Assassin’s Creed

As part of the gaming "Play Apart Together" campaign going on here in the summer of global pandemic, Ubisoft's giving away a couple games. They're releasing Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece, and Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt, both for free, in a window one week long. Where Assassin's Creed is a game about historical missions run by ancient hunters of humans, Discovery Tour is all about the history - without all the violence.

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This morning Microsoft released a BUNCH of trailers for games for Xbox Series X, one of the most engaging of which was Assassin's Creed Valhalla. This game will be one of the premiere must-see games of the platform right out the gate, taking full advantage of Ray Tracing and immersive gameplay graphics from top to bottom. Also, it'll have axes. Lots of axes.

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Revealed this week by Ubisoft North America was the next chapter in the Assassin's Creed saga, with vikings! This next game's name is Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and it's going to be epic. The little information we've got so far can be expanded into a wave of understanding since the evolution of gameplay made in Assassin's Creed games over the past decade's been fairly simple to track. It's just that now, there'll be more axes!

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For much of this morning, Ubisoft has been teasing the next Assassin's Creed game in a very interesting way. Instead of publishing a press releasing or a teaser trailer, Ubisoft has been slowly revealing the setting for the next Assassin's Creed game in a Photoshop livestream with BossLogic. Since 5 AM PDT/8AM EDT, viewers have been watching an artist slowly compose an image that reveals the setting for the next Assassin's Creed title.

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Monday saw one of the world's most historic and most artistic structures succumb to a devastating fire. In addition to the outpouring of emotion and support, the Internet was also flooded with examples of how the Notre-Dame de Paris has influenced the arts and culture over the centuries, from novels such as the Hunchback of Notre-Dame to games like Assassin's Creed Unity. The latter is one of the most recent recreations of the iconic cathedral and now developer Ubisoft is giving everyone a chance to behold the majesty of Notre-Dame, even if only virtually.

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It seems that Ubisoft and Google, but particularly Ubisoft, are knee-deep into developing this fancy new streaming tech that they’re prepared to spend a few hundred dollars just on beta testers. That’s because the game publisher has just revealed that those eager beavers who were able to get into Google’s Project Stream beta program will be able to continue their killing spree even when the testing ends with a free PC copy of the game and a few credits to boot.

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Today Google released a wave of invites to their new Project Stream, starting with Assassin's Creed Odyssey. This invite wave is for those users that signed up previously - but this isn't the end of the invite and update phase - not by a long shot! Today we've having a peek at what it's like to drop in on Google's gaming streaming service right out the gate! First we'll have a brief chat about what we needed and what you'll need to get started.

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Our Assassin's Creed Odyssey Review isn't entirely necessary - we've already reviewed this game time and time again. The existence of a new Assassin's Creed each year is like what Star Wars became with its purchase by Disney. Each time a new one comes out, I'm gonna go see it, just like I'll buy each Assassin's Creed. It's not as if each new year is going to deliver something strikingly different or less good.

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For as much as it's discusses, game streaming is something that's still very much in its infancy. Sony has found some degree of success with its PlayStation Now platform, and Microsoft has plans to break into game streaming with the Xbox brand, but there's still plenty of problems to solve in the space. Google is looking to do just that with a new service it's calling Project Stream, which was officially announced today.

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We've still got a few more weeks to go before Assassin's Creed Odyssey arrives, but today, Ubisoft revealed its plans for post-launch content. More specifically, it revealed what will be included in Odyssey's season pass alongside the add-on content that all players will get for free. Ubisoft says that Odyssey will feature the company's "most ambitious post-launch support ever" for the franchise, and after seeing the video embedded below, we believe it.

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Though yearly franchises may not be as popular as they once were in the video game industry, there are still a few big names that are going strong. Assassin's Creed has historically been one of these franchises, with a mainline game releasing nearly every year since the the first title debuted in 2007. As it turns out, that's going to change in 2019.

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Ubisoft's E3 2018 press conference wrapped up not too long ago, and it was quite the show. Ubisoft had a lot of announcements to make, giving some games we already knew about full reveals while announcing some others we weren't expecting. In all, Ubisoft's energetic press conference lasted right around an hour-and-a-half, and the publisher covered a lot of ground, so let's dive into the trailers from the show.

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