While the game was originally to be published by Gathering of Developers but silently dropped from their release schedule early this year, Ubi Soft now announces that it will publish Shadowbane, the fantasy massively multiplayer role-playing game being created at Wolfpack Studios. The game is now scheduled for a release in "the first half of 2002," and "Ubi Soft’s online division will handle all back-end support for the game including network and server infrastructure, billing, customer service and in-game support." Thanks Gamedata for the tip.