Through these relationships, top-selling titles from both publishers will be available to consumers for direct rental and broadband streaming play. The service currently has 80 games available online, and consumers pay $4.95 to rent individual games in three-day increments. (Longer rental packages are also available, as are multi-game rental packages.)
Games from Ubi Soft that are available on Yahoo immediately include
Splinter Cell,
Rainbow Six,
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear Black Thorn, and
Ghost Recon.
Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc will launch by the end of this month.
From VU Games, Yahoo will distibute
Empire Earth,
Arcanum, and
SWAT 3.
Terms of the deal were not revealed.
