Tag: assassin’s creed
Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft pledges 500,000 Euros to Notre Dame restoration
The company behind the Assassin’s Creed video games has pledged 500,000 euros (£434,000) to help restore Notre Dame Cathedral. French publisher Ubisoft featured a painstaking recreation of the landmark in its 2014 game Assassin’s Creed Unity, which is set in Paris during the French Revolution. Now, after fire ripped through the 850-year-old building earlier this…
See trailer for Assassin’s Creed Origins: The Hidden Ones DLC
Ubisoft has released the launch trailer for Assassin’s Creed Origins: The Hidden Ones DLC, which comes out today, January 23rd, 2018. This story-driven expansion builds upon the growth of the Brotherhood, taking players four years after the events of Assassin’s Creed Origins, as they clash with an occupying Roman force in a new region of the world, the…
Revealed: Top 15 games franchises of all time
From the simplicity of Alexey Pajitnov’s Tetris to the vivid realms of Pokémon and Lego, every gamer has a franchise they will always be loyal to. Chris Price takes a look at some the biggest and best gaming franchises to date. Whether it’s a first-person shooter, a platform series or a sports game, the development of video games has produced…
Assassin’s Creed Rogue on PC to come with EYE TRACKING gadget
PC players might have been waiting a while for Assassin's Creed: Rogue, but it could be worth the wait as the game is set to come bundled with an intriguing new accessory. Tobii Tech has come up with tech that will track a player's eye movements around the screen as they game - apparently meaning…
Ubisoft releases gigantic patch for Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Good news! One month on and Assassin's Creed: Unity might finally be playable... as long as you download a gigantic patch. According to Eurogamer, the patch for the PS4 version is 6.7GB big. It's almost though the notoriously bugged game wasn't actually finished. Worse still, for Xbox One players the 'patch' clocks in at 40GB…
Has Ubisoft had its “Let Them Eat Cake” moment?
Before 1789, the French monarchy was the very definition of power and excess: Louis XVI wielded virtually absolute power - and answered to no one. Back in those days, there was no difference betweens the national treasury, to pay for things the country needed, and the King's own personal bank account. Needless to say, he…
WATCH: Real-Life Assassin’s Creed in Paris
How did we miss this? Back in July Ubisoft got film maker Devin Graham to create a parkour video in Paris themed around Assassin's Creed and... well, it is stunning. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it is having a bit of a resurgence on social media at the moment due to the release of the game and the…
WATCH: Amazing Assassin’s Creed Unity Rap
Kudos to Ubisoft's marketing team. They've got British rapper Dan Bull to record a rap about the forthcoming Assassin's Creed: Unity and - speaking as someone who likes both rap and the French Revolution (I'm a bit weird, okay?) - its pretty damn awesome. This isn't the first time Ubisoft have employed Bull's skillz -…
WATCH: Assassin’s Creed: Rogue Naval Walkthrough
Last week we learned about Assassin's Creed: Rogue, which is due in November on PS3 and Xbox 360. Last night Ubisoft posted a nine-minute video showing off some of the naval combat we can expect in the game – clearly building on the huge success of last year's Assassin's Creed 4. Don't forget, this isn't the…
Assassin’s Creed: Rogue revealed at last
After months of speculation we finally know a little bit more about the forthcoming Assassin's Creed gamer for Xbox 360 and PS3: What we now know will be called Assassin's Creed: Rogue. Here's Microsoft's description of what the game will entail: "Become the ultimate Assassin Hunter in Assassin’s Creed Rogue. As Shay you’ll hunt those…
