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Release date for all platforms moved to spring 2014 as publisher continues development
Read More »Assassin’s Creed series surpasses 6.6m UK sales
Assassin’s Creed has now sold over 6.6m units in the UK, Ubisoft has told MCV. The publisher revealed the figures ahead of next month’s launch of the latest instalment in the franchise – Black Flag. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is the sixth entry in the series and Ubisoft is …
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'The biggest surprises seem to come from Nintendo'
Read More »Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag release date brought forward
Ubisoft has unexpectedly moved the release date for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag forward on current-gen machines. The game will now land this month on Tuesday October 29th on PS3 and Xbox 360. It had originally been planned to hit those formats on November 1st. The game will still arrive …
Read More »No DLC for Assassin’s Creed IV on Wii U
Ubisoft has revealed a Season pass and range of DLC for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag – none of which will be made available on Wii U. The omission of Nintendo’s machine was confirmed to Kotaku. PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC players, however, will be able to …
Read More »Watch Dogs will look better on Wii U than it does on PS3 or Xbox 360
The creative director of Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch Dogs reckons the Wii U version will be graphically superior to its current-gen counterparts. "I would say the Wii U version is pretty much in between what the current gen is and what the next gen is from a version standpoint," Jonathan Morin …
Read More »Report: Composer claims Far Cry 4 is in development
Far Cry 4 is already in development, at least according to the game’s supposed composer. VG247 reports on a since-edited Lost in the Multiplex interview, in which television and film composer Cliff Martinez states he is working on a video game called Far Cry 4.” Martinez’s video game track record …
Read More »Ubisoft releases new, even more demanding Watch Dogs PC specs
A revised version of the minimum and recommended specs for the PC version of Watch Dogs have been released by Ubisoft. And the fact is that they’re even more demanding than the apparently rubbished list that appeared last week. The Minimum specs require a quad core CPU – specifically either …
Read More »Watch Dogs dev dismisses controversial PC game specs
The ‘leaked’ specs for the PC versions of Watch Dogs that appeared online yesterday were not official, one of the game’s developers has stated. These are not official configs,” graphics technical director Sebastien Viard said on Twitter. The real specs out soon and will be lower than [these] ones.” Much …
Read More »Tom Clancy passes away aged 66
One of modern gaming’s most familiar names has passed away. Tom Clancy, who became known to gamers after lending his name to dozens of military video games, has died at the age of 66. Clancy was of course best known to the wider world as an author of military fiction. …
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