Watch Dogs creates an open-world morality (preview)
We've roamed plenty of open worlds, but Watch Dogs gives you the freedom to be any kind of vigilante you want to be ... and the information to make those choices wisely.
We've roamed plenty of open worlds, but Watch Dogs gives you the freedom to be any kind of vigilante you want to be ... and the information to make those choices wisely.
Desilets is out. The status of his 1666 game is unknown.
A Revolutionary War backdrop and all-new game modes give Assassin's Creed 3 serious lift, but too many technical and design flaws keep it chained firmly to the ground.
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation's boring, gimmicky, uninspired adventure makes it an unnecessary side story.
Alex Hutchinson is the creative director on Assassin’s Creed III. The game is one of the biggest video games of the year, and Hutchinson’s job is to make sure that the creative vision of the game captures the imagination of …
At the premiere event for Assassin's Creed III, freshly minted franchise Creative Director Alex Hutchinson took a break from unveiling a game we want more of to pull back the curtain slightly on a game that will never be. "You tend to play the first draft of a video game," says Hutchinson, but he intends to deliver something a few revisions down the line. By way of proof, he showed us a four things that didn't survive the first round of edits.
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is the fourth title in Ubisoft’s award-winning, multi-platinum franchise. Developed by multiple internal studios around the globe and spanning more than 400 individual team members, the Assassin’s Creed series needs to sell better than most in order …
Assassin’s Creed Revelations takes a lot of creative risks, considering it is the fourth installment in a video game series that has sold more than 30 million copies for French game publisher Ubisoft. I’ve had a good look at part …
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The fall blockbuster video game …
Ubisoft, the third-largest video game publisher in the U.S. market, said today that it scored a big hit with the third installment of its Assassin’s Creed series, shipping more than 6.5 million copies of the latest game. That means the …
We’ve unveiled VentureBeat’s picks for the 10 best video games of the holiday season. And this year’s picks really show how much the $20 million U.S. gaming market has changed in the past year. The growing influence of social networks …
Ubisoft, the big French video game company, is late to the social and iPhone game party. But it has come up with what it hopes will be a smart strategy to deeply integrate its console, Facebook, and iPhone games.
Chris …