Ubisoft has revealed plans to shift the hosting of many online services from a third-party data centre to a new facility.

Beginning February 7, the online components of Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell Conviction and The Settlers on the Macintosh platform will be temporarily unavailable. Likewise, H.A.W.X. 2, Might & Magic: Heroes VI, and The Settlers 7 on PC will be similarly disrupted. Offline play is not affected.

In addition, all Ubisoft websites will be impacted with the exception of the Ubisoft official forums and Ubisoft Consumer Service facilities.

Ubisoft has stated that the transition will ultimately "...help us improve the maintenance of our infrastructure and deliver better uptime and greatly improved services for our customers."