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All You Need To Know: Assassin's Creed 2

by James Murff Nov 18th 2009 @ 8:00PM

Games that are coming out soon have a lot of unknowns that the average person might not know. Who is this character inspired by? Is all the talk of volumetric fog or cel-shaded graphics really worthwhile? Do the game mechanics really seem solid, or are they lackluster? In All You Need To Know we provide information to help you fully appreciate what these upcoming games have to offer.

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Assassin's Creed novel announced

by John Callaham Nov 8th 2009 @ 9:00AM

Yesterday we reported on the early release of a novel based on Ubisoft's upcoming spy game Splinter Cell Conviction. Now comes word that another Ubisoft game is being turned into a prose piece. Assassin's Creed: Renaissance is the title of the book that's based on the upcoming stealth action game series.

The book, written by an apparent first time author named Oliver Bowden, seems to be based on the storyline from Assassin's Creed 2, at least according to the summary from Amazon.com The paperback is due for release on November 26 while the PC version of the game is due out in the first quarter of 2010.

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The French getting Assassin's Creed comic

by John Callaham Oct 28th 2009 @ 4:00PM

Ubisoft is a company based in France, a country that has a solid respect for comic books. French comics include creations that are even known in the US including Tintin, Asterix and XIII (which Ubisoft adapted into a cel-shaded shooter a few years ago). Now their upcoming sequel Assassin's Creed 2 will be getting some marketing back-up from a French-made comic.

Bleeding Cool has three pages from the upcoming Assassin's Creed comic which will be published in France on November 13, a few days before Assassin's Creed 2 ships to stores on November 17. The preview pages from the comic, written by Eric Corbeyran and drawn by Djilalli Defaux, seem to show the assassin in the days of the Roman Empire rather than the Middle Ages setting of the game sequel. Hopefully some comic book publisher in the US can bring this comic to our shores.

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Assassin's Creed just $5 on Steam until Thursday

by John Callaham Oct 20th 2009 @ 4:00PM

Looks like Direct2Drive isn't the only downloadable PC game site to offer a $5 game this week. Today Steam announced a sale on Ubisoft's original game in the Assassin's Creed series for only 5 bucks. That's a 75 percent savings off its normal Steam price. The sale will remain in effect until Thursday.

Of course, the PC version of Assassin's Creed was released several months after the console version shipped to stores. However the PC port did have some extra missions and tweaks to the game. However it looks like the upcoming sequel, Assassin's Creed 2, will follow the original as the PC version. While the console ports are due on November 17 the PC version won't be released until the first quarter of 2010.

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Jade Raymond to head up new Ubisoft Toronto dev studio

by John Callaham Aug 31st 2009 @ 8:30PM

One of the most well known people at Ubisoft (and let's face one of the best looking game developers period) has just gotten a promotion. Jade Raymond has just been named the head of the publisher's recently revealed development studio in Toronto.

Raymond previously gained fame as the producer for Ubisoft's hit Assassin's Creed which was developed at Ubisoft's Montreal studio. As head of the new Toronto team, Raymond will still report to Yannis Mallat, who is the CEO of both Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Toronto. The Toronto office will open by the end of 2009 but at the moment there's no word on what specific games Raymond will be in charge of at the new studio.

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Tons of Ubisoft games to be added to GameTap

by John Callaham Jul 27th 2009 @ 12:00PM

The PC game subscription-download service GameTap has been adding more and more games to its library of titles. A few months ago it announced it would be adding titles from Microsoft and today the company announced a new deal with Ubisoft that renews its current contract and will add over 50 Ubisoft games to its subscription service.

GameTap plans to add titles like the Brothers In Arms series, the Rainbow Six Vegas series, the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter series, Far Cry 2, Assassin's Creed and more to its monthly subscription service. In addition Ubisoft games will be added to GameTap's digital download store.

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Assassin's Creed 2 web site teaser; Game Informer to get first preview

by John Callaham Apr 6th 2009 @ 8:00PM

It was one of the highest selling games of 2007 (and it wasn't even a sequel). It was Assassin's Creed and the Ubisoft developed-and-published open world action game set in the Middle Ages (but not really) came out for the PC in April 2008. Now Ubisoft is teasing us with some new images at the game's official site that signals the publisher's first marketing of the sequel.

Yep, Ubisoft is prepping a follow-up to the game (shocker, we know) and the first teaser images seem to link Assassin's Creed 2 to Leonardo Da Vinci (which makes us wonder if Tom Hanks is wandering around the game) . We shouldn't have much longer to get the full scoop on the sequel. The web site teases (via a mirror text) that more info will be revealed in the next Game Informer print issue.

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Steam to put Ubisoft games on sale this week, starting with Assassin's Creed

by John Callaham Mar 23rd 2009 @ 1:00PM

Steam users are used to getting sales on the weekend for one or two games but this week Steam's operators Valve are doing something a little different as they plan to put one game on sale every day. All of the game's come from Ubisoft's catalog of titles.

Today the first of these games have been put on sale. For today only you can purchase and download the PC port of the stealth action game Assassin's Creed for $9.99. That's a 50 percent discount off its normal Steam price of $19.99. Again this sale price is for today only with another Ubisoft game put on sale on Tuesday and so on until Friday.

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Black Friday deals push older PC games back onto top 10 list

by John Callaham Dec 10th 2008 @ 5:00PM

The NPD Group has released its latest list of the top 10 best selling PC games, this time for the week ending Nov. 29. That happens to include the "Black Friday" shopping date and because of this a number of older PC games that got big discounts found themselves back for one week only on the list.

Among the reappearences: Bioshock, Assassins's Creed and The Sims 2 Deluxe, all of which had Black Friday discounts at one or more retailers. Blizzard's MMO expansion pack World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King still hit the number one spot for the week, which proves that Blizzard fans still want their game no matter what the price.

1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard
2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
3. Spore - Electronic Arts
4. BioShock - 2K Games
5. The Sims 2 Deluxe - Electronic Arts
6. Left 4 Dead - Valve/EA
7. Call Of Duty: World At War - Activision
8. Assassin's Creed - Ubisoft
9. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest - Blizzard
10. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts

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Rumors on Assassin's Creed 2 hit the Internet tubes

by John Callaham Nov 28th 2008 @ 3:00PM

It's not a shock to learn that Ubisoft is working on a sequel to their open world action game Assasin's Creed. The first game in the series (released for consoles a year ago and for the PC last April) sold several million copies worldwide. Our sister site Joystiq reports that in this week's conference call with financial analysts, Ubisoft execs stated the sequel is in production and is due out sometime in Ubisoft's 2010 fiscal year which actually begins April 1, 2009.

Once more, Giant Bomb reports that during a taping of an episode of Gametrailers.com's Bonus Round series, financial analyst Michael Pachter revealed that according to his sources the sequel will change historical time periods to the 1700s rather than the original's time frame of 1191 (of course people who have actually played the game know that things are not what they appear to be in the title).

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