AssassinsCreed posts

While the Assassin's Creed franchise has been a big hit for developer-publisher Ubisoft on the console front, the open world stealth action game series hasn't had much of an impact on the PC platform. The first two games in the series were released months after their console platform debuts and the same goes for the third game, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, which is already out for Xbox 360 and PS3 but isn't due out for the PC until sometime in the first quarter of 2011.

Yet, an Ubisoft rep insisted to Computer and Video Games that the PC is a big part of the game series. Ubisoft UK marketing boss Murray Pannell is quoted as saying, "Definitely, PC is still an important platform for the franchise." He added that details on what the PC port of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood will contain will be revealed "soon".

Valve's Steam digital distribution service for games has become more and more popular with publishers eager to reach its millions of users. Recently Ubisoft decided to join the fray by announcing that it will provide Steam owners with over 40 PC games in the company's back catalog (the most by any other single publisher on Steam) as well as upcoming titles like this week's release of the PC version of Assassin's Creed and this fall's release of Far Cry 2.

You can pre-purchase Assassin's Creed via Steam right now before its release on April 9; two of Ubisoft's older titles, the first Splinter Cell game and the original Far Cry, are already available for purchase and download via Steam. In the future expect more titles from their Tom Clancy brand to be made available via Steam along with games from the Heroes of Might and Magic franchise and titles from the IL-2 Sturmovik military flying sim series.