- Prepare for Assassin's Creed Mirage with up to 80% off the full series - 26 August 2023
Assassin's Creed Mirage is almost upon us, so what better way to prepare than with a trip through the series' past? Fortunately, developer Ubisoft delivers, with a huge Assassin's Creed sale giving you up to 80% off all the games ahead of the Assassin's Creed Mirage release date , alongside the likes of Far Cry and The Division. With everything from the first game through to Assassin's Creed Valhalla up for grabs, you'll be spoilt for choice with some of the best open-world games around. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Every Assassin's Creed game is ultra cheap now, so grab them quick Ubisoft gives away three fantastic free games Free games: Assassin's Creed 2 is now free - to keep
- Five Assassin's Creed games are free to play, but not for long - 8 August 2023
Assassin's Creed is a core childhood RPG game series of mine, as I fondly recall adventuring as Ezio. With new games coming soon to the Assassin's Creed series, Ubisoft is hosting a massive sale with discounts reaching up to 85% off. Alongside the huge sale comes a free weekend where you can play one of five iconic Assassin's Creed games without paying at all. Both the free and sale are limited-time events, though, so you'll have to be quick if you want to join in on the fun. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Every Assassin's Creed game is ultra cheap now, so grab them quick Old Assassin's Creed games will stay available after 'decommissioning' 1666 Amsterdam footage hints at third-person, open-world, Dishonored style action
- Play five Assassin's Creed games for free this weekend - 8 August 2023
Ubisoft has announced a free weekend event with five Assassin’s Creed games on PC, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Depending on the platform, Assassin's Creed 2 , Brotherhood , Revelations , Black Flag , and Valhalla will be available to play for free August 10-14. New players will have access to the full main game content for all five titles, and if you want to keep your progression, buy the game, and you can get a discount on your choice. Read more
- Every Assassin's Creed game is ultra cheap now, so grab them quick - 9 June 2023
Assassin's Creed Valhalla is at its lowest price yet on Steam, as a mammoth Assassin's Creed Steam sale brings discounts across the entire series with up to 85% off on some of the games. With the Assassin's Creed Mirage release date on the horizon, Far Cry and The Division developer Ubisoft's biggest and best open-world games are all cheap right now, from the very first through to Assassin's Creed Valhalla and everything in between, so grab these deals while they last. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Ubisoft gives away three fantastic free games Free games: Assassin's Creed 2 is now free - to keep Ubisoft looks back on how Assassin's Creed 2 changed the series
- Ubisoft give online services for older games a stay of execution - 1 September 2022
Today was due to be the day when some older Ubisoft games would see their online services decommissioned, but the company is granting them a temporary reprieve. You now have until October 1st to cram in some multiplayer for several early Assassin’s Creeds , the original version of Far Cry 3 , Driver: San Francisco and others. Ubisoft say they’ve been “exploring what is possible to reduce disruption” over the last month, hence the shuffled date for decommissioning. Read more
- Ubisoft has postponed its plan to take some of its older games offline [UPDATE] - 31 August 2022
Update : Ubisoft has announced it will postpone its plan to pull some of its older titles offline until October 1. The firm also stated that Anno 2070 will not longer be taken offline. The firm initially said that 15 titles would be affected by the removal of online services, meaning that online features, DLC, and multiplayer modes would no longer be accessible. Now, according to Ubisoft , the single-player DLC of several games on PC - Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed 3 (2012 release), Far Cry 3 and Splinter Cell Blacklist - will be available to download and keep before October 1. If you own these games on PC, activate your DLC before the decommissioning to continue playing it. There will be no impact to the same single-player DLC on consoles, and you will continue to be able to download and play them after October 1 rolls around. Read more
- Ubisoft is shutting down online services for titles like Assassin's Creed 2 and more - 3 July 2022
Ubisoft is shutting down a number of online services for some of its older games, including titles like Assassin's Creed 2 . Nothing lasts forever, especially in the world of video games. The latest case of video games losing their online services was announced by Ubisoft earlier this week , with a number of older titles losing their multiplayer. Worse still, PC versions of some games will also no longer let you download DLC for them. Explaining in the announcement post, Ubisoft wrote "Closing the online services for some older games allows us to focus our resources on delivering great experiences for players who are playing newer or more popular titles." The titles listed will lose multiplayer from September 1, later this year. Read more
- Ubisoft to turn off online features for some old games, meaning players lose access to their DLC - 2 July 2022
Ubisoft are switching off online services for several older singleplayer games, including Anno 2070, Far Cry 3, Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, and Splinter Cell: Blacklist. For several of those games, that means that as of September 1st, "the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable," according to an Ubisoft support page . Read more
- The eight best babies in games - 18 March 2021
We were all babies once. Now we're all old babies. And chances are you love nothing more than kissing and dancing with other old babies. You want to grow even older with an old baby, to hold the old baby's hand and tell the old baby you love it. You even want to make new babies with old babies. There's no shame in loving an old baby. It's how we are all programmed, after all. Here at PCGamesN we get a lot of requests for list features, but far and away the question we are most often asked is: what are the eight best babies in games? Proper babies, I mean. New babies. Fresh babies . Well I've compiled a list of the best babies in games, which should answer that question once and for all. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Ubisoft gives away three fantastic free games Free games: Assassin's Creed 2 is now free - to keep Ubisoft looks back on how Assassin's Creed 2 changed the se…
- The 9 dodgiest religions in games - 28 February 2020
One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. Ah, religion. I know this is a topic we all have trouble agreeing on. But fear not, humble practitioner of a good pray, I am not here to squint angrily at your favourite book of life advice. I m only here for the videogame religions. The ones that are very, very, very, very bad. You know, the gun-loving cults and the xenophobic people-burners. The (mostly) fictional religions that involve an uncommon volume of murder. Step this way, sprinkle yourself with some of my 100% genuine oil of the almighty, and peruse the 9 most dodgy religions in games. (more…)
- Assassin's Creed's comics just delivered a moment fans have waited nearly a decade for - 3 May 2018
The Assassin's Creed comic series has just reached a moment in the franchise's overall story which fans have long awaited - a point the series' plot arc has been building to for nearly a decade. (If you're not up to date on the Assassin's Creed games up to Syndicate, beware spoilers below.) Back in 2016, Ubisoft and Titan Comics revealed that the First Civilisation plotline which featured in multiple Assassin's Creed games would instead "culminate" in a new series of graphic novels . Read more…
- Assassin’s Creed Heritage Collection bundles all previous Assassin’s Creed games - 4 October 2013
More and more new games every year are sequels, so I guess the next logical step is enormous collections of previously released games. Bethesda announced at QuakeCon that every Elder Scrolls game would be available, and now Ubisoft is following suit with the Assassin’s Creed Heritage Collection. Available on November 8, the Heritage Collection will include Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed 2, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, and Assassin’s Creed 3. The official price has not been announced, but some listings are starting to pop up in the neighborhood of $70/£40, which isn’t outrageous for five games plus DLC. Still, at that price you’re paying a premium for the packaging and whatever extras they throw in there, and we have no idea what those extras might be. Of course, Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag lands on November 19. Technically speaking, I suppose game…
- Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag box art advertises secret order with massive black flag - 28 February 2013
The hero of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag (already truncated to AssFlag in office lingo) makes a bid to become the loudest assassin yet in the box art Ubisoft put out today. He is wearing FOUR guns. He's wearing his "hidden" blade on the outside of his sleeve. He has woven a flag with the Assassin order logo on it, and then, because it wasn't piratey enough, plopped a skull in there for good measure. Because that's what you do, isn't it, when you're a pirate? You whack a skull on it. Assassin's Creed 4 is about pirates, and boats, and islands, and killing bad men. All will be revealed on Monday when details banks burst and information flows through the webways, as hot and saucy as the regurgitated rum of a green sailor's first hurl. Those of us in the office that played Assassin's Creed 3 really enjoyed the sea bits, which bodes well for this latest outing. We'll have preview here for…
- More Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry on the way - 8 February 2013
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: calling all Tapirs, please be on guard. Ubi have revised their yearly profit estimates up to somewhere between 90 and 100 million Euros after better-than-expected sales late last year, and are going to need a much bigger wallet. Gamasutra report that Assassin's Creed 3 shifted 12 million copies in the meatspace and online which is 70% more than AssCreed: Revelations managed. Far Cry 3 sold 4.5 million. A "much higher-than-expected performance," which means "fans certainly won't have to wait four more years for the next Far Cry." The next Assassin's Creed was also briefly mentioned. It'll apparently take place in a fresh setting and star a new hero. So much for Connor, then. Requiescat in pace, brusque angry hatchet-dude. I will remember you always, apart from your face and everything you said and did. That's all the info for now, but there's still time to ho…
- Assassin’s Creed 3 PC to have double and quadruple-res textures, DX11 features - 16 November 2012
Assassin's Creed 3 is arriving a bit late on PC, but according to comments from the Ubisoft team in a recent Reddit AMA, it'll come with some extra visual polish. DirectX 11 features like tessellation will smooth out those polygons and we can look forward to textures that, in some cases, will be four times the resolution of the console versions. Community developer "UbiGabe" also says that "when PC launches, it will include ALL of the console patches out at the time (so, that includes any patches we might be releasing in between now and PC launch). In addition, PC has a special patch designed to ensure that everything runs as smoothly as possible." Textures will be "double-res in most cases, but quadruple in some," and there will be "some other shader improvements that will have an impact, but aren't all that sexy to enumerate in a reddit post." UbiGabe should drop us a line, NOTHING IS…
- Assassin’s Creed 3 microtransactions “a shortcut to unlock game items” - 30 October 2012
After the appearance of listings for in-game "Erudito Credits" yesterday, Ubisoft have confirmed that there will be microtransactions in Assassin's Creed 3. "The Erudito Credits are a new way of unlocking content in Assassin's Creed 3's Multiplayer," Ubisoft told Eurogamer. "People who have little time can use Erudito Credits as a shortcut to unlock game items from level 1 to 50 (excluding Prestige levels and relics rewards). This is not mandatory, all items sold in Erudito Credits are also available in Abstergo Credits and can be unlocked through normal progression like previous years." Assassin's Creed 3 isn't the first full price game to contain optional microtransactions, boxes can be bought in Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode to unlock new weapons and classes a bit quicker, though it's a bit of a lottery. It sounds as though this system will be a more straightforward 'pay for credi…
- Assassin’s Creed 3 to feature microtransactions - 29 October 2012
Listings on the Xbox marketplace and the Playstation store reveal plans to sell in-game currency for real world money in Assassin's Creed 3, according to Eurogamer. The listings sell set amounts of "Erudito credits," which is thought to be the currency used in Assassin's Creed 3's multiplayer mode. Worthplaying captured a shot of the sale page for a batch of credits with accompanying description. "Buying this pack will grant you 925 Erudito Credits ingame, allowing you to acquire some game items, disregarding your current level." Listings on the Playstation store have prices, too: Assassin’s Creed III 155 Erudito Pack – ($4.99) Assassin’s Creed III 20 Erudito Pack – ($0.99) Assassin’s Creed III 380 Erudito Pack – ($9.99) Assassin’s Creed III 50 Erudito Pack – ($1.99) Assassin’s Creed III 925 Erudito Pack – ($19.99) Ubisoft haven't spoken about in-game microtransactions yet, but it's out…
- Assassin’s Creed 3 trailer kicks a man right in the balls - 25 October 2012
Console players will get their paws on Assassin's Creed 3 next week. We'll have to wait until November 20 in the US and November 23 in Europe, sadly, but you can absorb a 90 second montage of the action courtesy of the launch trailer, which features fighting on the high seas, some great big battle scenes, a bit of tragic back story and one particularly cruel groin kick. Find out whether your rig will run AC3 with the help of these system requirements and get a sense for how the sequel's shaping up with an account of some adventures in the wilderness in our Assassin's Creed 3 hands-on.
- Assassin’s Creed 3 multiplayer trailer drops moneybombs, breaks out huge hammers - 17 October 2012
A pirate throwing moneybombs to distract peasants makes sense, but why is the Carpenter carrying a huge hammer? Has he stolen it from a blacksmith? Why is nobody stopping him from bludgeoning others' brains out in broad daylight? Assassin's Creed 3's multiplayer mode will be a vicious, stabby, smashy affair that's for sure. Ubisoft are hoping to spice things up with new game modes that'll have assassin's occupying glowing circles to take territory, and working together to hunt down NPC targets. See those game modes in action in the latest Assassin's Creed 3 trailer below.
- Assassin’s Creed 3 system requirements appear, render the American Revolution on 2GB RAM - 26 September 2012
Assassin's Creed 3 will squash the American Revolution onto 17GB of hard drive space according to the minimum system specs carried by Kotaku. That's a hefty chunk of data. Hopefully it's all made up of high resolution textures to make the PC edition shine. It won't run on XP, if you're still using that, but the rest of the requirements look nice and manageable. The PC version is coming out a short while after the console edition on November 20 in the US and November 23 in Europe. Find out how it plays in our recent Assassin's Creed 3 hands-on account. Early indications suggest that it's going to be a very uncomfortable time for everyone wearing a red coat. At least the blood won't show. Minimum system requirements Supported OS: Windows Vista (SP2) / Windows 7 (SP1) / Windows 8 Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core2 Duo E6700 or 3.00 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better recommended RAM: 2 GB (4…
