Sony announces Assassin’s Creed III Vita and PS3 bundles with exclusive content
This fall, Sony will release a PlayStation Vita bundled with Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation and a PlayStation 3 bundled with Assassin’s Creed III. “When...
Turn the snow crimson with redcoat blood in Assassin’s Creed III
Ubisoft needs to pump new life into the Assassin’s Creed video game franchise, which has a new edition annually like clockwork. This year, French game...
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot embraces disruption, new business models and new platforms (interview)
Yves Guillemot, the chief executive of French game publisher Ubisoft, belives that traditional game companies will be able to meet the challenge of the...
Ubisoft’s creative director on why hooded assassins still fit in the American Revolution (interview)
Alex Hutchinson is the creative director on Assassin’s Creed III. The game is one of the biggest video games of the year, and Hutchinson’s...
Black female protagonist in Assassin’s Creed: Liberation
The new Game Informer reveals the Vita game will star Aveline, a French woman of African decent, who lives in New Orleans. Aveline will also have no connection to Desmond, which means a new character will be in the Animus machine.
If Walmart.com’s horrible copy writers were to describe 2012’s biggest games…
A selection of 2012's most anticipated releases, written in the style of Walmart.com's hilarious Diablo III product description.
Assassin’s Creed fans pummel author who claims Ubisoft stole from him
Internet justice is back. This time the angry mob is a group of gamers with their sights set on a sci-fi author who claims Assassin's Creed lifts ideas from his 2002 novel. He is looking for compensation. Inevitably, this led to retribution from fans of the series.
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly...
4 things you won’t see in Assassin’s Creed III
At the premiere event for Assassin's Creed III, freshly minted franchise Creative Director Alex Hutchinson took a break from unveiling a game we want more of to pull back the curtain slightly on a game that will never be. "You tend to play the first draft of a video game," says Hutchinson, but he intends to deliver something a few revisions down the line. By way of proof, he showed us a four things that didn't survive the first round of edits.
10 ways Assassin’s Creed III wants to defy your expectations
Here are 10 ways creative director Hutchinson and his team at Ubisoft Montreal plan to take your ho-hum expectations and turn them into pleasant surprises.