About one year into the making of Assassin’s Creed III, the team at Ubisoft Montreal realized they needed help with their protagonist.
Ubisoft had the concept for a half-Mohawk, half-British assassin named Connor, who would …
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The Fall 2012 Video Game Lineup: 15 Games to Watch
There’s something for everyone on this list of fall 2012′s most anticipated PC, console and handheld video games.
Is Valve Really Getting into the Hardware Biz?
By all accounts — most conspicuously its own — Valve, the PC-centric games developer that brought us games like Half-Life and Portal as well as distribution service Steam, has finally admitted it’s leaping into the PC hardware …
The 10 Best New Skyrim Mods for August 2012
An orbital spacecraft? A way for vampires to finally morph into a cloud of bats and zip around? A bear that can jam like Dick Dale? That and more in our pick of August’s best new Skyrim mods.
Guild Wars 2 Isn’t Just About PvP or World Versus World, Says Producer
Continuing my conversation with Guild Wars 2 executive producer and ArenaNet co-founder and president Mike O’Brien, we cover the game’s action-focused, tactics-minded combat, touch on PvP and World vs. World and the game’s …
World of Warcraft Blocked in Iran: Blizzard (Unexpectedly) Explains Why
Companies. They’ll tell you next to nothing when the chips are down. Ask them if the sky is blue and if the headline story is “Experts Claim ‘Sky Might Be Blue’,” they’ll invariably reply “no comment.”
Someone at World of …
Guild Wars 2 Producer: We’d Turn Off Sales to Preserve the Game Experience
If you’ve had my experience playing Guild Wars 2, you’ve seen few if any in-game hiccups, no random disconnects and no just-trying-to-get-in-the-game server stonewalling. But if you follow online discussion groups, you’ve …
Guild Wars 2 Sales: One Million Pre-Served, Record 400,000 Playing at Once
Guild Wars 2 is finally here! Or wait, wasn’t it already here three days ago? And…okay, hold on a second, didn’t it somehow launch just yesterday, too?
Guild Wars 2: It’s the Pinball Machine of MMOs
Guild Wars 2 is one of those rare games that knocks your life off-kilter like a meteoroid banging into a satellite. That’s how it’s been for me, anyway. I knew it was coming, but, fool that I am, wasn’t paying attention. I’d …
Dark Souls for PC Is Here: ‘Prepare to Die’ like a Pro
Finally. That’s what those of you with tricked-out PC rigs — who perhaps don’t have game consoles and have had to listen to console gamers brag about just how phenomenal this game is — may be saying this morning, now that Dark …
In Memory of Nintendo Power
At the end of this year, the lights will turn off at Nintendo Power. Future US, which has produced the long-running magazine for the last five years, is pulling out, and Nintendo says it won’t seek a new publisher according to …
Microsoft Swaps Its Logo for the First Time in a Quarter of a Century
Microsoft just rolled out the most significant change to its iconic corporate logo since 1987, trading curves for straight lines and black-and-white for vivid colors.
It’s not just the four-color Windows icon that’s morphed, …
