Ubisoft released a new trailer for Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag entitled The True Golden Age of Pirates. The trailer gives players some background on the real history of piracy recreated in Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. No major new plot details or gameplay footage is revealed in The True Golden Age of Pirates. The [...]
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Watch Dogs May Become Ubisoft’s Next Big Franchise
E3 2012 was fairly underwhelming, many developers showed off games that everyone knew about and Nintendo trotted out their next-gen Wii U, but nothing had a visceral feel to it. Unlike prior iterations of the gaming conference, there seemed to be no true surprises. The current console cycle was entering its final hurrah and despite [...]
Assassin’s Creed 4 Must Take Risks To Remain Relevant
Assassin’s Creed 4 is at high risk of fatiguing the popular franchise. Since 2009, Ubisoft has released a new Assassin’s Creed game every year with varying degrees of critical and commercial success. Despite steady improvements to the graphics, mission structure, multiplayer and overall amount of content, the series still hasn’t had a considerable jump in [...]
Assassin’s Creed Creator Fired by Ubisoft
Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets is out at Ubisoft, a company he recently rejoined. Désilets helped build the Assassin’s Creed franchise but left Ubisoft in 2010 before the release of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. In 2011, he began working for THQ in the company’s Montreal studio. Ubisoft acquired the studio in a THQ bankruptcy auction, leaving doubts about [...]
Assassin Games Are a Mysteriously Alluring Trend
Assassin games have rose to prominence in the most recent generation of video games. It has become a popular trend for developers to produce games featuring assassin protagonists. The assassin games trend can see its roots in the stealth genre, which really took off in 1998 with Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation and Thief: [...]
The Plunders and Blunders of Assassin’s Creed 4
Assassin’s Creed III (AC3) was received with good reviews from critics, but the game did not fare as well with the general public. A wide array of glitches were revealed as the game was exposed to more players. Characters’ mouths not moving as they spoke in cutscenes, guards hovering above the city frozen in time, random [...]
Assassin’s Creed 4 Trailer Leaked and Major Details Revealed
Out of nowhere, little known YouTube user “Igor Surov” leaked what was undeniably the “World Premiere Trailer” to Ubisoft’s upcoming AAA title, Assassin’s Creed 4. Dubbed ‘Black Flag‘ the game had just been announced by the publisher, with no release date or platform information revealed. With the trailer now leaked, all that has totally changed. [...]
Assassin’s Creed 4 to Release by March 2014
A new Assassin’s Creed game with a new hero and new time period will launch in fiscal year 2014, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced during the company’s third-quarter earnings call. The 2014 fiscal year begins this April and lasts until March 2014. Guillemot expects the game to be another major step forward for the Assassin’s [...]
Oh the Places Assassin’s Creed 4 Will Go
When Assassin’s Creed 3 wrapped up the story of Desmond Miles and the supposed end of the world, it left many players wondering where the story would go next in the inevitable Assassin’s Creed 4. Since the second game in the series, Ubisoft has made a point of churning out a new Assassin’s Creed game [...]
Assassin’s Creed 3 Tyranny of King George Trailer Released
Ubisoft unveiled a new trailer for Assassin’s Creed 3 featuring the Tyranny of King George downloadable content that will add more single-player missions to the game. The Tyranny of King George DLC takes place in an alternate history in which players must fight George Washington because he has become a power-hungry tyrant. Washington and the [...]
