UPDATE (11/22, 6:16pm): As it turns out, the Assassin’s Creed Ezio Collection isn’t quite the disaster that this video made it seem. Turns out the animation glitch was also in the original version of Assassin’s Creed II, and the deformed NPC was randomly generated. (Still hilarious, though.) More info here.
The first years of the new millennium brought us the seventh generation of video game consoles, and with that came a whole new family of attractive men and women. With new evolutions, this decade introduced the start of increasingly realistic-looking characters.
A Canadian military garrison has a rush order out for 500 video games, a requisition that a headquarters spokeswoman admitted is "strange."
Last month the worldwide effort to thwart the illegal copying and sales of video games took a turn to the draconian, with a number of publishers introducing new measures that often seemed to impact legitimate gamers as much as pirates.
Assassin's Creed 2 is set in an era of history famous for the creation of beautiful art and master inventions, a fitting backdrop for a game that leaps beyond the achievements of both its predecessor and some other vaunted works.
So the British Board of Film Classification recently revealed that Assassin's Creed II will feature more than three hours of cut scene footage. These aren't the silent film days, of course, so they'll need some a lot of dialogue.
It may not be the iPhone game, but iPhone users can definitely get something of an AC2 fix with the Assassin's Creed 2 Experience iPhone app.
The man in charge of Assassin's Creed II wants to continue his dialogue with you. He's changed his game in some ways you requested. But he still wants to send obsessive collectors a message and struggles with a grand idea.
Patrice Desilets is both the creative director of the Assassin's Creed games and a jovial interviewee eager to advance game design. I thought he'd be troubled that we always stare at video game characters' backs.
With less than two weeks to go before Gamescom kicks off in Cologne, the list of games that will be present and playable continues to grow.
This fall's Assassin's Creed hero isn't just a better killer than his predecessor. He lives in a world in which he can swim, the sun sets and thieves can become allies, the game's executive producer, Jade Raymond, showed Kotaku yesterday.
The clip includes some gameplay, a few very short comments from the panel and a brief interview with the guy responsible for the Assassin's Creed 2 film shorts being produced.
VG247 is reporting that a DS version of Assassin's Creed 2 will be released with the other platform versions on Nov. 20. Amazon's got a product page up about it, too.
As seen on the grass outside Comic-Con.
Assassin's Creed II: Lineage, the short film series inspired by the game, will kick off this holiday, Ubisoft said today.
This first developer diary for upcoming Ubisoft action-title Assassin's Creed 2 gives us a glimpse into the backstory of the main character.
Swimming is something you and I can probably do — and will do more this summer. But swimming has long been an ability less common to video game characters than running, jumping or shooting shotguns. I asked top developers why.
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Assassin's Creed will be out in the US on November 17. But what about Europe? Well, it'll be out in Europe on November 20.
Like any other high-profile (or even mid-profile) game these days, Assassin's Creed 2 will be available in a collector's edition. Let's take a look at what's inside.
