EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: assassinscreed
It’s finally here. The fifth iteration of the venerable Soul Calibur weapons-based fighter is due for release tomorrow in the US and later this week around the rest of the world, and a crushing launch trailer has been released just in time to stoke the excitement for franchise fans.
But that’s not the half of it.
Thanks to a bit of enormous news yesterday, we got to thinking about the fun and addictive nature of sandbox and open-world games, which lead us to this Question of the Day:
What about Grand Theft Auto, and open-world games, do you find most appealing?
Following a round of quick-fire rumours recently, it’s been confirmed that master assassin and Assassin’s Creed protagonist Ezio Auditore will be present and playable in Namco Bandai’s upcoming fighter, Soul Calibur V.
Get your first glimpses of the Ubisoft’s character in Soul Calibur V as he slashes, stabs and shoots other fighters on the stage of history:
The Assassin’s Creed series has exploded since the release of the first game in 2007, and as it continued to sell millions of copies over subsequent game releases through to the end of 2010 across all platforms, the franchise has outgrown its digital interactive form and spawned comic books, novels, a series of live action short story videos, an upcoming animated short film and an extensive encyclopaedia.
Ahead of the release of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and the Assassin’s Creed: Embers animated film on November 15th, we got to speak to ‘transmedia development director’ at Ubisoft, Julien Cuny, where we found out about the creation of the Assassin’s Creed Encyclopaedia as well as the quality control in place to govern Ubisoft’s ‘transmedia’ approach to the franchise, all while discovering the secrets of Ezio’s final adventure.
This week’s U.S. PlayStation Store update includes no less than seven new downloadable games for PS3, a couple of demos, tons of add-on content and some worthwhile freebies for Plus members.
The big game on this week’s list has to be Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection ($9.99). This is the first time PSN users can get these three arcade classics in one bundle, and MK fanatics are going to relish being able to earn trophies and climb leaderboards while playing their favourite franchise.
The highlights for me this week include two PlayStation Plus exclusives - the God of War: Origins Collection demo and the Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Multiplayer Beta. The latter will only be released on September 2nd so unfortunately I can’t comment on its quality at this point.
Ubisoft and its Facebook friends are keeping up the pace of an on-going information unlocking process leading up to the full reveal of whatever the next Assassin’s Creed game might be – the latest in the series of unlocks is another teaser video.
What’s contained in the video? Another date and visual clue to get all of you internet sleuths going, but it’s getting complicated fast!
The full announcement for Ubisoft’s next game in the Assassin’s Creed series is still quite a ways away if information on the official Facebook page is anything to go by, but until that reveal we’re going to have to remain content with a series of videos the publisher has been releasing to further tease and entice us.
This third video was recently unlocked and contains a bit more bare information than the previous two teasers, and even includes a possible date relating to events in the Assassin’s Creed timeline – 24.06.1459.
Unfortunately that date doesn’t match up with this year’s E3 where we’ll most definitely discover more information about the game (E3 takes place a couple weeks before… here in 2011, at least), so perhaps a little digging will reveal what may have happened on this date.
There was a bunch of activity towards the end of last week regarding an upcoming reveal for the next entry to the highly successful (and overall excellent) series of open-world action/stealth game from Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed, but unfortunately, at the time, there wasn’t a whole lot of information to go on.
More recently, Ubisoft has asked Assassin’s Creed fans to help the publisher reveal this next game, essentially confirming reports that an announcement is due very soon!
In a recent earnings call, Ubisoft revealed that the most recent entry to the incredibly successful Assassin’s Creed franchise, Brotherhood, has managed to rack up worldwide sales approaching seven million copies since its release in November 2010, while the next iteration of the franchise is set to be announced in less than three month’s time.
[Update] Added two new videos featuring Jade Raymond giving viewers a proper tour of Ubisoft Toronto. Find ‘em below. [End of Update]
Something big and important is afoot at Ubisoft’s ‘new’ game development studio in Toronto, and if you’re a fan of the Splinter Cell series, then it’s time to get excited!
In a video featurette looking at what’s going on under the roof of Ubisoft’s Toronto offices, studio manager Jade Raymond (producer of Assassin’s Creed I and II) takes us on a short tour of the building and reveals that not only are there already 83 employees working on games, but that one of the project currently underway is the next iteration of Ubisoft’s stealth action adventure series, Splinter Cell 6
Find out about other goings-on at the Ubisoft Torontoy studio and get further progress updates from Raymond and the team with the featurette below:
In a bit of a shocking turn of events (if you paid no attention to the rumours), Patrice Désilets, a Ubisoft stalwart of 13 years and creative director on Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed II, has joined THQ and will be in charge of staffing up the publisher’s newly announced Montreal studio.
This news follows Désilets’s departure from Ubisoft earlier this year, just before E3 week.
Earlier today, South African videogame distributor Megarom dropped El33tonline an email which contained the following message:
“You may not know it but everyone can make it big in Hollywood… with a glimpse of cruelty!”.
Along with this mysterious message, we got three movie-style posters:
You can view larger versions of each poster below:
April Fool’s Day is usually a torrid, confusing time for Mother Internet and her children, and for those that can afford to do so, it’s a good opportunity to stay away from the craziness and nonsense that gets passed around.
Sometimes, however, little gems will emerge on April 1st that otherwise may not have come to be - little projects that are days, weeks and sometimes even months in the making come to light to bring a smile to your face.
This latest video, a collaboration between Ubisoft and Kojima Productions, is such a gem, and should be watched by all fans of Assassin’s Creed and Metal Gear Solid - it’s truly awesome and properly hilarious!
During Ubisoft’s recent fiscal third quarter investors call, it was mentioned that the heretofore mysterious follow-up to Assassin’s Creed II would be set in Rome, which sets Ezio up nicely (who will remain this game’s protagonist) to strike at the heart of the Templar’s headquarters in the city.
Major Nelson has been kind enough to let us in on what the next few weeks of content on the ‘ole Xbox LIVE Marketplace are going to look like, complete with release dates and MS Points values attached, so head on down below to see what’s in store for the store for the foreseeable future:
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