead Space 2 release.

The game will offer multiple endings as well as unlocks that can be used in Dead Space 2.

The game will be available on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace, as well as the PlayStation Store.