The Crew Unlimited will revive The Crew from Ubisoft with a custom server emulator

By Liam Dawe - 3 Sep 2025 at 10:05 am UTC

Doing what Ubisoft don't want to do, the community is reviving the classic racing game The Crew with The Crew Unlimited (TCU) project that's releasing soon. Their team have a fresh website with an announcement that the custom server emulator will be releasing September 15th.

The Crew is part of what spurred on the whole Stop Killing Games movement, which went onto reach some impressive milestones. It also seemingly made Ubisoft take at least a bit of notice, as they announced offline modes were planned for The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorsport.

Sadly, the main trouble with this will be how it's only going to be usable for those who actually still have a copy of The Crew, since it's been shut down officially by Ubisoft and so you can no longer buy it. Great news for those who do have it though, a nice win for preservation - unless Ubisoft attempt to shut it down which wouldn't be surprising if they do.

From what the community developers explained their server emulator will offer both offline and online support, along with having its own launcher.

You can see their latest video on it below:

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See more on The Crew Unlimited website.

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Tags: Proton, Misc, Racing, Ubisoft, Wine

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tfk 4 hours ago

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Ah. The community comes to the rescue again! This kind of thing is also done in the PS3 community. These devs analyze the network packages and reverse engineer the protocols used by the game.

I believe one of these projects is called psone? You have to ask for access when using an emulator but that is not required when playing on original hardware.

All you have to do is enter an alternative dns server address. This leads the game to their server instead of the original.

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Solitary 3 hours ago

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Well, if it's not sold then it's abandonware... just download a copy for free from the internet.

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dubigrasu 2 hours ago

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It was given for free several times, even I have it on UbiConnect/whatever is called.

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