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11 CommentsOrigin's Player Appreciation Sale includes discounts on Dead Space 3, Crysis 3 and many more
By Dave Tach on Mar 19, 2013 03.19.13
Origin's Player Appreciation Sale is live, offering discounts on more than 200 games on EA's storefront over the next week, according to the sale's website. The discounts apply to downloads and packaged games available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows PC, Mac, Wii and Wii U. Front page deals include: Assassin's Creed 3 for $34.99 as a PC download (regularly $49.99) Battlefield 3 Premium Edition for $29.99 (regularly $59.99) Crysis 3 for $29.99 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and on Windows PC as a download or a physical copy (regularly $59.99) Darksiders 2 Deluxe Edition for $18 as a PC download (regularly $59.99) Dead Space 3 for $29.99 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and on Windows PC as a download or a physical copy (regularly $59.99) Hitman: Absolution for $15 as a PC...
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14 CommentsAssassin's Creed franchise pack up to 75 percent off on Steam
By Emily Gera on Mar 18, 2013 03.18.13
The Assassin's Creed franchise pack, containing every PC title in the series, can be purchased on Steam at a 35 percent discount as part of its Ubisoft sale. The full pack includes eight items at a discounted price of $64.99, a drop from its previous $99.99 price tag: Assassin's Creed 3, Assassin's Creed Revelations: The Ancestors Character Pack, Assassin's Creed Revelations: The Lost Archive, Assassin's Creed Revelations: Mediterraneans Traveler Map, Assassin's Creed Revelations, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed 2 Deluxe Edition and Assassin's Creed Director's Cut Edition. Titles can also be purchased individually at discounts of up to 75 percent. Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, Assassin's Creed 2 Deluxe Edition and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood are...
Ubisoft discounts long list of games on PSN, Joe Danger 2 now free for PS Plus members
By Tracey Lien on Mar 11, 2013 03.11.13
Ubisoft is discounting a long lineup of games on the PlayStation Network, taking 30 percent off select titles for all PSN users, and 50 percent off for PlayStation Plus members. The sale begins today and lasts one week only. The following titles — which range from PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Portable versions — will receive discounts: Shaun White Snowboarding (PS3) Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (PS3) Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (PS3) CSI: Fatal Conspiracy (PS3) Michael Jackson The Experience (PS3) The Adventures of TinTin: The Game (PS3) Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands (PS3) Prince of Persia Trilogy (PS3) Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Classic Trilogy HD (PS3) Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (PS3) Tom...
Culture
24 CommentsDanish news channel mistakenly uses Assassin’s Creed photo for Syria report
By Megan Farokhmanesh on Mar 10, 2013 03.10.13
A Danish news channel mistakenly used a photo of the Damascus skyline from Assassin's Creed as part of a report about Syria, Times of Israel reports. The image ran in the background when the show aired on TV2 Feb. 26. A channel employee reportedly found the picture online and mistook it for the real skyline in Damascus, one of the locations featured prominently in the first Assassin's Creed game. You can watch the original video on TV2's website. Assassin's Creed makes its appearance at the 0:16 mark. The channel's head of news, Jacob Nybroe, called the mix-up a "reminder to us all of the importance of verifying the sources of pictures." In 2011, a documentary produced by U.K. TV network ITV made a similar error. The documentary mistook a scene from Arma 2, where the Irish...
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5 CommentsUbisoft bringing Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, Watch Dogs and Splinter Cell: Blacklist to PAX East
By Tracey Lien on Mar 08, 2013 03.08.13
Ubisoft announced today that it will give theater presentations at the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) in Boston for Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag and Watch Dogs, and show off a new demo of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist. The Ubisoft booth at PAX East will showcase some of the studio's digital, PC and iOS titles, and new content for its upcoming console releases will be shown in a fully-enclosed theater. The studio announced that during the exclusive look at Black Flag, attendees will be introduced to the game's hero and also receive a special edition Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag inflatable sword (while supplies last). PAX East will take place in Boston from March 22 to 24.
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10 CommentsAssassin's Creed games discounted 50 percent for Xbox Live Ultimate Game Sale
By Dave Tach on Feb 27, 2013 02.27.13
Several games from Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed series have been discounted 50 percent today as part of Microsoft's Xbox Live Ultimate Game Sale, according to a post on Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb's website. The games and prices include: Assassin's Creed for $9.99 (regularly $19.99) Assassin's Creed 2 for $9.99 (regularly $19.99) Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood for $9.99 (regularly $19.99) Assassin's Creed: Revelations for $14.99 (regularly $29.99) Major Nelson announced last week that Microsoft is discounting over 60 Xbox 360 Games on Demand titles through next Monday, March 4. The deals, which Major Nelson announces every day on Twitter and his blog, began yesterday with Halo content.
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3 CommentsVoting open online for the Game Developers Choice Award
By Dave Tach on Feb 19, 2013 02.19.13
The virtual ballet box is open for the Game Developers Choice Audience Award and accepting nominations today through 5 p.m. ET March 1, according to the official website. Voters need to select a game from a list provided and enter an email address, from which you'll be prompted to confirm your vote. The list of nominated games includes: Assassin's Creed 3 Borderlands 2 Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Dishonored Dust: An Elysian Tail Far Cry 3 Fez FTL: Faster Than Light Gravity Rush Halo 4 Hero Academy Hotline Miami Journey Kid Icarus: Uprising Mark of the Ninja Mass Effect 3 PlanetSide 2 The Room Sound Shapes Spelunky Spec Ops: The Line Trials Evolution The Unfinished Swan Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward The Walking Dead XCOM: Enemy Unknown ZombiU In late...
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37 CommentsAlice: Ubisoft's plan to change storytelling in video games
By Chris Plante on Feb 07, 2013 02.07.13
On one side of the rectangle is a fully-operable motion capture room. Though diminutive compared to the warehouses used in Los Angeles, the room is good enough to capture a one-man performance. The room is currently a bit messy because, we're told, the research and development team is working on some technology that's "hush hush." On the opposite side of Alice is a handful of rooms for sound. One room — a plastic capsule that appears to have been shipped in one piece from Mars — is a sound proof chamber for testing new sounds. Another, which looks like a very small lecture space, is equipped for Hollywood-style final mixing. Corey May And in the middle, flanked by some other experienced writers and producers, is Corey May. Until recently, May penned the story of the...
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7 CommentsAssassin’s Creed devs ditched co-op multiplayer because 'it didn't fit'
By Megan Farokhmanesh on Feb 04, 2013 02.04.13
The original Assassin's Creed included a co-op mode, but it was cut because it clashed with the game's storyline, Assassin's Creed 3 mission director Philippe Bergeron told OXM in a recent interview. "Before we knew about the Desmond story and Animus link, we had a huge co-op component in there," Bergeron said. "But it just became too hard to do: the engine couldn't support it, and then the metaphor we had above it didn't support it. Co-op was one of those big things at the beginning that just didn't make sense in the end." That's because, according to Bergeron, it was impossible to reconcile multiplayer within an ancestor's memories. "Your ancestor lived his life in a certain way, so assuming you had branching storylines, it creates a paradox," Beregon said. "It didn't fit."
Deals
1 CommentBest Buy and Amazon slash prices on Wii U games like ZombiU, Assassin's Creed 3 and more
By Tracey Lien on Jan 07, 2013 01.07.13
Best Buy and Amazon are taking $10-25 off recently released Wii U games like ZombiU, Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition and Wipeout 3 in a price-matching game sale. Dealzon spotted the following deals, all for the Wii U, which are available both at Best Buy and Amazon. Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition — $49.99 (normally $60) ZombiU — $44.99 (normally $60) Assassin's Creed 3 — $44.99 (normally $60) Wipeout 3 — $39.99 (normally $50) Transformers Prime — $39.99 (normally $50) Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (for Wii U, Xbox 360 and PS3) — $34.99 (normally $60) Just Dance 4 — $34.99 (normally $50) ESPN Sports Connection — $34.99 (normally $50) Rise of the Guardians: Video Game — $29.99 (normally $40) Ben 10: Omniverse — $29.99 (normally...
