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Platform PS Vita Publisher Ubisoft Developer Ubisoft Sofia Release Date 10/30/2012

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Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation review: the price of chains

By Philip Kollar on Oct 31, 2012 10.31.12

Liberation's story asks for more heavy lifting than the game is able to provide Liberation's core storyline follows series newcomer Aveline de Grandpré, a female assassin of mixed heritage whose home is the setting of a power struggle between the Templars and the Assassins. Liberation takes the sci-fi framework of previous Assassin's Creed games a step further by presenting the game itself — the one you're playing — as propaganda software produced by a Templar organization within the Assassin's Creed universe. The "real" history of that universe is twisted in the game in order to portray the Templars as the good guys. So Liberation is a virtual representation of a virtual representation of a corrupted retelling of history. With so many layers of abstraction at work, the...

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Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation wins Writers Guild Award

By Emily Gera on Feb 18, 2013 02.18.13

Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation is the winner of Outstanding Achievement in Video Game Writing, as awarded by the Writers Guild of America, the American association announced. The Ubisoft Sofia-developed title beat out five other nominees including 007 Legends, Assassin's Creed 3, Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, Halo 4 and Uncharted: Golden Abyss. Writer Jill Murray, who wrote the script alongside co-writer Richard Farrese, tweeted a picture of their award, writing: "Holy crap, we won the Writers Guild of America award for game writing. This actually just happened." Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation introduced the series' first ever female protagonist, Aveline de Grandpre. However, despite the celebration of the game's writing, the title scored a six out of 10 from Polygon in a...

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Ubisoft CFO urges developers to not 'discount' the Vita, pleased with AC3: Liberation sales

By Griffin McElroy on Feb 07, 2013 02.07.13

Ubisoft chief financial officer Alain Martinez said that the publisher was pleased with the performance of the PS Vita-exclusive Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation in an investor conference call held earlier today. Despite the fact that the title wasn't a blockbuster for the company compared to its successful console titles, Martinez said the company was "pretty happy" with how Liberation performed. He also urged developers not to count the Vita out just yet as a potential platform for their games. "Regarding the Vita, what I can say is last year ... we reduced the number of launches, but actually, we did pretty well on Assassin's Creed PS Vita," Martinez said. "We are close to 600,000 units, so it's a good achievement, we are pretty happy with this figure. So, I wouldn't discount the PS...

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Assassin's Creed 3, 007 Legends among games nominated for 2013 Writers Guild Awards

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 16, 2013 01.16.13

Assassin's Creed 3 and 007 Legends are among the candidates for the 2013 Videogame Writing Award from the Writers Guild of America, the nominees for which were announced today. Both Assassin's Creed 3 and its PlayStation Vita spin-off, Liberation, were honored with nods from the WGA. Liberation wasn't the only Vita game nominated for the award — Uncharted: Golden Abyss was also selected. Rounding out the list of six are Halo 4 and Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two. Here's the full list of games, along with their publishers and credited writers: 007 Legends, Written By Bruce Feirstein; Activision Assassin's Creed 3, Story By Alex Hutchinson, Corey May, Matt Turner; Multiplayer Story By Richard Farrese, Jeffrey Yohalem; Lead Scriptwriter Corey May; Scriptwriter Nicholas Grimwood,...

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Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation bug traps users in the Animus, corrupts saves

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Nov 08, 2012 11.08.12

A bug in Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation corrupts players' save files and traps them in loading screens, according to a thread on publisher Ubisoft's official forums. Players are reporting getting stuck in the Animus loading screen while trying to boot up, and are unable to re-enter the game. A similar time-freezing bug has been reported on the GameFaqs forums, with players losing progress after being forced to restart without saving. "Sorry for the problems you are having," Ubisoft forum manager "Mr_Shade" responded to the thread. "Please do contact Ubisoft support directly — they can help solve the issue — or forward details to the team working on it!" Polygon has reached out for Ubisoft regarding its plans to correct this bug, and will update this story with more information as...

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Ubisoft historian and writer explain Assassin's Creed 3's history, recommend reading

By Dave Tach on Oct 29, 2012 10.29.12

In a Q&A published alongside a series of Assassin's Creed 3 videos on Amazon, Ubisoft's team historian, Maxime Durand, and Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation writer Matt Turner discuss the texts they used to bring historical context to the games and recommend further reading. "Opinions of what was going on in the colonies before, during and after the Revolution were extremely diverse," Turner told Amazon. "It was important for us to represent as many differing opinions as we could throughout the story as well as allow those ideas to change as pivotal moments came and went. One strategy for achieving that was representing all the different classes, from the governors, to the Colonial elite to the common man and below. We wanted to allow each strata the ability to express their views which...

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Assassin's Creed 3 midnight pick-ups canceled at all northeast GameStop stores

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Oct 29, 2012 10.29.12

Retailer GameStop has canceled all midnight pick-up events tonight for Assassin's Creed 3 and Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation at its northeast locations in light of Hurricane Sandy, reports Kotaku. "Our top priority is the safety of our employees and customers," a representative for GameStop told Kotaku. "In compliance with directives issued by state and local authorities, stores in the path of the storm will remain closed until it is safe to re-open and midnight openings for Assassin's Creed 3 have been cancelled in the northeast." GameStop encourages those who are planning to pick up the games this week to check with local stores individually regarding re-opening plans.

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PlayStation VP of marketing says Sony focusing on PlayStation Plus and PS3, Vita content

By Samit Sarkar on Oct 29, 2012 10.29.12

Sony plans to focus on PlayStation Plus as well as the PlayStation 3's and PlayStation Vita's content libraries in holiday-season marketing, said John Koller, the company's vice president of marketing for consoles and handhelds, in an interview with GamesIndustry International. The PlayStation 3 may lack heavy-hitting exclusives on the level of Halo 4 this year. But Koller touted the big picture, focusing on the console's existing library of top-tier games and the ones due out in 2013. "You're buying into a system that has not only a great holiday ahead of it," he said, "but also a great future ahead of it over the next few years" — a future including games such as Naughty Dog's The Last of Us and Quantic Dream's Beyond: Two Souls. "This isn't going to be a system that people come...

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Assassin's Creed 3 Hong Kong bundle comes with hoodie and exclusive DLC

By Tracey Lien on Oct 21, 2012 10.21.12

The PS3's Assassin's Creed 3 and the PlayStation Vita's Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation will be getting hardware bundles when they release in Hong Kong on Oct. 31, Siliconera reports. The PlayStation 3 bundle will come with a charcoal black PlayStation 3 with a 500 GB HD and an English copy of Assassin's Creed 3, exclusive multiplayer DLC, and an Assassin's Creed 3 hoodie. The PlayStation Vita bundle will come with a PlayStation Vita (Wi-Fi model) and a copy of Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation, special downloadable content, and a limited edition Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation protection film. Owning Assassin's Creed 3 on PS3 will also unlock an exclusive mission in Liberation where players will be able to play as Connor and gain access to Connor's Tomahawk weapon. Players will also get...

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Aveline of Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation navigates her surroundings through changing personas

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Oct 17, 2012 10.17.12

Creole assassin Aveline of Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation can manipulate the perceptions of others through the Persona System, navigating the community of 18th century New Orleans through using different disguises, according to a post on the PlayStation Blog Aveline can don three separate and very different guises: that of a lady, a slave, or an assassin. Aveline retains the higher-class privileges of her French father's status; this combined with traits inherited from her African mother allow her to fluidly slip between social strata. As a slave dressed in peasant's clothing, Aveline can easily escape detection as most people will overlook her presence. She can also rile her fellow slaves to cause a public scene, although she cannot use her assassin weapons in this guise. In the...

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Over 40 PSOne Classics added to Vita store in PSN update

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Oct 02, 2012 10.02.12

A large update to the PlayStation Store today adds pre-orders for Assassin's Creed 3, two full day-one downloadable titles, and 40 PSOne Classics compatible with the PlayStation Vita. Many of the newly-added PSOne Classics, including Legend of Mana and Chrono Cross, did not work with the transfer workaround detailed by industrious Vita owners frustrated at the small number of Classics available for Vita in North America: Breath of Fire IV Chrono Cross Chrono Trigger Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness Darkstalkers Darkstalkers 3 Dino Crisis Dino Crisis 2 Fighting Force Final Fantast VI Final Fantasy IX Final Fantasy Origins Final Fantasy Tactics Final Fantasy VIII Gex Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko Legend of Mana Mega Man 3 Mega Man Mega Man 2 Mega Man 4 Parasite Eve P...

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  • PlayStation Vita
    • Released 10/30/2012
    • Publisher Ubisoft
    • Developer Ubisoft Sofia
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