Stab club Assassin’s Creed has become a staple of the gaming calendar. It’s November, which means we get a new game featuring a man (or woman) in a cowl, who loves to stab bad people. And good people. And anyone else who gets in the way. As such, the series …
Read More »6 games that are secretly BioShock: Infinite prequels
Welcome to the city, there are spoilers here “There is always a lighthouse, there’s always a man, there’s always a city.” According to BioShock Infinite, these are the constants in an infinite universe of variables. In every world the cycle will repeat in one form or another, and there will …
Read More »Why Far Cry 3 is the best Assassins Creed of 2012
Great artists steal At the tail end of 2012, Ubisoft Montreal rolled out two of the year’s biggest games: Assassin’s Creed III, and Far Cry 3. One was a beautiful free-roaming adventure filled with climbing, stabbing, hunting and exploration, with an engaging main character who leads a downtrodden people in …
Read More »The best hooded characters in video games. Because Assassins Creed III and Halloween
Its no co-incidence that good is just one letter away from hood Hoods are brilliant, as our stabby chum Altair up there is ably demonstrating. So, to celebrate the release of Assassins Creed III, we thought it was time we damn well looked back through the hooded annals to bring …
Read More »Assassins Creed III doubles Ubisofts pre-order record
Ubisoft is very pleased with its weird little alternative-history open-world stealth series. Why? Because Assassin’s Creed III has snagged more than twice the pre-orders of its previous record holder (which was Assassin’s Creed Revelations) and the franchise has sold more than 40 million copies since it began in 2007. Ubisoft …
Read More »Assassins Creed III: Hands-on with four naval missions. Definitely more full-sail than half-mast
After seeing the E3 reveal of Assassin’s Creed III (opens in new tab)’s cannontastic ship-based combat, our reaction was simple. It looked stunning. And it turns out, having now played four of the game’s nautical missions, that our suspicions were correct. It is stunning. Playing through a section set in …
Read More »Assassins Creed 3 Limited Edition details, Fourth of July trailer released
Today, Ubisoft released a bunch of new information about the impending release of Assassin’s Creed III (coming October 30) alongside a brand new trailer which aims to show a somewhat different side of the AC series. While the trailer is cool, we’re most interested in the Limited Edition goodies, because …
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