Velvet Assassin Review: Lie Back And Think Of England

Velvet Assassin is a stealth action game that’s loosely based on the real-life World War II Allied secret agent, Violette Szabo, who was captured and later executed by the Nazis.


May 9, 2009

Frankenreview: Velvet Assassin

Stealthy meets sexy in Velvet Assassin, Replay Studios’ World War II stealth action title based on the true story of female Allied secret agent Violette Szabo.


April 23, 2009

Velvet Assassin Celebrates Gold Status With New Screens

Southpeak Games has announced that Velvet Assassin, as every single game before it, has gone gold. The publisher celebrates this accomplishment with new screens, including one of heroine Summer Violette stabbin’ Nazis in the chest.


April 7, 2009

‘Young’ Velvet Assassin Trailer Feels Old, Sounds Awful

If you watch the new extended trailer for Velvet Assassin and feel a strange sense of deja-vu, there’s a reason for that. Sadly, that reason doesn’t make the trailer any better.


March 17, 2009

Velvet Assassin Trailer Evokes Disturbing Mental Picture

What was presumably meant to be a sexy and inspiring trailer for Replay Studio’s Velvet Assassin instead manages to bring to mind the disturbing image of Sir Winston Churchill in a bloody nightie.


March 16, 2009
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Why Fallout 3′s Drugs Were Bad, But Velvet Assassin’s Are OK

Kotaku AU

Fallout 3 had morphine in it. Got banned for it. Velvet Assassin has morphine in it. Got an MA15+ for it. So how does that work?


March 5, 2009
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Velvet Assassin Gets Away With Morphine In Austrialia

THQ and SouthPeak convinced Australia that the ubiquitous use of morphine in a World War II game is historically accurate — scoring an MA 15+ rating.


February 11, 2009
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Godfather II Gets April Release

Godfather II, originally set to hit stores around the same time as Killzone 2, Halo Wars and Street Fighter IV, is now headed for stores on April 7 in North America and and April 10 in Europe.


February 10, 2009

Velvet Assassin Preview: Metal Gear Lite

Southpeak had their very own Violette Summer on hand to pose for pictures with fans. But, I was at their booth to check out their game, not the babe.


February 7, 2009
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Velvet Assassin Gets the Aeon Flux Treatment

Peter Chung, creator of the avant garde sci-fi cartoon Aeon Flux, is signed up with SouthPeak Games to pen a 15-page Velvet Assassin digital graphic novel.