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Day-One PS3 Assassin's Creed: Revelations Copies Include Original Assassin's Creed

Ubisoft and Sony have announced that day-one copies of the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations on the PlayStation 3 will include the original Assassin's Creed game free of charge.Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise has become extremely important in recent years, as after a shaky start, it'...

20 September 2011
15:51 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Revelations Will Answer 7 out of 10 Fan Questions

The developers working on Assassin's Creed: Revelations, the latest entry in the Ubisoft made mix between open world action and mystery, have made it clear that they are planning to shed some light on the questions players have about the franchise, without giving everything away.Of course, a fair number of ...

29 August 2011
05:46 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Revelations Gets Ultimate Bundle, Animus Edition Trailer

Ubisoft is offering a variety of special editions of its upcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations game, seemingly trying to attract customers into paying a bit more money to get extra content for the much-anticipated game. Now, GameStop has revealed yet another special edition of the game, in the form of the As...

29 August 2011
03:55 GMT

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Multiplayer Beta Exclusive to PlayStation 3

Ubisoft has announced that a special multiplayer beta stage will be held for its upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Revelations title next month, exclusively on the PlayStation 3 console, for now at least.Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is set to be one of the biggest games released by Ubisoft this year, promising ...

11 August 2011
17:11 GMT

85 Percent of Assassin's Creed Lore Is Already Mapped Out

Assassin's Creed: Revelations is already slated for launch on November 15, but one of the leading developers working on the series from Ubisoft has said that there's more universe lore to be delivered to players although 85 percent of the game story has already been mapped out. Speaking to the Xbox World M...

3 August 2011
05:46 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Revelations Special Editions Confirmed

The first details about the special editions of Assassin's Creed: Revelations have appeared, with large retailers depicting the contents of the adequately named Special Edition, the Collector's Edition and the ultimate Animus Edition. Ubisoft announced Assassin's Creed: Revelations, the next install...

28 July 2011
04:00 GMT

Ubisoft Wants Assassin's Creed and Other Franchises on Tablets

Large French publisher Ubisoft has confessed its desire to see many of the big franchises it owns appear on all sorts of devices, not just consoles or the PC, but also on tablets like the Apple iPad or the many other such platforms that are currently being released. Ubisoft has a quite a large stable of franchises...

22 July 2011
02:40 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Revelations Is All About Ezio and Altair

The upcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations, the new game in the series from Ubisoft, won't answer every question about its main protagonist Desmond, as it will mostly focus on Altair and Ezio, two of his ancestors which starred in the first and the last two games, respectively. Ubisoft's Assassin�...

19 July 2011
04:15 GMT

Ubisoft Announces Toys Based on Assassin's Creed, Might & Magic, Ghost Recon

French video game publisher Ubisoft has announced that it is creating a collection of merchandise based around its video game universes called UbiCollectibles, which will allow fans to pick up items based upon well-known franchises like Ghost Recon, Assassin's Creed, Might & Magic and more. At the moment, the...

6 July 2011
13:41 GMT

E3 2011: Assassin's Creed: Revelations Gets Release Date, Gameplay Video

After presenting the stunning cinematic trailer for Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Ubisoft, the game's publisher, has now showcased a more impressive gameplay video, and even confirmed the release date of the upcoming title. Ubisoft is getting ready to once more release an Assassin's Creed game at t...

9 June 2011
14:01 GMT

E3 2011: Assassin's Creed: Revelations Gets Complete Trailer

Ubisoft, during its E3 2011 conference, presented the full trailer for its upcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations title, showcasing the protagonist of the game, Ezio Auditore, and how he interacts with his ancestor and hero of the very first Assassin's Creed game, Altair. Ubisoft presented the new Revela...

7 June 2011
09:00 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Revelations Gets Teaser Trailer, Fresh Screenshots

Assassin's Creed: Revelations has just received some fresh details from its developer and publisher, Ubisoft, as well as some new screenshots and a teaser trailer that hints at a bigger video appearing at next month's E3 conference. Ubisoft is keen on raising the hype around its next installment in the A...

27 May 2011
17:21 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Revelations Gets Location Details

After the massive announcement at the beginning of the month, Ubisoft is now detailing Assassin's Creed: Revelations, more specifically the locations that the main character, Ezio Auditore will visit. Assassin's Creed: Revelations is set to be one of the biggest titles of the end of the year, so Ubisoft, i...

24 May 2011
03:50 GMT

Ubisoft Working on Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon and Assassin's Creed Movies

Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the branch of the French video game publisher that is focused on creating movies out of its intellectual property, has announced that it was already working on full-fledged live action movies, using the popular new three-dimensional shooting process, based on series like Splinter Cell, Ghost ...

17 May 2011
14:51 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Revelations to Answer Many Questions, Ubisoft Says

The next installment in Ubisoft's massively successful Assassin's Creed franchise, the recently announced Revelations, has received a few more details from the creative director of the series, Alexandre Amancio, who said that the game is going to live up to its name.Assassin's Creed: Revelations has ju...

12 May 2011
18:01 GMT

First Assassin's Creed: Revelations Details Appear

After being officially revealed at the end of last week, Assassin's Creed: Revelations has now received its first batch of details about story, gameplay and how it will fit into the wider Assassin's Creed narrative. Ubisoft announced Revelations with the bare minimum of details, limiting itself to saying...

9 May 2011
05:10 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Revelations Officially Announced, Playable at E3

Ubisoft has just revealed the next game in its Assassin's Creed franchise, called Assassin's Creed: Revelations, which will be released this November and playable at next month's E3 conference. The Assassin's Creed franchise is definitely one of Ubisoft's most important series, managing to...

6 May 2011
12:21 GMT

Next Assassin's Creed Game Teased on Facebook

Ubisoft has decided that, in order to raise hype around the upcoming reveal of its next Assassin's Creed game, a teaser campaign on Facebook is just the right thing, as is coupling it with an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) in which fans must figure out clues in order to unlock information about the game. Ubisof...

3 May 2011
18:01 GMT

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

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Gets ‘Da Vinci Edition’

Ubisoft has just revealed Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood The Da Vinci Edition for consoles, which bundles together all of the single-player and multiplayer downloadable content released for the game. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, since its launch back in November of last year, has sold an impressive amou...

4 March 2011
02:55 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Gets PC Specs, Ditches DRM System

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood on the PC has finally received some concrete details, including information about its multiple special editions as well as the minimum and recommended PC requirements. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, after selling more than 6.5 million copies on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360...

23 February 2011
03:40 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Gets New Single-Player DLC

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood will receive a brand new add-on, in the form of the Da Vinci Disappearance, which brings new single-player and multiplayer features to the extremely popular title. Ubisoft revealed, at the beginning of the week, that its Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood game sold over 6.5 milli...

18 February 2011
17:21 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Out for the PC in March

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood for the PC, after a lengthy period of uncertainty, has finally received a concrete release date, as a Ubisoft forum manager confirmed that it's going to be released next month.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has been a phenomenal success on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 for...

16 February 2011
03:40 GMT

Assassin's Creed and Just Dance Power Ubisoft to Profit

France-based video-game publisher Ubisoft has announced that it has posted better than expected financial results for the third calendar quarter of 2010, with the performance fueled by the strong sales enjoyed by both Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and the Just Dance series. Sales for the quarter which ended on ...

15 February 2011
16:31 GMT

New Assassin's Creed Game Gets Detailed in May

During Ubisoft's financial results conference, its CEO, Yves Guillemot, confirmed that the company is going to release a brand new Assassin's Creed game this year, and that more details will be available in May. Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise has been growing by leaps and bounds these las...

15 February 2011
15:51 GMT

Assassin's Creed Might Become More Social in the Future

Jade Raymond, one of the producers working on the first Assassin's Creed video game and now the leader of the Toronto-based studio for publisher Ubisoft, believes that the video game industry needs to embrace social gaming and find ways to integrate interactions in all the products it launches, with Assassin Cre...

14 February 2011
13:51 GMT

Dead Space 2 Survives at the Top of the United Kingdom Chart

Dead Space 2, the action-packed third-person shooter from developer Visceral and publisher Electronic Arts, has managed to retain its number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart, fending off a determined challenge from FIFA 11, coming from the same company but a different division. FIFA 11 was in th...

9 February 2011
04:20 GMT

Dead Space 2 Scares Its Way to the Top in United Kingdom

Dead Space 2, the space-based third-person shooter from developer Visceral and publisher Electronic Arts, has managed to take the first position in the United Kingdom video game chart, demonstrating that a solid and innovative sequel has the ability to outperform the original on which it was based. Dead Space 2 is...

3 February 2011
13:31 GMT

Ubisoft Wants Kinect Versions for All of Its Franchises

Large French games publisher Ubisoft has just confirmed that it wants to launch Kinect versions of all of its franchises, including the likes of Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell or Prince of Persia. Ubisoft is rapidly becoming one of the biggest games publishers in the world, thanks to its rich and varied fran...

3 February 2011
02:40 GMT

Assassin's Creed Franchise Won't Be Damaged by Yearly Sequels

The quality of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise won't be hurt by the yearly iterations the French company has planned for it, at least according to Ubisoft's UK marketing boss Murray Pannell. The original Assassin's Creed appeared back in 2007, but, seeing as how 2009's Assassin&#...

26 January 2011
15:51 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Second Free DLC Out Now

The second free DLC for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the Animus Project Update 2.0, is now available for download on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is among the most successful hardcore games released by Ubisoft at the end of last year, managing to become the faste...

19 January 2011
15:51 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Multiplayer Issues on Xbox 360 Are Now Fixed

The recent multiplayer issues encountered by Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood players on the Xbox 360 have been eliminated recently, as Ubisoft fixed the online problems. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood on the Xbox 360 has been on the receiving end of a new update released by Ubisoft a few days ago, but it se...

19 January 2011
02:35 GMT

FIFA 11 Still Leads in the United Kingdom

The football simulation FIFA 11 from EA Sports has managed to get another full week at the top of the United Kingdom video game market, while Call of Duty: Black Ops, developed by Treyarch and published by Activision, has continued its slow slide down the charts after being the best sold title of last year on the sam...

13 January 2011
04:21 GMT

The PC Platform Is Important to Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft Says

Despite the fact that it has been treated as a secondary platform, the PC is still quite important to the Assassin's Creed franchise, at least according to the publisher of the series, Ubisoft. Assassin's Creed hasn't really found a great home on the PC, as both the first and second titles have reac...

13 January 2011
03:45 GMT

Here Are the Nominees for the Video Games Writing Award

The Writers Guild of America has announced the titles that will be in the running for the Video Games Writing Award, with Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, God of War 3 and Fallout: New Vegas being the high profile nominees.The Guild has considered games released between December 1, 2009 and November 30 of th...

11 January 2011
03:10 GMT

Ubisoft Sales Led by Rabbids, Petz and Imagine

Large French developer and publisher Ubisoft has a pretty big franchise portfolio, with heavy hitters like Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell or Rainbow Six Vegas, but its best selling franchises aren't among these, as a recent statistic shows that the most units were sold in its Rayman Ravin...

4 January 2011
17:21 GMT

Rumor Mill: Strategy Spin Off Prepared for Assassin's Creed

A series of job postings coming from the Massive studio of publisher Ubisoft suggests that the Assassin's Creed franchise might be getting a spin off which uses at least some of the mechanics of the real time strategy genre. Massive is looking for fresh blood for the company, suggesting that they have a big ...

29 December 2010
04:53 GMT

Assassin's Creed Players on Track to Unlock Rome by Night Map

Publisher Ubisoft is encouraging players of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood to log into the multiplayer component of their games in order to reach 25 million online kills, the set mark which will unlock a new map for the multiplayer side of the game, called “Rome by Night.” It seems that the officia...

27 December 2010
05:59 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood PS3 Patch Coming Soon

Ubisoft has just revealed that it will be launching a patch for the PlayStation 3 version of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, which aims at fixing several known bugs, including the so-called Animus glitch and a Trophy-related one. While Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood was welcomed with open arms by gamers, b...

23 December 2010
02:25 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Is Ubisoft's Fastest Selling Game Ever

Ubisoft has just revealed that the recent Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is its fastest selling game ever released, managing to take the whole Assassin's Creed franchise over the 20 million units sold mark. According to Ubisoft's sales and marketing boss for the European, Middle Eastern and African t...

6 December 2010
15:51 GMT

Survey Hints to New Features for Assassin's Creed 3

It seems that Ubisoft isn't wasting any time after the successful release of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, and is already setting up surveys around the world to see what gamers want in the next game, Assassin's Creed 3. It seems that one of those private surveys leaked out, and that the options ava...

6 December 2010
04:15 GMT

Big Assassin’s Creed Game Coming in 2011, Ubisoft Says

Hot on the heels of the launch of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Ubisoft has once again promised that next year will also see another title in the extremely popular franchise, which will expand it even further.Assassin’s Creed is currently Ubisoft's best selling franchise, and its newest game, Brothe...

30 November 2010
04:17 GMT

A Gamer's Week: November 28

This week we have three significant reviews: one for the shooter Vanquish, from developers Platinum Games and publisher SEGA, another for the engrossing Football Manager 2011, the well known management simulation series from Sports Interactive, and one for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the new game in the third...

28 November 2010
06:11 GMT

EndWeekGame: November 26

Andrei Dumitrescu: We're almost past the height of the autumn launch season, ready to enter that period of pre Christmas silence when we can go back and play again some of the most interesting games of the year before we worry about awards and about Game of the Year editions.And for this weekend I plan to thorou...

26 November 2010
16:31 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 Gets Free DLC Next Month

Ubisoft has just revealed that its newest game, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood will get its first free downloadable content, the Animus Project Update 1.0, next month, which will add a new multiplayer mode and another map.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has just been launched for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360...

25 November 2010
15:51 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Keeps United Kingdom Number One

Call of Duty: Black Ops, the first person shooter blockbuster from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, has managed to fend off some very touch new opposition in order to keep the number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart for the previous week, just as it was reported that the title ...

25 November 2010
13:41 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Diary - Farming and Growing Your Assassins

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.One of the big new features for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is the possibility of recruiting your own assassins and ...

25 November 2010
07:11 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


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