I expect the life of the average person in ninth-century England was a lot tougher than the fantastical future full of video games we inhabit more than a millennium later. Well, Ubisoft and Capcom have teamed up to make the lives of digital peasants even harder, by shoving some Monster Hunter World themed gubbins into Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. Have a watch of the trailer below to see just how bizarre this crossover is.
]]>As part of their 35th birthday celebrations, Ubisoft are now giving away the Assassin's Creed Chronicles trilogy free for keepsies on PC. You have until Friday to claim your copies of the spin-offs, which converted AssCreed's sneak-o-murdering into 2.5D side-scrolling platformers. They told stories of three different assassins in China, India, and Russia across several hundred years, with art styles inspired by their setting. And right now they're free.
]]>If the thought of Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Viking rugby tackles and recruitable cats for your long boat has you frothing for more of Ubisoft's time-travelling murder series, then why not take a stealthy glance at Fanatical's new Build Your Own Assassin's Creed bundle? There are ten games to pick from in total, all dating back toward the earlier end of the Assassin's Creed series, and you can either pick up three for £8.59 / $10 or five of them for £12.49 / $15. Here's what's on offer.
]]>Stealthy 2.5D side-scrolling platformer Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China is free for keepsies as part of Ubisoft’s Lunar New Year sale right now.
It’s been a while since I played this first entry in the Chronicles trilogy, and it was on a platform forbidden in these halls, but I remember it being quite good. The painterly style is certainly nice to look at, and if you can get into a rhythm of sneaking and stabbing through the levels the fluidity is very satisfying. Nabbing it for nothing sounds like a fine deal to me.
]]>Think what you will about the wildly unconfirmed rumours of the core Assassin's Creed thread skipping 2016 (the RPS line is that they're a fun excuse for daydreaming about revamps), we're certainly seeing some Assassin's Creed games this year. The 2.5D spin-off miniseries Assassin's Creed Chronicles [official site] is one step closer to its conclusion, as ACC India launched last night. We've still got Russia to come.
Oh, and Ubi have shared the first stills from the upcoming Assassin's Creed movie and oh god of course it has a present-day plot strand too.
]]>Assassin's Creed seems to be how Ubisoft ended up channeling their Prince of Persia-y urgings, taking the parkour-o-fighting from the platformer's 3D outings into open worlds with some shite about aliens, but it's sorta looped all the way back around. The spin-off Assassin's Creed Chronicles is subseries of side-on platformers, see. AssCreed Chronicles: China arrived in April, and now Ubi have announced release dates for the other two chapters, India and Russia.
]]>This year's instalment of Assassin's Creed will visit Merrye Olde Victoriane Londone, Ubisoft announced today (and as we knew ages ago), in Assassin's Creed Syndicate [official site]. It's due on PC this autumn with carriages to ride, urchins to milk for information, working class gangs to recruit, and a smattering of comedy cockneyisms.
Come have a look in the nine-minute gameplay trailer, showing off one mission.
]]>You can pencil this one into your calendars: Ubisoft is revealing the newest addition to its historical neck-snapping game series Assassin's Creed on May 12, 5 p.m. U.K. time. This, according to a 26-second teaser trailer appropriately named "New Assassin's Creed Reveal," which sadly doesn't offer much in the way of information just yet.
Watch for yourself below (and you can take a look at the newly-launched teaser site here): From what I can glean, this will likely be the rumoured Assassin's Creed Victory, said to take place in Victorian London.
]]>It's possible that you might, in the fifteen minutes between the release of each successive Assassin's Creed game, forget that Assassin's Creed exists. If that's the case, Ubisoft have a remedy: more Assassin's Creed games. The Assassin's Creed Chronicles is a 3-game 2.5D series that was announced earlier this year and the first is out today. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China [official site] has a launch trailer and it's below.
]]>Those man-murdering Assassins will be larking about in 2.5 dimensions soon, or 3.5 if you count time, as Ubisoft have announced a whole subseries of side-on spin-offs set across different eras.
We already knew about Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China [official site] as Ubi offered it as part of the ill-fated Season Pass for Assassin's Creed Unity. Now they've also announced India and Russia games, as well as an April 22nd release date for China, which will come first.
]]>There is, I have discovered, a certain wonder and horror in learning that Assassin's Creed is coming to a city you know and love. Excitement to see your streets and buildings recreated in shiny history-o-vision for you to explore crashes into dread of how horribly it'll mangle your city's culture and history. The open-world murder simulator series is coming to Victorian London, Ubisoft have quietly sorta confirmed after "target gameplay footage" of something named Assassin's Creed Victory leaked to Kotaku. Imagine the mockney accents.
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