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MCV takes a look at the best accessories heading to UK retail. This week, we say Halo to a new wireless gaming mouse and check out a killer Assassin’s Creed headset bundle Limited Edition Halo Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 While Halo: The Master Chief Collection may not currently be set …
Read More »Ubisoft wants Mega Bloks to sell Assassin’s Creed brand to kids
A string of 18-rated games front the Assassin’s Creed brand, but Ubisoft wants to explore ways to sell the franchise to children. That’s according to the publisher’s international brand manager Yannick Spagna, who Games Industry reports told the GameON Finance conference in Toronto that licensing deals can achieve things traditional …
Read More »Patrice Désilets opens new studio Panache Digital Games
Assassin's Creed creator reveals first project since leaving Ubisoft
Read More »Assassin’s Creed: Unity DLC bundled free with… shaving gel
Ubisoft has brokered a new deal to extend the brand reach of its lucrative Assassin’s Creed franchise… to the bathroom. The Facebook page of Edge shaving gel, which is made by the folk who make Energizer batteries, pictures three limited edition cans. Each carries some Assassin’s Creed decoration and includes …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Michael Hampden, lead designer of Assassin’s Creed: Rogue
Assassin's Creed prepares to drop a Marvel 'Phase Two' style change-up on us with Unity, but its final current-gen installation is every bit as big as its contemporaries
Read More »VIDEO: Localising blockbusters for Latin America
Ubisoft and Synthesis offer a behind-the-scenes look at creating Mexican Spanish versions of Assassin's Creed and Far Cry
Read More »Ubisoft Toronto founder Jade Raymond leaves company
Jade Raymond, founder of Ubisoft Toronto and producer of its Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs and Splinter Cell games, among others, has left the company. During her time at Ubisoft, Raymond was producer on the first Assassin’s Creed from 2004 to 2007, going on to serve as executive producer on the …
Read More »Ubisoft: ‘We do not constrain our games’
Publisher moves to quell concerns about Assassin's Creed resolutions following misunderstood statement earlier this week
Read More »"Let’s be clear up front – Ubisoft does not constrain its games"
Ubisoft has released a fourth statement that it hopes will put to bed a week’s worth of headlines concerning the display resolution of Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Let’s be clear up front – Ubisoft does not constrain its games,” senior communications manager Gary Steinman said. We would not limit a game’s …
Read More »Does Ubisoft have Rockstar on the run?
Alex Ward posits that the Watch Dogs firm is a new challenger in the realm of open world games
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