The Assassin’s Creed franchise is Ubisoft’s darling. The most recent entry into the series, last year’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, has shipped 6.5 million copies worldwide since release. The game played an integral role in Ubisoft’s third financial quarter, helping the third biggest publisher to generate a €600 million turnover in three months. Brotherhood was somewhat more than a filler title …
Major Nelson’s given up full details of Xbox Live’s up-coming House Party promotion. Like Summer of Arcade, House Party is a collection of big profile games coming at you week after week. Some pretty good games coming to XBL, but one in particular is calling out my name. Ubisoft’s HD re-release of Beyond Good and Evil, priced at a reasonable …
A few days back Nick posted about the rumour that Jade Raymond’s upcoming title, I Am Alive, had been downgraded to become a downloadable title only and that this once greatly hyped game was virtually doomed. However in an odd twist Ubisoft has now come out and said that this isn’t true at all and that there is nothing to …
Do any of you actually remember when I Am Alive was announced to the world back in 2008? Some people actually got pretty darn excited about it, but it looks like its future has just taken a turn for the worse. Last Updated: February 1, 2011
Animus Project Update 2.0, Available in January, Will Also Be Available For Free Johannesburg, South Africa – January 06, 2011 – Megarom Interactive (Pty) Ltd., South Africa’s leading importer and distributor of interactive video games, today announced that the Animus Project Update 1.0 downloadable content (DLC) for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from …
One of my picks from E3 was Ubisoft’s fitness title, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, and I was very interested to see the full title in a non controlled location. Lets get this straight right from the beginning though, this is a fitness title. This isn’t a game and if you were hoping for a game that made you fit then …
Assassin’s Creed 3 is coming; everyone knows that. The franchise is Ubisoft’s biggest, there have always been plans for a trilogy and Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is not the final part of that trilogy. We all know how sequels work: the next game in a series will (well, it should) contain new gameplay features and mechanics. Users over on NeoGAF have …
It’s been a year since Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed II and threw us into the life of Ezio Auditore di Firenze, a young Italian man who learns the secret art of stab-ology. While the original Assassin’s Creed was a bit of a disappointment to many people, the sequel finally gave everyone the game that they always wanted by adding necessary …
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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