After the riprorious success of the other mid-90′s Need for Speed reboot Hot Pursuit and the subsequent disappointing sludge that was The Run, a shakeup of the entire franchise was in order.
As creators of the only decent Need for Speed game in years, earlier this year Criterion took over all development of future Need for Speed titles. Prior to this, Criterion racers were either Burnout or forgettable...
Creative director of Assassin’s Creed 3 Alex Hutchinson has mentioned that the team underestimated the popularity of Assassin’s Creed 3′s naval battles.
It was first shown at the Sony conference at E3, and many people were impressed by it. They could have spawned a whole new game from that, but Ubisoft Montreal decided against it because it was too risky at that time.
“When we looked into...
The "Assassin's Creed" franchise is now in its fifth installment — and is looking better than ever. (Ubisoft)
I recently got a chance for some hands-on time with easily one of the most anticipated games of the holiday season: Ubisoft's "Assassin's Creed 3." Instead of being on foot and climbing on rooftops in Boston, I was established in Caribbean on controlling a boat.
The "Assassin's...
It's been a big week for GTA V fans, as Rockstar has released more information about the game than ever before. This week held 10 new screenshots for the upcoming open world game, and today, the developer has released four new shots that encompass the "Business" going down in Los Santos. That business obviously entails shooting at helicopters, naturally. As well as running away from people...
Ubisoft's Far Cry 2 is at its best when your best laid plans go catastrophically wrong – when craftily assassinating a single target goes haywire and becomes a blood-soaked, bullet-ridden assault on an entire army. While I was only able to experience a tiny slice of the Far Cry 3 single-player campaign, I can happily report, at the very least, that things can definitely still go wrong.
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Assassin's Creed 3 will not have a multiplayer beta according to Ubisoft. The developer, who held a beta for previous AC games, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Assassin's Creed: Revelations stated that, while getting community feedback through beta testing is helpful, the process takes time that they'd rather spend adding elements to the game. "We’d need to polish a version, submit it to the...
At Comic-Con 2012, Alex Hutchinson, Creative Director, lead an equally informative and entertaining panel about Assassin's Creed 3. The panel revealed a lot of interesting facts about the development of the game. Here are the five most intriguing things we learned during the Assassin's Creed 3 Comic-Con 2012 panel!
The Weapons Are Going To Be Totally Bad Ass
Setting the game in American naturally...
As promised on Monday, Rockstar has released even more screens for our enjoyment! This time we're getting a peek at some of the leisure activities we can expect to see.
Dirt bike racing is back, and looks better then ever!
Tennis anyone? The house looks nice too...maybe we own it? maybe based on grand slam tennis?
BASE Jumping is always fun, and the countryside looks very expansive!
Also of...
Rockstar Games has just released three new GTA V screenshots on the Newswire, under the title "Transport".The post also promises more to come this week. While we're waiting, come and discuss these screenshots in comments or our facebook page
Military jet - updated from trailer - flying over Vinewood. Is that Ned Luke's character flying???
Cheetah tearing up the streets.
Riding a bicycle along...
As the saying goes, if some is good then more is better, but that has not exactly been the case for some fans of the Assassin's Creed franchise.
There is a rather large, vocal group of Assassin's supporters who adore the franchise, but believe the series should take a year or so away from releasing new versions of the game because they don't want the game to get stale?
Are they right?
Should...
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The end of October sees the latest Assassin’s Creed launch, a game that has an actual number suffixed to the end of it. Assassin’s Creed 2 launched back in 2009, brining with it some much-needed improvements, before continuing the tale with annual releases in the for of AC: Brotherhood and AC: Revelations. And that’s a development cycle that will continue with the latest game as well,...
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Ubisoft has mentioned that Assassin’s Creed is a long term franchise like Mario and Resident Evil.
People usually bash Ubisoft for releasing Assassin’s Creed games yearly but they have said that it’s going to be a long term franchise and they’re doing their best to not drag down the franchise’s quality.
“Since when is something less amazing if you get a new one every year? If Breaking Bad...
Alex Hutchinson, the creative director of Assassin’s Creed 3, thinks he knows why Nintendo can get away with releasing new versions of old franchises. It might not be the answer you expect.
After Hutchinson compared AC to other well known franchises, Mario and Resident Evil, website CVG asked the creative director why Nintendo can release a new version of its franchises every year and nobody...
After receiving a vocal negative regarding the trailer that featured Agent 47 systematically murdering an assassin squad posing as nuns decked out in latex and PVC, developer IO Interactive has decided to make some changes to Hitman Absolution."We learned from the trailer that we really needed to give these characters some context and some backstory," Hitman Absolution director Tore Blystad told...
Here's the clip from Gamescom detailing Hitman: Absolution's recently revealed asynchronous multiplayer mode, "Contracts." Playable at the German mega show, Contracts allows players to make their own scenario of Agent 47 marks and challenge their friends to do better.
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Hitman: Absolution will feature an asynchronous multiplayer mode known as "Contracts," IO Interactive revealed at a Gamescom event. Players make their own scenarios, targeting any three characters on a given level with any weapons, and challenging other players to complete the contract in less time (and for more money).
For example, in the oft-seen library scene where Agent 47 is trying to...
Who's that dashing sea captain with the ragged hair? Ah, of course – it's the half-Native / half-British protagonist of Assassin's Creed 3,
Connor. And wouldn't you know it, he's got his trusty tomahawk aboard
that colonial era ship. Take a peek at the leaked footage above before
Ubi pulls i...
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2K Czech gangster sequel reportedly originally intended to be next-gen launch title, but that has become "unlikely" due to need for additional staff.
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Mafia...
Detailed Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 single player, multiplayer, weapons, and zombie info has leaked from an anonymous Associate Producer at Activision. Keep in mind that lists like this leak all the time and usually a lot of the content found within them are either totally made up, or don't make it in to the game. Basically what I'm saying is take the following information with a grain of salt...
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The Xbox 720: We all know it's coming, but it hasn't been announced. It has, though, been "kind of" confirmed by a Microsoft general manager.
In an interview with The Verge, Brian Hall General Manager of Windows Live, said that the new Xbox will be released "in time" for a spate of new Microsoft products, including Windows 8 and the Windows...
As anyone who has spent any amount of time with the Assassin’s Creed series knows, brutal and “Oh sh*t!”-inducing combat is one of its most joyous cornerstones. And if you’ve been keeping up with any of our Assassin’s Creed 3 coverage, like our video feature on the evolution of the franchise's combat system, then you know full well that this tradition not only continues with Ubisoft Montreal’s...
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