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Trials Evolution creative director discusses going bigger, multiplayer, and female riders (interview)

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 5, 2012
5 min

Trials HD is one of the best-selling Xbox Live Arcade games to date, and for good reason. Released in 2009, the creative, side-scrolling physics-based...

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New Assassin’s Creed III trailer and tons of leaked details [updated]

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 4, 2012
6 min

NeoGAF user Nirolak has gotten a hold of the Assassin’s Creed III cover story in the latest issue of Game Informer Magazine. Nirolak disseminated...

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Official Assassin’s Creed III box art and leaked screens confirm American Revolution setting [update]

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 2, 2012
1 min

With the stories of both Ezio and Altair coming to a close in last year’s Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Ubisoft has revealed the next of...

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Troubled U.K. retailer Game will not be stocking Mass Effect 3

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 1, 2012
3 min

Fresh concerns about the future of European game retailer Game Group have risen today, as it was revealed that the company will not be...

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Study: Video games depict religion as violent and problematic (interview)

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 29, 2012
3 min

Many newer-generation video games equate religion with violence, finds a new study from the University of Missouri. Greg Perreault, a doctoral student in the...

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Ubisoft ships 13M dance games and 7M copies of Assassin Creed title

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 15, 2012
2 min

French video game publisher Ubisoft reported today that it shipped more than 13 million dance games and 7 million copies of Assassin’s Creed Revelations...

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Prince of Persia creator returns to games with remake of Karateka

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 15, 2012
3 min

After a stint in film, Jordan Mechner, a legendary game developer who created The Prince of Persia blockbuster video game series, is coming back...

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Review: How Final Fantasy XIII-2 saves the franchise…for now

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 3, 2012
11 min

2010’s Final Fantasy XIII may have sold well enough, but the perplexingly bad design decisions quickly made the title a bitter disappointment for many...

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Ubisoft server transition will make always-on DRM games unplayable

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 2, 2012
2 min

Many of Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft’s online services will be offline starting Feb. 7 as it moves its servers from a third-party data center...

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Ubisoft developers explain the experimental survival game I am Alive (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 16, 2012
2 min

The game play of I Am Alive, a title developed by Ubisoft’s Shanghai studio, is unconventional. Instead of a plethora of weapons and ammo,...

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