Gamervision: As you might know by now, Gamervision takes Collector's Editions very, very seriously. You can be sure that at least one person in the office will be picking up one or another, and then chatting about it the following day. What can we say, we love plastic stuff! It's also cool to see developers try and one-up each other, each trying to give gamers more bang for their buck. As of now, the winner is likely BioShock, which came with a fantastic Big Daddy figure for a measly $10, or Modern Warfare 2 with it's night vision goggles, since, you know, they technically have a use outside of sitting on a shelf.
ConnectedConsoles: Penguin Books and Ubisoft announced today a groundbreaking partnership that will bring together the worlds of gaming and publishing in a unique collaboration.
ConnectedConsoles: 2007 was the year that Ubisoft released their new IP Assassins Creed, which was highly enjoyable for some, not so much for others. It's almost exactly two years to get Assassins Creed II made (which will be released on November 20). Though Creed fans may not have to wait too long to see something else based on the game.
Ubisoft says that Assassin's Creed II leads exceptional product slate – despite trade's lean release schedule
ConnectedConsoles: Ubisoft are "interested" in bringing a multiplayer campaign into the Assassins Creed series at some point.
Kotaku:Ubisoft has given prop makers Atlanta Cutlery and Museum Replicas rights to make weapons, clothing and accessories based on the Assassin's Creed license, quickly solving all of your Halloween costume woes.
Gamervision Reports: "Earlier today, we covered the news that Kristen Bell would be reprising her role as Lucy Stillman in Assassin's Creed II. In the press bundle, a bunch of images of the actress reading her lines was supplied, as was a few images giving a first look into AC2 outside the Animus. Generic images? Maybe, but after looking into them (and reading into the game's story a little deeper) it might actually have given us a whole new look at the sequel.
LivePlayStation: Games like Assassins Creed should have Collectors Edition's available. Assassins Creed 2 will have a collectors edition, so, to celebrate the upcoming release of the sequel to what is one of the greatest next gen games available,GAME (The UK's Biggest Gaming Retailer) are selling the originalAssassins Creed Collectors Edition for an amazingly low price of £9.98.
IncGamers reports Assassin's Creed 2 will have DLC, but more interestingly, fans might see multiplayer modes...
Speaking to IncGamers, associate producer Vincent Pontbraind said the Assassin's Creed team were already talking about the next Assassin's Creed.
With a teaser campaign having already begun, the game's first "full trailer" is set to premiere this weekend, during Five's broadcast of The Da Vinci Code. The teaser trailer will reportedly air first, before a brand new trailer will aggressively push awareness of one of the hottest tips for 2009 videogame releases.
Trophy whores, Altair is not your friend. Though some of you have been pestering Ubisoft to go back and add Trophies to Assassin's Creed, they're not going to do it. You'll have to seek virtual ass-patting elsewhere.
Danny Cowan from Gamasutra writes:
During the taping of Bonus Round, Pachter let slip that Ubisoft would be changing the time-frame of the unannounced-but-inevitable Assassin's Creed sequel from 1191 to "several hundred years in the future" or more specifically, "sometime in the 1700s." While the time change was presented by Pachter as fact, he went on to speculate that the French Revolution could be a potential setting
mcvuk.com writes: Sony is delighted at the success of its debut PS3 Platinum range, and the platform holder is already gearing up for its second batch of releases.
An Assassins Creed-themed PEGI video hit Danish television this week, of a man dressed as Altair telling parents about violence and the appropriateness of certain games for their children.
In a new article lauding what it calls Ubisoft's "ascent" as it contends for third place (behind Electronic Arts and Activision) in the industry, Forbes heard from Ubi's North American president, Laurent Detoc, on its strategy for spacing the Prince of Persia games.
Exclusive to PS3 Attitude, this month's chart sees Haze take over the current rental top spot, and GTA: IV drops out of the pre-rent chart all together.
MTV Multiplayer writes: