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Assassin’s Creed: Origins hands-on — unraveling a betrayal in ancient Egypt

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Ubisoft peeled back more layers of story behind Assassin’s Creed Origins at the Gamescom event in Cologne, Germany, and it highlights the escalating war of assassination between the leaders of ancient Egypt.

The open-world game is coming October 27 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. While the franchise took a break last year, Ubisoft gave the development team more time to come up with the origin story for the brotherhood of assassins during the era of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. It’s a big bet in a franchise that has sold 100 million units.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.