Last month, this dear precious boy appeared in Assassin's Creed Ezio Collection and immediately became an internet sensation. It is with great and terrible regret that I now inform you of his passing.

If I have one guilty pleasure series, it's Assassin's Creed. Normally, I'm not one to get excited about yearly releases, let alone broken games. But I've played and mostly enjoyed every game in the series. Recently, I returned to Assassin's Creed II, and, much to my surprise, I realised just how much I've lowered my standards since that game's 2009 release.

Assassin's Creed Lineage, the live-action companion series to the second game, was pretty damn good. Recognising that, last year, Ubisoft released a live-action trailer for ACIII. And now, they've got one for the newest entry in their free-roaming neck-stabbing series. How is it? Let's take a look.

Falling on your crotch is funny, when it's in a video game. So is dying multiple times over for no apparent reason.

The same gentleman who edited all of the scenes from Uncharted into feature-length movies is at it again. He's just stitched together Assassin's Creed II, following the release (sort of) of Assassin's Creed back in November.

Assassin's Creed III is going to introduce a lot of changes to the series. It will feature a new setting, a new time period and a new protagonist. And one of the biggest changes has yet to be fully explored -- the game's soundtrack will be crafted by an entirely new composer.

David Alvarez is a 2D and 3D artist employed at Ubisoft, who has worked on games like Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Revelations and Test Drive Unlimited.

Publisher Ubisoft is continuing its pursuit into higher end, limited edition merch with the arrival of Ubicollectibles, things you may want to invest in if you're a die hard Assassin's Creed or Ghost Recon fan. And you live in Europe.

How much do you love Assassin's Creed's Ezio Auditore da Firenze? Enough to spend $US600 on a statue of the smooth-talking killer?

To hear the creative director of Assassin's Creed Revelations put it in a recent interview with Game Informer, the next Assassin's Creed will actually merit its subtitle. Questions will be answered. What kind of questions?

For those of us who would like to read an Assassin's Creed encyclopaedia, please consider that the people who are making an official one are looking for contributors. Submission rules are detailed at the Ubisoft Workship.

Video games are meant to be an escape from the real world. Yet sometimes, escape be damned, they do such a good job of depicting real locations that the player can't help but want to pack their bags and go travelling.

It's a little late for Assassin's Creed II, we know, but just in time for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood come these Ezio figures by NECA.

MythBusters, the science-fact television show that started life on the Discovery Channel, has put hundreds of rumours, myths and adages to the test. In the future, they will be tackling the fact and fiction of video games.

Nicholas Baker, author of Double Fold and a self-described "nontheistic Quaker", is not a gamer. Before this past fall, he had never touched a video game controller until this past fall.

When Patrice Désilets, the former creative director of Assassin's Creed, abruptly left the game, it left the impression that he was unhappy with Ubisoft's plans to pump out another sequel so soon. Not true, says a friend and colleague.

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?