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PC

South Park’s Main Fight Move Is Appropriately Juvenile

It’s the same old story with a totally South Park twist. The elves versus the humans. Stan and Kyle versus Cartman.

In Real Life

One Developer Sums Up Game Design In A Vulgar Six Seconds

Lots of moving parts and distinct disciplines go into making a single video game. There’s level design and AI programming and physics simulation and art direction and writing and on and on.

In Real Life

The Open (And Mobile) World Of Watch Dogs

Watch Dogs may be the most anticipated game of the year and with good reason. I haven’t seen a showing of this game — a demo, a trailer, anything – that didn’t reinforce the game’s potential for greatness. At E3 we sat down for a demo with the game. Then, afterwards, we saw a demo that we couldn’t record. Both were among my highlights of E3.

15 June 2013

PC

The Present Day Part Of Assassin’s Creed IV Is A First-Person Adventure

Ubisoft likes to keep the modern parts of its Assassin’s Creed games as secret as possible. But at E3, they revealed a few details for the present day part of ACIV: Black Flag. For starters, you’re the main character.

PC

Ubisoft Has Three Assassin’s Creeds In Development, Vows Innovation

Ubisoft is committed to making a new Assassin’s Creed game every year and is determined not to see the series collapse from franchise fatigue. How?

14 June 2013

PlayStation

This Watch Dogs Demo Shows How Friends’ Mobile Devices Will Help You

About seven minutes of Watch Dogs gets shown at this PlayStation-hosted preview of Ubisoft’s upcoming hacker stealth game. Driving, combat and security subversion are all on display here, alone with a quick look at how mobile app will connect to the console version of the game. Makes sense, no?

News

Why Watch Dogs Is A Lot Like Dark Souls

I’ve just exited the halls of E3 for the final time in 2013 and one of the very last games I saw at the show was Watch Dogs. Up until now we’ve mostly seen very restricted, set-piece style missions from Watch Dogs. That’s all well and good but we’ve been constantly told that Watch Dogs is an open world game with multiple dynamic systems — today we got proof.

PlayStation

Assassin’s Creed’s Only Heroine Is Playable In Assassin’s Creed IV

Ubisoft has confirmed reports that Aveline — the bi-racial heroine from Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation — will be jumping from the PlayStation Vita to the PS3 and PS4. The series’ lone female protagonist will be the focus of three missions that will be exclusive to PlayStation platforms.

13 June 2013

Mobile

The Division’s Most Interesting Idea Is Happening On An iPad

The neatest thing about Ubisoft’s just-revealed The Division wasn’t the graphics (they’re fine) or the guns (they shoot stuff) or even the intelligent grenades (they roll around and blow up). It was the way the game works with an iPad.

PC

Watch Dogs’ Multiplayer Lets You Screw With Other Player’s Good Times

So far, there’ve only been the tiniest of glimpses at the multiplayer component for Ubisoft’s upcoming techno/open-world game. Sure, you can hack into other people’s games but how deep does that go?

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