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Ubisoft Continues Green Gaming Push

By pete_gallagher

Ubisoft is introducing a pair new initiatives for packaged games that will cut down on waste and improve the company's green factor.

First, the company will eliminate the process of packaging paper game manuals in with their games, a move that would save about 180 tons of paper per year, or 2,300 acres of small forest, reports FastCompany. Manuals will go the digital route and will be able to be accessed through a game's menu, which, in turn, will open up the design to become more interactive, as, "It will be up to individual developers making the games how rich the digital manuals will be."

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on April 19, 2010 (boomark / email).