As far as DLC goes, we need a lot more of this.
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Assassin’s Creed IV: Finally, an Open-World Pirate Game
Surprise! Ubisoft’s leaping straight to a numbered sequel with what’s it’s calling Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, a “vast” open-world pirate game.
Far Cry 3 Writer Says Critics Got It All Wrong
It turns out that Far Cry 3 wasn’t really a hamfisted story of a manchild-turned-jungle warrior, lousy with offensive white colonialism tropes. It was actually a subversion of those things.
Or so says the game’s lead writer, …
Far Cry 3 Review: Entertainment for a Price
Far Cry 3 is a virtual playground for hunting, climbing, shooting, stabbing and looting. In contrast to its predecessor, the nuisances of realism do not apply in Far Cry 3. All that matters is whether you have fun.
Assassin’s Creed III‘s Connor: How Ubisoft Avoided Stereotypes and Made a Real Character
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 …
‘Assassin’s Creed III’: On Slavery, Native Americans and Death-Dealing Gameplay
Assassin’s Creed sits at or very near the top of my favorites list as enthusiast-grade video games go. (I apologize for calling it “enthusiast,” but I don’t have a better word, and I want to distinguish it from stuff like …
Ubisoft Unveils New Trailer for Assassin’s Creed III
Goodbye Ezio; hello Ratohnhaké:ton. The unpronounceable hero of Assassin’s Creed III kills plenty of Redcoats in the trailer released by Ubisoft, which today revealed several details about the upcoming game set in Colonial …
God, Complex: ‘From Dust’ Review
When you’re God, the world is your puzzle.
That’s the main conceit powering From Dust, a game from legendary designer Eric Chahi, best known for his early PC gaming masterpiece Another World. It’s a graphical and aesthetic update to the god game, a genre which saw its greatest popularity more than a decade ago in titles like Populous …
‘Black Eyed Peas’ FINALLY Get Their Own Video Game
Looks like Black Eyed Peas have officially “made it” in the music industry. It doesn’t matter how many albums you sell or how many concerts you sell out, you’re nobody until somebody makes a video game about you.
Ubisoft is that somebody, and the game is called The Black Eyed Peas Experience. It’s “coming soon” to Xbox 360 Kinect and …
Emotion Control: ‘Child of Eden’ Review
I’ll be honest with you, Techland readers: I haven’t played a Kinect game in months. Yes, motion-control titles have continued to roll out since the blockbuster launch of Microsoft’s skeletal-tracking camera but none of them, to me, offered anything to get excited about. And, yes, I mean you, Kung Fu Panda 2 and Carnival Games …
E3 2011: The Best of the New
Exhaustion’s the only appropriate response after the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo. Even if you’re only watching at home, it’s dizzying trying to keep up with all the news, hype and announcements that emanate from the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Hundreds of games jockey for attention, and inevitably, some garner more buzz …
Contest: Win a Download Code for ‘Beyond Good & Evil’
Beyond Good & Evil won a second chance at life when the uprezzed BG&E HD came out last week. It’s been eight years since the original version came out, back in the heyday of the PS2, Xbox 1.0 and GameCube, and the high-def re-release lets the game find a new crop of fans. But that’s not enough for me.
