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Kotaku's 2009 Game Of The Year You might have seen some Assassin’s Creed figures previously. Small, plastic things. They can’t hold switchblade to this 1/6 scale masterpiece.
Game Informer is reporting that Patrice Désilets, the creative director for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, may have left his job just as the publisher is speeding the sequelisation of the very successful franchise.
From Pokémon to Red Dead Redemption, games love to give us things to collect. And as gamers, we love to collect them. But which games do it well? And which do it badly?
Assassin’s Creed II, one of the games of 2009, is to be repackaged and resold as a “complete” edition, bundling the game along with its downloadable content, some of which is good, others, not so good.
It doesn’t mean such games are in development – at most the companies owning these marks have moved to protect them – but new domains for GoldenEye and Driver have been registered by Activision and Ubisoft.
Good news, everyone! Ubisoft says it’s “constantly working to evolve and improve” its new “online services platform” for gamers. Awesome! What’s this “online services platform”? Why, it’s Orwellian b.s. for “DRM.”
I’ve no idea why, but it seems no accident that the week before Easter I went back to start over the original Assassin’s Creed, the only game I’ve ever played that is set in the Holy Land.
Ubisoft apologises to Assassin’s Creed 2 purchasers who found themselves unable to play due to attacks on the verification servers, offering free game downloads in exchange for their forgiveness.
Last year, Briton Ashley Browning gave the world a great set of minimalist video game character faces. Now, Justin Russo gives us minimalist video game… chests.
