Ubisoft has released a PS4 and Xbox One version of one of my favourite Assassin's Creed games today. Back in late 2014, I raved about the marvellous Assassin's Creed Rogue. Then, I'd recommend it to anyone. Today? It depends.

It's not often that a brick-and-mortar retailer captures your attention in the middle of a gargantuan Steam sale, but that's how the tide has gone in the last few years. The sales just aren't as good any more -- and the fact that Australians still get slugged in US dollars makes it even less enticing.

But that's the opportunity EB are taking up right now, with a end of financial year sale. There's plenty of games that priced at surprisingly reasonable levels.

It's been happening for a while and people should have learned to expect it, but developers are still pulling the age-old trick of raising prices right before a sale, and it's a bloody shameful practice.

Video: Assassin's Creed Rogue didn't stand a chance when it met an AC obsessive like me. All three game maps cleared after some 36 hours spent playing on my PS3. If you're wondering about that boat in the lower left of the North Atlantic, I got that too.

I have once again returned to an Assassin's Creed game and found great things. Specifically, I have learned a lot about open-world video games, how Ubisoft makes them, and why I love them so much. I must show you.

We three have a habit of disagreeing on...well, almost everything when it comes to Assassin's Creed. So what happens when Kotaku's three AC fanboys sit down with the shortest, least-hyped Assassin's Creed game in years? The unthinkable...

Braveheart, you have some competition. I've been playing my way through Assassin's Creed Rogue on PC, and for the most part have been loving it! I was stopped dead in my tracks by this performance, though, which is wrong on multiple levels.

Assassin's Creed Rogue was released in November 2014 and almost immediately forgotten, which was a shame, since it was pretty good, but also understandable, since Unity was both louder and flashier. Well, the delayed PC release of Rogue is hoping to make up for that.

Video: Assassin's Creed Rogue is coming to PC on March 10, Ubisoft announced today. We really liked the console version, so we're excited. Woo!

The biggest plot twist in Assassin's Creed history is this: Assassin's Creed Rogue, the least-hyped console game in the series, the one we had good reason to think would be bad, is...a very, very good game. It's a must-play for any AC fan.

Last year's Assassin's Creed included references to Watch Dogs. This year's Assassin's Creed Rogue for PS3 and Xbox 360 has a joke about another Ubisoft game, the lovely Child of Light. Check it out, if you don't mind a tiny spoiler about where part of Rogue takes place.

Video: Remember the last-gen Assassin's Creed comes out this week too. Unity's been getting all the hype from Ubisoft, but Rogue looks like it might be improving on the best parts of last year's Black Flag.

Briefly: Assassin's Creed: Rogue is coming to PC in "early 2015", Ubisoft just revealed at the end of a new trailer for the game. Still no word on the availability of new-gen versions of the game.

Video: There's plenty of character explanation, naval battles and acrobatic fighting in the latest Assassin's Creed Rogue video. But most importantly, polar bears!

My problem with the Assassin's Creed games is that I always try to play them like stealth games, and Assassin's Creed is not a very good stealth game. It's a great action game, when it wants to be, but it's just not built for stealth as anything other than a side-mechanic. It's not adaptive enough; stray from the level designer's script for a second and you're screwed, drawn into running or fighting instead.

While the Assassin's Creed Rogue debut trailer was CG heavy, we now (finally!) get a look at Rogue's gameplay -- on land and at sea.

Late last year, Assassin's Creed publisher Ubisoft sent a survey to me and other players of their long-running top franchise. They were asking for our reactions to Assassin's Creed IV and oh, uh, just wondering what we might want to see in future games. Well. They weren't really just wondering.

Hope you like CGI! Straight outta Ubisoft's kitchen, here's the first trailer for Assassin's Creed Rogue, which is now officially official and will be out on November 11 for last-gen platforms.