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E3 2010 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Trailer Is Proper Amazing, Reveals November 16th Release Date
We love Assassin's Creed trailers
They're amazing. This CGI teaser for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is no exception, revealing Ezio's no-longer a lone-wolf, as he calls on the Brotherhood to kick some serious ass. Consider us ridiculously excited for this game; Assassin's Creed II was a masterpiece. The trailer concludes with a November 16th date,...
News Ubisoft's Patrice Desilets Embarks On "Creative Break From The Industry"
The creative director of both Assassin's Creed titles, Patrice Desilets, has left Ubisoft for a "creative break from the industry", GameInformer report
According to the source, Desilets work on the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is essentially complete, and he'll have no further role on the product. Further details are largely unknown,...
E3 2010 So, How Much Do You Like 16-Bit Brawlers?
We like 16-bit brawlers
Your favourite is probably Streets Of Rage or something. How generic, yo. Our favourite is Two Crude Dudes - man that game was rad; you got to throw cars at peoples heads. Anyway, before we go off on a bigger tangent, check out Ubisoft's trailer for PSN title Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Then you'll see why we started...
News Ubisoft Tease New Driver Game With Countdown, Cars
Driver's back
Do you remember Driver? It was a bit of a PSone classic if we recall correctly. Sadly, as the years passed, so too did the franchise's quality. Still, those last few games should not shroud shadow over Ubisoft's reboot of the franchise, which has just been teased via a new website and teaser video ( that's the one above). Cool. Cars...
News Ubisoft Drop Artwork For "Secret" Non-Game Project
Ubisoft's dropped some artwork on their Twitter page for a "secret" non-game project which has "absolutely nothing to do with Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"
Narrows things down doesn't it? The artwork's by Grzegorz Domaradzki, who incidentally worked on the cover for Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines.
News Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Nuggets Dip Into The Barbeque Sauce
British Playstation mag PSM3 has some of the first details on Ubisoft's upcoming multiplayer Assassin's Creed title, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
CVG's being stingy passing on the details, but apparently yes, the eight-player multiplayer mode will have you silently sneaking around small sub-sections of Italian cities assassinating each other. Will...
News Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Shots Show Scary Man Running Around With A Syringe
We've always felt that Assassin's Creed could be darker
We know the games are already fairly nasty as they are, but we wouldn't mind seeing them pass into a more psychologically dark direction. This new screen from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood doesn't really confirm anything like that, but it does show a scary man wearing a mask while sticking a...
News Stop Worrying: Beyond Good & Evil 2 Is Still In Development (Apparently)
"There are no changes on the horizon"
Despite rumours last week that one of the key members of Ubisoft's Beyond Good & Evil 2 team had left, the company's come out to tell Eurogamer that all is well in pig-land. "There are no changes on the horizon," an Ubisoft rep said. Asked if Beyond Good & Evil 2 was still in development the rep simply...
News Pure Football Gets The Launch Trailer Treatment
We must be bad at our jobs or something - we had no idea Pure Football was out today
Did you, valued reader? Did anyone? The game's hook appears to be football without rules. The animations look a bit janky in this trailer, mind. Hmm.
E3 2010 Driver Confirmed For Ubisoft's E3 Line-up
Ubisoft's dropped a list of its E3 titles, and that list includes the new Driver game -- tipped to be called Driver: The Recruit
The game will be shown alongside the likes of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Shaun White Skateboarding, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and presumably a few surprises. Ubi's press conference takes place on Monday, June 14th.
News Ubisoft Drop Details On HAWX 2, Will Feature Four-Player Co-Op
Ubisoft's dropped some new details on the upcoming Tom Clancy's HAWX 2
Most notably, the game will feature four-player co-op throughout the game's entire campaign, alongside traditional eight-player competitive multiplayer. Ubisoft are gunning to feature "all aspects of aerial combat," including take-offs and landings in HAWX 2. There'll...
News Liverpool Captain Steven Gerrard Talks Up Ubisoft's Pure Football Game
Ubisoft are dicing with death making a football game if you ask us
There's barely enough room for the once massive Pro Evolution Soccer franchise anymore - so adding Pure Football to the mix seems like pure suicide. Still Stevie-G seems excited about being in the game doesn't he? And if that excitement translates to him actually helping England win...
News Shaun White, Erm, Skateboards Himself Onto The Playstation 3
We thought Shaun White was a snowboarder but apparently he's a skateboarder too
Wikipedia told us as much. Apparently he's really good too, with a ton of medals and video games to his names. And now he's about to get one more, as Ubisoft's just announced they're due to publish Shaun White Skateboarding. The game's due a full reveal at next month's...
News Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Launch Trailer Features Angry Sand Man
Apparently, the lead antagonist in Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is a little bit pissed about being locked away in some kind of sand-crypt thing for years and years
"What man could stop me?" the nasty monster asks. We're gonna hedge a bet on the British-American-Persian Prince. [Review forthcoming for this by the way. Verdict:...
News Yes, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Will Get An Online Multiplayer Beta
Nope, we still haven't got a clue how an online multiplayer Assassin's Creed is going to work - but Ubisoft's going to give us a taste with a beta for the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
We have not announced exactly the date yet," Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot said, "but yes, we will have a beta test." We dare say that'll be...
News You Should Probably Pre-order Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood From GameStop, The Bonus Is Amazing
If you're planning to buy Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - Ubisoft's multiplayer follow-up to last year's Assassin's Creed II - you should probably pre-order it from GameStop
That's if you're in the US anyway. Why? Because while we still know nothing about what Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood will actually be like, the retailer has revealed that...
News Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Goes 2D On Playstation Portable
Ubisoft's been pretty keen on promoting Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands for the PS3 up until this point
Thankfully, they've now decided it a fitting moment to discuss the PSP version. Apparently, the portable version is a "unique game built from the ground up" and "is not a port from any other system". Good start. The...
News The Prince Can Probably Get Into Positions We Could Only Dream Of
Over time, we've come to realise that the Prince Of Persia is a pretty acrobatic fellow
Not only can he leap further and climb higher than we could ever imagine, he can also do it with style. In fact, he's probably the perfect man. No wonder he always gets the hot Princesses. This Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands trailer showcases our friendly...
News Ubisoft Drip-Feed More Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Details
Sounds like Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the upcoming multiplayer extension of Ubisoft's period franchise, will be getting a pretty chunky single-player component in addition to its online additions
Ubisoft's told us that the game will boast a 15-hour campaign following Ezio's continued battle against the Templar Order in Rome. In order to trump...
News Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Teaser Website Launches
Ubisoft's just dropped word that a teaser website for the upcoming multiplayer focused Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has launched
The website presumably reveals some of the weapons players will get their hands on in the game, including an axe, a fan, a syringe, a dagger and a claw. Still no real context on how the game will work, but we assume...
News Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Introduction Is Worth A Watch
If you want to get in the mood for the upcoming Prince Of Persia movie (and of course, the latest Prince Of Persia game, The Forgotten Sands) we recommend two things
Firstly: watch the above introduction trailer. It's really rather good. Secondly: stare endlessly at images of Gemma Arterton. We won her in our dreams last night. Sadly we woke up to a...
News Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Confirmed By Ubisoft
It's been rumoured for some time but this morning, Ubisoft has confirmed that Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is an official video game
The rumours started with a domain name filing by the company last week. Since then, Kotaku has received a photograph of a GameStop placeholder box. Evidence which you can't really deny. So Ubisoft said, "Hey,...
News HAWX 2 Jets Off This Fall On Playstation 3
As if one sky-combat announcement wasn't enough for for you today - then brace yourselves
Ubisoft's just announced that HAWX 2 is in development at their Bucharest studio. The game will apparently give players the opportunity to "become elite aerial soldiers in control of the world's most technologically advanced aircraft." Awesome. We...
News Cryptic Facebook Tease Hints At E3 Reveal For New Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed antagonist Dr
Vidic has invaded the franchise's official Facebook page to tease, what we assume to be, an E3 announcement. It is the time of our rising, the note reads. A new age enters and a great battle looms. Templar destiny is at hand and waiting for you. Dr. Vidic." A new Assassin's Creed was announced at the...
News Pachter: You Will "Absolutely" See Splinter Cell Conviction On Playstation 3
Let's be honest here folks
Splinter Cell Conviction not appearing on the PS3 at some point makes about as much sense as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I.e. NONE AT ALL. And seasoned video game industry analyst Michael Pachter agrees. The Wedbush Morgan analyst stated on his GameTrailers slot PachAttack that "Ubisoft gets it" and that...
News So This Is What You Get In The Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Collector Edition
Just as a quick side-note - the music in the trailer embedded above sounds exactly the same as a God Of War track
Y'know, we're not trying to start anything here, we're simply stating. When it's not sounding like God Of War mind, the trailer above shows you what you get as part of the upcoming Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Collector Edition...
News RUSE Gets Pushed Back Once Again, Now Due In September
Ubisoft's decided to push their real-time strategy game RUSE back to September
A game delay is hardly a surprising thing, but in RUSE's case this is approximately the fourth time it's been pushed back. The announcement comes via the game's Facebook page, and cites "massive feedback" from the game's recent beta. They state that "this...
News Assassin's Creed Enters The Guinness Book Of World Records 2010
We've often thought that Guiness World Records could be a bit dumb
There's a probably a world record for eating the most cup-cakes in under 30 seconds while underwater with a pineapple down your trunks. They're silly. And that kind of applies to Assassin's Creed II's "coveted" award of... "video game featured on the most magazine...
Ok Ubisoft, you've got us
Despite Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands being a reboot of a franchise we already thought was rebooted in 2008, this game looks kind of awesome. The PS2 Prince Of Persia games were already great for their time, and a little bit more of that really can't do any harm. And that's exactly what this latest gameplay trailer...
Rumour Ubisoft Employee's CV Reckons Splinter Cell: Conviction Is Coming To The PS3
Ubisoft may be being coy regarding the potential release of Splinter Cell: Conviction on the Playstation 3, but one employee within the company seems to think it's happening
The game's currently a PC and XBOX 360 exclusive, a strange set of circumstances given Ubisoft are a third-party publisher, and could maximise profits further by publishing the...
News Once Upon A Time Assassin's Creed Was Coming To The PS2
Assassin's Creed was a pretty early Playstation 3 game
Some of you might remember the hype around Ubisoft's pseudo-historical parkour debut. But did you know that alongside the PS3 version, Ubisoft were working on a PS2 version of the game? Nope, us neither. But that's what Ubisoft's Jonathan Jacques-Belletete has told 1Up. He told the publication...
News First Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Details Invade Official Playstation Magazine
CVG has put up a few teases regarding Ubisoft's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier; which is due to be revealed in the next issue of Official Playstation Magazine (UK)
Apparently the game takes place 10-15 years after Advanced Warfighter, meaning the Ghost squad have seriously advanced gear in this game. You'll get to mess around with Stealth Cloaks,...
News Get Your First Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Footage Here
Here's your first-look at the new Prince Of Persia game set to release alongside the upcoming movie
Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is being developed on the Assassin's Creed engine and is set between the PS2's Sands Of Time and Warrior Within. To be honest, as much as most people want to hate movie tie-in type things, it looks proper amazing.
News Ubisoft Announce A New... Football Game, Looks Kinda Cool
We're huge fans of the recent entries in the FIFA franchise
So good are those games, we never really imagined anyone else going out and making a new football game (yes, This Is Football is dead folks). But man, something about the ridiculous melodrama in this trailer has us moderately excited. (Oh, before we forget, the game's called Pure Football).
News Splinter Cell's Almost Probably (More Like Definitely) Coming To PS3
Ubisoft's Max Beland has hinted what we all assumed, Splinter Cell is coming to the Playstation 3 at some point in the near future
Whether it'll be Splinter Cell: Conviction or not - Beland ain't so sure. But he definitely thinks Splinter Cell is coming to the PS3 at some point.I joined Splinter Cell after the exclusivity deal with Microsoft had...
News Playstation Motion Controller "Could Work Fantastic" With Red Steel 2
The first Red Steel game on Nintendo Wii was a bit of disappointment
The follow-up looks hella awesome. And Ubisoft reckon it "could work fantastically" well on Sony's upcoming Playstation Motion Controller. He told VideoGamesDaily:I think it could work fantastically with the Sony wand, he said. With this kind of game you need a...
News Here's Your Assassin's Creed II: Bonfire Of Vanities Trailer
Don't you just love that phrase: "Bonfire Of Vanities"
If someone has used it already, it'd certainly make a fantastic song title. We're thinking some dirty electro-grime trip-hop. Anyway, cool song names aside, Bonfire Of Vanities is the title for the latest Assassin's Creed II DLC, which should hit the PSN tomorrow.
News Assassin's Creed II: Bonfire Of The Vanities Launching On Thursday
Ubisoft has confirmed that the second piece of DLC from Assassin's Creed II, "Bonfire Of The Vanities" will launch this coming Thursday on the Playstation Network
They said as much in a Tweet a little earlier. No word on pricing as yet.
News Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Teaser Is Light On Content, Heavy On Breathy Muttering
Here's your first teaser trailer for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, which was announced for PS3 yesterday
The trailer doesn't say much, although the active-camo revealed at the end of the trailer suggests this is more Future Soldier than Modern Warfare. Which is good.
News Ezio Goes To Rome In Latest Assassin's Creed, Will Feature Multiplayer
Ubisoft's committed to the latest Assassin's Creed including an "innovative" assassination multiplayer mode
Few details were given on the mode, but Ubisoft stated that generally each new title will include multiplayer in some form. Ubisoft would not comment on whether or not they intend to make Assassin's Creed a yearly franchise.
News Playstation 3 One Of Ubisoft's Biggest Earners
Ubisoft has released a breakdown of their Fiscal Year Q3 sales, showing Playstation 3 titles accounting for 30% of revenue earned for the three month period
Europe accounted for 49% of Ubisoft's sales, with the US just behind at 46%. For the nine months starting from April 1 2009, and ending December 31st 2009, the Playstation 3 accounted for 26% of...
News Worry Not: Ghost Recon Future Soldier Is Coming To Playstation 3 Too
Despite being announced on XBOX Live this morning, with no real platforms announced, we kind of assumed Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier would come to the Playstation 3
Ubisoft has just confirmed exactly that via Twitter, announcing the game will launch day and date with the 360 version. So there you have it. The HD twins prevail once again.
News Ubisoft Announce New Ghost Recon Title, "Future Soldier"
Modern Warfare
Future Soldier. Modern Warfare. Future Soldier. Ok game developers, now that Ubisoft has officially announced Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, can you quit with your obsession with, erm, modern warfare? Already this year we're due Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Medal Of Honor, and now "Future Soldier". It's getting...
News The Prince Of Persia Movie Continues To Whet Our Whistle
A new trailer for the upcoming Prince Of Persia movie was shown off at last night's Super Bowl
It continues to look surprisingly amazing. So we take issue with an American being cast as a Brit for the lead role of the Prince Of Persia, but, yo, look at all that sand. Also: Gemma Arterton.
News First Assassin's Creed II DLC Available On The PSN Today
If you're still craving Assassin's Creed II, then Ubisoft would like you to know that the game's first DLC pack, "Battle For Forli" is available on the PSN today
It costs just £3.99/4.99. There's a trailer above. Sadly the DLC won't add any new trophies.
News No Trophies For Assassin's Creed II "Battle Of Forli" DLC; Sales Plummet
Is it shallow to say that our interest in the upcoming Assassin's Creed II DLC, "Battle Of Forli", dropped by about 100% when we read reports of the game being without trophies? Ubisoft gave PS3Trophies the bad news
Boo! The DLC's due this week for like $3.99.
News Multiplayer Headed To Ubisoft's I Am Alive?
A job listing picked out by Blend Games seemingly suggests that multiplayer is headed to Ubisoft's I Am Alive
According to the LinkedIn profile of Ubi's Paul Robinson, the mode is very much being considered. He writes, We are doing some exciting stuff, and if you are a leap mp [multiplayer, yo] designer, drop me a line. The game's due in fiscal...
News Assassin's Creed II DLC To Be Released On January 28th
Ubisoft has Tweeted that the Assassin's Creed II DLC is due to hit the Playstation Store on January 28th (that's next week folks
). It'll cost $3.99. You'll use Leonardo's flying contraption in the Battle Of Forzi which spans six playable memories.
News Just Dance, Gonna Be Ok, Da Da Doo-Doo-Mmmm, Just Dance, Spin That Record Babe...
Come on guys
Dance. After nine weeks, Modern Warfare 2 has finally been knocked off the top of the British sales charts which means — we get to say something interesting in this post for once. Like quoting Lady GaGa lyrics. That's right folks, of all the games to topple Infinity Ward's shooter, the Wii's Just Dance has done the impossible. On red...
News New Assassin's Creed Will Continue Ezio's Story
If you are eager to hear more of Ezio's story, then sweet
You're in luck. If you are waiting for the Assassin's Creed story to go all, "present-day," and become a Nolan North voiced cover-shooter (like it's going to one day!); then shucks, you're out of luck. Ubisoft's confirmed to CVG that the newly announced Assassin's Creed title will...
