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Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops is today celebrating its second week at No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. In doing so it successfully fends off the advances of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and EA’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, which claim second and third place …

The latest release in the Assassin’s Creed saga – which is doing brilliantly with critics – has sparked off yet another price war on the UK High Street. The headline price comes from HMV, which is selling the game for just 2.99 when customers trade-in a copy of last week’s …

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has received rave reviews, making it one of the most critically claimed games available this Christmas. At the time of writing, the game boasts a Metacritic average of 91 per cent for the PS3 edition and 90 for the Xbox 360 version – currently outranking all …

Sales for the first six months of the 2010-11 financial year, a period ending September 30th, came to €260m – up 56.7% (or 46.0% taking into account exchange rate variance) on the €166m recorded for the same period last year. Gross profit stood at €146.2m. Losses did increase overall – …

Develop looks at four companies at the heart of the Québec development cluster

Bookmaker Paddy Power has opened the betting on the race to be the UK’s official Christmas No.1 video game, and the early favourite is perhaps not surprisingly Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops. The company is currently offering odds of 1/6 on the game. So far it has only released …

The first DLC released for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood will be exclusively available on PS3. Ubisoft announced that Sony fans will be able to get their hands on additional quests in a downloadable pack entitled the Copernicus Conspiracy. The DLC will be available for free on PSN on November 19th – …

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood doesn’t just mark the return of Ubi’s tentpole series next month – it sees the publisher renew efforts around online gaming. As well as featuring co-op and versus multiplayer, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says the game helps the firm beef up its strategy around map packs and …

Only 40 per cent of players have finished Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed II. That’s according to stats tracked by the publisher’s Uplay online service and was revealed to Joystiq by Gaelec Simard, mission director for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. Despite the fact that 60 per cent of players have yet …

Publisher THQ has announced that Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Dsilets is to head up its new owned development studio in Montreal. Dsilets’ previous credits also include Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. He will take charge of the new studio in summer of next year and will be tasked …