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New Assassin's Creed Game to Be Detailed Soon

The next installment in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise is set to receive its first official details in the "next few months," at least according to art director Mohamed Gambouz. The Assassin's Creed series has been growing exponentially with the last two releases, Assassin's Creed 2 and B...

8 April 2011
04:20 GMT

Bulletstorm Caught Up in Always Connected DRM Controversy

A phrase included in the End User License Agreement of the upcoming first-person shooter Bulletstorm suggested that the game would require the player to be always connected to the Internet while playing it, but developers have offered a rebuttal, saying that the language was a mistake. Gamers found that the licens...

1 February 2011
16:41 GMT

Ubisoft DRM No Longer Requires Always-On Internet Connection

Two recent games from French company Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction, have seen a decrease in the security measures of the company's strict DRM software system, which ensured that the copy of the game was genuine on the PC. According to reports from around the web, players no lo...

3 January 2011
15:51 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Barely has a year passed since Assassin's Creed 2 was released by Ubisoft, and the French company is at it again, with the release of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, despite rumors that an all-new title would appear, starring new heroes in a different time frame. Instead, the company is continuing the sto...

26 November 2010
08:11 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Diary - It Really Is a Huge Game

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has just been launched by Ubisoft, after being developed by Ubisoft Montreal, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and will appear next year for the PC platform.Back when Brotherhood was officially announced by Ubisoft, the previous game, Assassin's Creed 2, was still fresh news...

26 November 2010
07:01 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Diary - Leonardo's Missions and Forced Stealth

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has just been launched by Ubisoft, after being developed by Ubisoft Montreal, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and will appear next year for the PC platform.We already talked about how Brotherhood isn't just Assassin's Creed 2.5 yesterday, and now we're going into ...

24 November 2010
07:00 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Diary - Why It's Not Assassin's Creed 2.5

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has just been launched by Ubisoft around the world, after being developed by the Ubisoft Montreal team.The game has been launched just a year after the release of the previous Assassin's Creed 2, so lots of people started speculating, before its release, that it would just be a...

23 November 2010
09:30 GMT

Quick Look: Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has just been released by Ubisoft, and is the next chapter in the company's extremely successful franchise.Promising to continue the story of Assassin's Creed 2's Ezio Auditore da Firenze, introduce new features as well as an all-new multiplayer mode, Brotherhood is s...

22 November 2010
04:37 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood DLC Will Be Better, Ubisoft Promises

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has just been released around the world, and already Ubisoft is promising that the downloadable content received by the game will be much better than the two add-ons received by the previous game, Assassin's Creed 2.According to the producer of the game, Vincent Pontbriand, Bro...

22 November 2010
02:59 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Is a Huge Game, Not A Rushed Sequel

Ubisoft's next big title, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, isn't just a rushed sequel but a huge title that will change the franchise forever, according to Brotherhood's lead game designer, Steve Masters.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is the sequel to last year's extremely successful Assass...

16 November 2010
03:06 GMT

Ubisoft Sees Bigger Sales Thanks to Splinter Cell

Ubisoft is estimating that first quarter sales for its video game line up have reached 160 million Euro in the first fiscal quarter of this year, which is quite a big increase over the same period of last year. The company is saying that the increase amounts to 93% and that the figures it has posted are better than t...

13 July 2010
03:49 GMT

Analyst: Ubisoft Is Right to Use Its Current DRM Software

In his latest GameTrailers show, analyst Michael Pachter said he supported Ubisoft's decision to implement an always online DRM component into its PC game. “I’m an old guy. I’m ethical and I’m a lawyer by trade. I feel if you steal a copy of a game by copying a friend’s file then it...

31 May 2010
14:01 GMT

One Hour With: Assassin's Creed II

16:00. Assassin's Creed II is supposed to make right all the misgivings of the original. Ubisoft promises more exploration, smoother combat and plot advancements. I am playing the PlayStation 3 version of the game.16:01. So, it all begins with a quick recap of the events of the first game. The montage might have...

14 January 2010
18:01 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Glued to Number One

Videogame releases have come and gone and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 from Infinity Ward and Activision seems to be impossible to budge from the top spot in the United Kingdom videogaming chart. Some are looking to the release of Mass Effect 2, the space-based role playing experience from BioWare and Electronic Ar...

7 January 2010
13:21 GMT

Another Week on Top for Modern Warfare 2

Modern Warfare 2 seems to be cementing its status as the best selling videogame of 2009. After coming on top in the software charts released by the NPD Group for November in the United States, where it managed to sell more than 6 million copies on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, the shooter from Infinity Ward and...

17 December 2009
13:01 GMT

EndWeekGame: December 11

Totu Florian: Last weekend ended up being a complete mess. I played pretty much everything I had that still held a little bit of interest for me. Some games caught my attention for just a few hours, while one demon of the past made a far more unexpected comeback. While I still toyed around a little bit in Divinity 2:...

11 December 2009
16:01 GMT

NPD Software: Modern Warfare 2 Takes the Top Two Places

Modern Warfare 2, as predicted, has dominated the software sales for the month of November in the United States, managing to move more copies than any other launch on the Microsoft made Xbox 360. Surprisingly, the game also managed to take the second place in the software chart with the PlayStation 3 version. The PC ...

11 December 2009
15:51 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Gets One Month on Top

Modern Warfare 2, the first person shooter developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, has managed to top the videogame chart in the United Kingdom for a fourth week in a row, establishing a pretty serious claim to being the biggest videogaming release of 2009 and it will probably continue to dominate the...

10 December 2009
13:21 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Again on Top

With the biggest releases of this videogaming year all out, it's time to look at the various charts that come out and try to estimate which game will be the biggest seller of 2009. The biggest hint will arrive when the NPD Group numbers for November come out towards the middle of the month but until then, a snea...

3 December 2009
04:23 GMT

Modern Warfare On Top for a Second Week

The biggest entertainment release of all time is not allowing itself to drop out of the top videogames chart in the United Kingdom. For the second week in a row Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, created by Infinity Ward and published by Activsion, managed to hold on to number one even as some pretty impressive titles w...

25 November 2009
13:31 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 on Top in the United Kingdom

As expected, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 from Infinity Ward and Activision has taken the top spot in the United Kingdom videogame chart and it will probably hang around for some time as players get to experience the content offered by the sequel and as millions of multiplayer matches are played. The biggest upcomi...

19 November 2009
13:31 GMT

Assassin's Creed 2 Minigames Are Revealed by the ESRB

There hasn't been an official organization dedicated to game spoilers, but the ESRB is doing the best job it can. Some of the things it spoils are in our advantage, while others are a real kick in the shin. Every time a new game enters the initial stages of production, it gets registered with the ESRB and pretty...

11 November 2009
16:31 GMT

Assassin's Creed 2 May Have Tried to Slay Freedom of Speech

The German magazine Computer Bild Spiele has a bit of a scandal on its December cover. Apparently, Ubisoft might have tried some strong-arm tactics regarding Assassin's Creed 2's review score. The big “Assassin's Creed 2 SKANDAL!” denounced by the magazine's December title would be a b...

9 November 2009
04:13 GMT

With a 52-Percent Drop in Revenues, Ubisoft Still Has Huge Expectations for This Season

Ubisoft got hit hard in the sales department over its first fiscal quarter of 2009. Its sales went down 51 percent compared with last year, and, even though the entire industry saw a fell in product sales, Ubisoft has its own fault in the matter. With only one major release in the time frame, the company couldn'...

5 November 2009
08:31 GMT

Analysts: Modern Warfare 2 Will Only Drive Modest Growth

The videogames industry grew, by only a small margin, in September mainly on the strength of the price reductions for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 and with strong help from the sales of Halo 3: ODST. But most analysts believe that the rebound is not something set to last.Doug Creutz, who is an analyst for the C...

21 October 2009
17:21 GMT

A Gamer's Week: September 28 - October 4

If you plan to read about videogames this Sunday, then this is the place for you. Apart from the Weekend Reading feature that focuses on the cross between Batman, collectibles and obsessive behavior, there are some pieces that deserve your attention.On Monday, Sony revealed that it was still looking around for a catc...

4 October 2009
10:51 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Is the Most Wanted Videogame

With Halo 3: ODST now out, it seems that Modern Warfare 2 from Activision and Infinity Ward is the videogame that players are most interested in picking up in the coming period, at least according to the GamePlan Insights study conducted by OTX, whose aim was to compile a list of the most attractive titles to be rele...

1 October 2009
16:21 GMT

Halo 3: ODST Fans Also Interested in Modern Warfare 2

A new study offered by OTX through its GamePlan Insights service shows that a lot of those players who have picked up the new Halo 3: ODST are also set to buy Modern Warfare 2 when the title is released on November 10. This is good news for Microsoft and Activision and might prove to be pretty bad news for other publ...

22 September 2009
18:31 GMT

More Big Games Will Be Delayed to Late 2010

Take a look at the following list of high-profile video games: Massive Action Game, Singularity, Mafia II, Red Dead Remeption, Bayonetta, Dark Void, Super Mario Galaxy and the blockbusters BioShock 2, Starcraft II, Mafia II. They were all titles that were set to arrive in the last quarter of 2009, making the year one...

21 September 2009
04:11 GMT

Jade Raymond to Head Ubisoft Toronto Studio

Ubisoft has announced that Jade Raymond, who has served as the public face of the Assassin's Creed project, has been chosen to head the newly opened Toronto studio.The producer is set to report directly to Yannis Mallat, who is also overseeing the Montreal studio of the French publisher. The new development stud...

2 September 2009
08:03 GMT

Halo 3: ODST Most Wanted Videogame

Halo 3: ODST continues to be the videogame that most players are interested in picking up once it is released, according to new data provided by OTX through its GamePlan Insights program to consumer site Gamasutra. Still, its lead over Modern Warfare 2 from Activision seems to be shrinking, while Assassin's Cree...

26 August 2009
14:41 GMT

Beyond Good & Evil 2 Development Might Be on Hold

GamesCom was a delight for most gamers but it seems that at least one group of fans might be a bit sad following the convention. Colin Solal Cardo, who works for consumer site Gamesyde, has tweeted that “I got confirmation at Cologne's Gamescom that Beyond Good & Evil 2 is on hold for now. No idea if it�...

25 August 2009
04:42 GMT

Assassin's Creed 2 Gets Limited Edition

Assassin's Creed 2 is one of the big releases of this fall not pushed back into 2010 and Ubisoft seems to be ready to respect the original release date of November 17. The latest proof is its having released, via the Twitter feed for the game, details related to a Limited Edition version of the videogame, which ...

5 August 2009
05:35 GMT

Ubisoft Teases New Assassin's Creed in 2010

Assassin's Creed was one of the biggest titles of 2007, having managed to reveal to players a rich and complex world where assassins and thieves could keep the world order and prevent anyone from obtaining too much power. With the first title having registered decent sales and gained a big fan base, Ubisoft dec...

31 July 2009
15:01 GMT

Ubisoft Blames Piracy for Falling Profits

Ubisoft has put out financial data showing that the French-based publisher has seen a fall of 51% in sales, missing its proposed targets by 12%. The company only managed to sell 113.71 million dollars worth of games in the first quarter of the fiscal year, which ended on June 30.The overall poor state of the videogam...

28 July 2009
04:33 GMT

Assassin's Creed 2 Will Be Longer than the First

Assassin's Creed was one of 2007's most appealing titles, as it brought forth an extremely interesting premise: you were an ancient assassin during the peak of the Crusades in the 1100s. But even though it was extremely innovative and offered an adventure much longer than average games, you didn't have...

10 July 2009
02:44 GMT

Assassin's Creed 2 Designer Talks About Swimming

Assassin's Creed was one of 2007's most interesting titles, telling the story of master Assassin Altair, a man who single-handedly shaped how the 1100s Crusades were fought and for whom nothing could stand in the way. That is, except water, as, when Altair fell in it, he would immediately drown, prompting u...

6 July 2009
02:40 GMT

Pre-Order Assassin's Creed 2 to Get Exclusive Medici Palace

Ubisoft, which is developing and planning to publish Assassin's Creed 2, has announced having entered into an exclusive agreement with GameStop for a special pre-order offer related to the upcoming title.Those gamers who place a pre-order with the retail chain will get a new in game area, which aims to faithfull...

24 June 2009
05:40 GMT

Assassin's Creed 2 Will Feature a Varied Gameplay

Assassin's Creed was one of 2007's most interesting titles, as it introduced some very interesting gameplay mechanics and placed an emphasis on exploring and knowing everything before you attempted an assassination during the Crusades of the 1100s. But sadly the game was quite repetitive, as the main chara...

12 June 2009
02:41 GMT

Ubisoft Posts Declining Profits

Ubisoft, the France-based publisher, announced that it obtained profits of 95.78 million dollars for the fiscal year that ended on March 31. The good news is that profit was registered but the bad news is that there's a drop of 37% in its value. Sales actually went up for the same period by about 14%, reaching 1...

28 May 2009
12:41 GMT

Release Dates for Tekken 6, BioShock 2 and Assassins' Creed 2 Revealed

It's nice to know that although the videogames industry is geared towards secrecy, concerning release dates, title information, new developments, future consoles, there are times when secrets slip out via the most mundane documents and events. For example, David W. Carlson, one of the executives working for Game...

27 May 2009
04:43 GMT

Assassin's Creed 2 Has 450 People Working on It

Assassin's Creed was one of the most intriguing games to appear in the last few years, largely because it was host to a lot of new concepts and gameplay mechanics that, even though they were a bit repetitive, were welcomed with open arms by gamers and critics alike. Now, with the sequel gearing up for its relea...

21 May 2009
02:44 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII Is the Most Wanted Game for the PlayStation 3

The biggest announcement at the 2008 edition of the E3 trade show was that Microsoft had persuaded Square Enix to also bring Final Fantasy XIII to the Xbox 360. But the Japanese role playing game is still more interesting to those who plan to play it on the PlayStation 3, according to data compiled by research group ...

6 May 2009
17:41 GMT

Ubisoft Unveils Good Financial Results

Ubisoft has officially presented its financial results for the fourth quarter of the 2008 financial year and for the full year and they look pretty good, despite a drop of about 5 % in the final months of the year. Year over year the sales increased by a whooping 14%, with the overall value reaching 1.5 billion dolla...

30 April 2009
14:11 GMT

Assassin's Creed 2 Dated for Holiday 2009, New Trailer Included

Assassin's Creed was one of the most innovative games of 2007, showcasing a unique type of stealth gameplay in which you played an ancient assassin during the Crusades at the beginning of the 1100s in the Middle East. But, sadly, what it gained with scenery and innovation it lost with the repetitive missions and...

17 April 2009
15:21 GMT

A Gamer's Week: 4 – 11 April

Since it's the week that follows the Game Developers Conference, some of the headlines came out of that meeting of minds, while others were completely unexpected or unannounced, like the new site for Assassin's Creed 2. Take a look at the most interesting stories of this week.On Monday, we spotted a trailer...

11 April 2009
08:51 GMT

Here Are the Full Details on Assassin's Creed 2

Assassin's Creed was one of the most original games of 2007, since it introduced some brand new things to stealth gameplay, as you played an assassin during the Crusades at the beginning of the second millennium. It won critical acclaim, but sadly disappointed a lot of gamers because the mechanics were extremely...

10 April 2009
13:31 GMT

Assassin's Creed 2 Teasing Begins, Announcement Due Next Week

Assassin's Creed was one of the most hyped up titles of 2007, as it promised to reveal a historical world, during the time of the Crusades, in which the player would be an assassin that had to carry out their missions through the shadows.It introduced a lot of new mechanics to games, but sadly, became very repet...

7 April 2009
03:37 GMT

Rumor Mill: Assassin's Creed 2 Takes Place in Venice

Assassin's Creed was one of the most innovative games of 2007, giving players a truly innovative freedom to move and to interact with other characters. In it, you played an assassin named Altair during one of the many crusades waged in the Middle East. Through ways traditional to killers and thieves you needed t...

27 February 2009
15:21 GMT

Ubisoft Announces New Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon

We live in some very tough times and the recession is making game development very hard. After a lot of big names in the industry have begun to take some drastic cost-cutting measures and laid off quite a big part of their staff, it seems that great games won't appear anytime soon. But Ubisoft isn't worried...

23 January 2009
03:25 GMT


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