The new Assassin’s Creed game-to-movie adaptation trailer has released, and it looks incredibly promising. In a time where video-game movies are, to put it bluntly, a disgraced and ridiculous genre, we must look to three upcoming releases as the possible saviours of the entire form; Assassin’s Creed (2016), World of Warcraft (2016), and – starring […]
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Ubisoft announce plans to pause development on new Assassin’s Creed game
Games studio Ubisoft announced on February 11th via their blog that they plan to “step back and re-examine” the blockbuster video-game franchise Assassin’s Creed. Up until 2016 the series has become an annual fixture in the gaming calendar, releasing new titles and DLC regularly (some would say too regularly). In lieu of the upcoming movie […]
Review: Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India
This review is for those distraught folk out there who will have recently heard, to their dismay, that there will be no main release in the Assassin’s Creed franchise this year. Sorry? No gamer actually cares that much? Please excuse my facetiousness but, since 2009, way back in the days of arguably the series’ highlight Assassin’s Creed 2, […]
Money making vs Originality – the problem of never ending sequels
The video game industry has become one of the leading industries in the world, raking in 46.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2014 alone, outstripping the film industry that only made 31.8 billion. Unlike the movie business, however, video games lack the secondary markets of home media sales or the selling of rights. Therefore game developers […]
Review: Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate
It’s about as inevitable as yet another rainy British summertime, but Assassin’s Creed has, once again, returned to our monitors. However, please stifle those yawns a moment: I’m happy to report that… this one’s actually quite good! And no, I haven’t even gone about as crazy as you’re average Joe Templar. Your latest Assassin‘s adventure sees Evie […]
Sequel-ation: Assassin’s Creed
In the first article of this column, I claimed that games were not necessarily limited just because they were sequels. However, not all sequels are necessarily good games. In order to make a great sequel you need to expand upon the original as well as taking the series in new and exciting directions that make […]