Assassin's Creed Ship Has Its Timbers Shivered
Today on Highlight Reel we have crossbow shots, a child’s love, patient Rocket League plays, magic boats and much more!
Reminder: Assassin's Creed IV Is Great
I’ve been playing a lot of Assassin’s Creed lately. First Unity then Rogue, I’ve since moved onto (or returned to) Assassin’s Creed IV, and playing all three in quick succession has reminded me of one thing: Black Flag is a very good video game, better than most people gave it credit for when it was first released.
Even Fatalities Can't Shut Scorpion Up
On today’s Highlight Reel we have loud fatalities, GTA V short films, vanishing Jackdaws and much more!
One Of The Weirdest PC Performance Tweaks I’ve Seen In A While
This past weekend, I decided to play some Assassin’s Creed IV on PC. I don’t know why, I just did. Whatever. That’s not the point of this story.
Assassin's Creed games revel in meticulous recreations of historical eras. So let's see actual historians discuss the times two newer AC entries were set in. In this video, YouTube series History Respawned takes a look at Liberation and Freedom Cry as reflections of black life in the 18th Century slavery system.
A Closer Look At How Three Assassin's Creed Games Have Handled Slavery
Slavery in the Transatlantic of the 1700s was a complex, interconnected network of financial systems, social engineering and psychological repercussions. The Assassin's Creed video games that have dealt with it head-on made good use of that subject matter but also stumbled in particularly clumsy ways. "Collecting…
​Soon You Can Play Assassin's Creed IV's Freedom Cry Without AC IV
Starting this month, PS3 and PS4 owners won't need to own the full version of Assassin's Creed IV to play its excellent Freedom Cry DLC. Ubisoft's just announced that they're releasing the Adéwalé-focused add-on as its own standalone release on February 18th. Make fun of the Black History Month timing all you want,…
23 More Illuminating Hours With Assassin's Creed IV
When a new year starts, I go back and finish the previous year's Assassin's Creed. I spent early 2013 rediscovering AC III. I've rung in 2014 by playing 23 more hours of Assassin's Creed IV. I have some more thoughts about this one...
A Nice Assassin's Creed IV Moment That I Didn't Expect
As I continued my new year's tradition of playing the rest of the previous year's Assassin's Creed, I finally played the PS3/PS4/PC-only missions of ACIV. Good timing, if I dare say so.
It Took Three Months To Find An Assassin's Creed IV Easter Egg
In November, Assassin's Creed IV writer Darby McDevitt put out a challenge on Twitter:
Did anyone actually choose Uplay? The "Thank you for choosing Uplay" message that pops up every time a game is launched from within Ubisoft's game control service gets funnier every time I see it. Redditor Purkle agrees.
​Interrupting Cow Is Easily My Favorite Assassin's Creed IV Glitch
Did you know cows like playing checkers? Apparently, they do.
​Taking Down a Slave Ship in Assassin's Creed IV's DLC Isn't Easy
Boarding a slave ship and liberating its human cargo is probably the most satisfying thing you can do in the new Freedom Cry DLC for Assassin's Creed IV. It's also one of the toughest. Take a look at how this naval battle to free slaves almost ended in tears.
The Beautiful Lies Of Assassin's Creed IV's Sea Shanties
This is not the year of Luigi. That's a marketing ploy. It's really the year of the sea shanty, and its triumphant return into the wider public (well, gaming at least) consciousness.
A Game That Showed Me My Own Black History
The newest chapter of the Assassin's Creed series gives me some of the things I've always wanted in a video game: a heroic fantasy that lets me control a warrior fighting against slavery. Part of it happens in Haiti, where my parents were born. Characters talk in Antillean Kreyol, the mosaic tongue made of French…
Assassin's Creed IV's Fancy New Smoke Will Probably Get You Killed
The latest patch for Assassin's Creed IV on PC added support for some fancy PhysX particle effects, which includes smoke. Lots of smoke.
Assassin's Creed IV's Freedom Cry Add-On Is the Good Kind of DLC
People like to rag on downloadable content. It's a boondoggle, detractors say. A crass way to get extra cash for a chunk of a game that should've just been included on the disk. That's true in many cases. But Assassin's Creed IV: Freedom Cry is the better brand of add-on, one where developers' experimentation with the…
Assassin’s Creed IV’s DLC Offers a Very Different Kind of Rebellion
All those islands in the Caribbean that are plush vacation spots now? They used to be colonies, outposts for imperial powers that were replete with inhumane slave labor. Some of these places exploded—sometimes into self-rule—with violent uprisings and rebellions. The new add-on—out tomorrow—for Assassin's Creed IV:…
If Assassin's Creed IV Was A Disney Cartoon...
Finish that sentence however you want, though I'd recommend "...I would watch the crap out of it".
