Assassin's Creed live symphonic tour is coming to London next year
Tickets available now.
Assassin's Creed Symphony, a live orchestral performance of the long-running series' best loved music is coming to London next October, Ubisoft has announced.
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
Syndicate moves Assassin's Creed forward with a solid new adventure, a beautiful London playground and a renewed sense of fun.
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Hey, bail.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Jack the Ripper DLC review
Frye's delight.
Digital FoundryDigital Foundry vs Assassin's Creed Syndicate PC
Unity is a high-end PC showcase - does the sequel provide the same transformative upgrade over console?
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Assassin's Creed Syndicate sales "clearly" impacted by Unity
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Assassin's Creed's comics just delivered a moment fans have waited nearly a decade for
Juno what we're talking about.
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.
Xbox has a great list of Games with Gold for April
The Witness! Assassin's Creed! Dead Space 2! Cars 2.
April's Xbox Live Games with Gold line-up feels like a particularly good one.
FeatureThe Assassin's Creed series, ranked
As Ezio one, two, three.
Assassin's Creed is a series all about history - well, that and stabbing people in the neck. So, for the release of Origins, we thought we'd celebrate by delving into the history of the series. It's a lot less messy than doing the stabbing in the neck thing ourselves.
FeatureAssassin's Creed: the story so far
Everything is permitted.
There will likely never be a better entry point to Assassin's Creed than Origins, released today. A prequel set a thousand years before the events of Assassin's Creed 1, Origins can be enjoyed as your first experience of the series.
Final Fantasy 15 is getting free Assassin's Creed crossover DLC
Dawn the AC cowl as Lestallum partakes in its Assassin's Festival.
Apparently cosplaying as an Assassin's Creed character is such a phenomenon that it's infiltrated the world of Final Fantasy 15. Indeed, Square Enix's popular RPG is getting a free Assassin's Creed-related timed expansion due 29th August and lasting through 31st Jan, 2018.
Sources: leaked Assassin's Creed: Origins image is real
Not long now.
An off-screen image of the next Assassin's Creed game has popped up on the internet - and three separate Eurogamer sources have confirmed it is indeed legit.
When Assassin's Creed does modern day London slang
That was peak.
On Wednesday, 1st February, Titan Comics will release Assassin's Creed: Uprising issue number one - the start of a brand new comic series.
Hey, bail.
Originally published last month for its initial US release, here's our review of the Assassin's Creed film - which is now showing in the UK.
Like his shiny set of Assassin blades, Michael Fassbender dual-wields the main roles in Assassin's Creed - those of present day thug Callum Lynch and Spanish Inquisition ancestor Aguilar. It means Fassbender is always the film's focus, the sharp end of its blade designed to ensure Ubisoft's biggest gaming series penetrates ever further into the public consciousness. But what a mess he's forced to make to try and get its point across.
Fans of the series should expect a whirlwind tour of the Assassin's Creed greatest hits - splendidly reconstructed historical settings, wall-running and roof-jumping fisticuffs, philosophical meanderings over a shiny Apple of Eden McGuffin - but all of the games' poorer traits make the leap to the big screen, too: weak characterisation, humourless exposition, and a story which exists simply to string one punch-up to the next.
Assassin's Creed film's next publicity stunt is an actual stunt
Channel 4 to take a leap of faith - live.
The Assassin's Creed film's next publicity stunt involves an actual stunt: a 100 foot freefall to be exact.
You may not know it, but Assassin's Creed hosts a detailed modern day storyline which has been building for years.
Assassin's Creed stuntman performs real-life leap of faith
125ft jump is the largest performed for a film in 35 years.
Assassin's Creed stuntman Damien Walters leapt 125 feet for the upcoming film, making this the biggest freefall stunt in the movies in 35 years.
Assassin's Creed movie mostly set in modern times
Only 35 per cent in 15th century Spain.
Roughly two-thirds of the upcoming Assassin's Creed movie will be set in modern times.
Everything the Assassin's Creed movie trailer tells us
Dive in to our breakdown.
The Assassin's Creed movie now has its first trailer, which shows off Michael Fassbender's main character, the film's present day and historical storylines plus a brooding Jeremy Irons.
The movie will tell a new story set within the main Assassin's Creed universe.
That said, it looks like the first Assassin's Creed game will serve as a major inspiration.
Assassin's Creed gets official virtual reality spin-off this year
But it's "not a game".
Ubisoft has an Assassin's Creed virtual reality experience for launch this year.
Assassin's Creed movie already getting a sequel - report
Michael Fassbender is on board for more.
The Assassin's Creed movie won't be out until 21st December, but it's reportedly already greenlit a sequel.
According to The Tracking Board, New Regency has already signed with producers Jean-Julien Baronnet from Ubisoft Motion Pictures, Frank Marshall through his Kennedy-Marshall Company, along with Michael Fassbender and Conor McCaughan through DMC Films.
It's not clear if Assassin's Creed co-stars Marion Cotillard or Jeremy Irons will return. The same goes for director Justin Kurzel. For that matter, it's not 100 per cent confirmed that Fassbender will star in the sequel, but the fact that he's co-producing it suggests he'll reprise the role.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate bows out today with The Last Maharaja DLC
10 more missions to take a stab at.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate's final slice of DLC is now available for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
It sounds like Assassin's Creed won't come out every year any more
It's about time.
Assassin's Creed will not revert back to an annual cycle after its current hiatus, Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has suggested.
No new Assassin's Creed this year, Ubisoft confirms
Taking time off to "evolve the game mechanics".
Ubisoft has officially confirmed that there will not be a new mainline Assassin's Creed game this year.
"This year, we also are stepping back and re-examining the Assassin's Creed franchise. As a result, we've decided that there will not be a new Assassin's Creed game in 2016," the publisher stated in a new blog post.
"Since the release of Assassin's Creed Unity, we've learned a lot based on your feedback. We've also updated our development processes and recommitted to making Assassin's Creed a premier open-world franchise. We're taking this year to evolve the game mechanics and to make sure we're delivering on the promise of Assassin's Creed offering unique and memorable gameplay experiences that make history everyone's playground."
Assassin's Creed prequel set in ancient Egypt, due 2017- report
Aiming for a "Witcher feel", codenamed Empire.
Assassin's Creed's next major entry is allegedly set in ancient Egypt and will serve as a prequel to the entire series, according to a series of reports.
Assassin's Creed movie lets you phone Jeremy Irons' voicemail
Abstergo yourself.
Ubisoft has begun teasing next year's Assassin's Creed film by releasing the business card for fictional Abstergo boss Alan Rikkin, soon to be played by Jeremy Irons.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Jack the Ripper DLC review
Frye's delight.
Ubisoft's announcement that it would adapt the murders of Jack the Ripper into a rip-roaring epilogue for Assassin's Creed Syndicate rose some eyebrows. How would the developer handle the gruesome murders? Would you play as Jack during them? After Syndicate's solid main storyline and well-written cast of characters, it was a risky swansong to take on.
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Digital FoundryDigital Foundry vs Assassin's Creed Syndicate PC
Unity is a high-end PC showcase - does the sequel provide the same transformative upgrade over console?
Is the new generation of console hardware holding back creators from fully realising their visions for next generation visuals? It's a question we've been pondering recently with the release of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. There's no doubt that it's an accomplished title, but stacked up against last year's Unity running fully maxed on PC, there's a sense that it feels like a backward step from a technological perspective.
Of course, the sheer scale and scope of Unity's vision had a tremendous impact on the quality of the console versions - put simply, they couldn't cope. But if you own a mid to high-end gaming PC (a modern Core i5 paired with a GTX 970 or better will do the trick), we highly recommend taking Unity for a spin. The gorgeous rendering of 18th century Parisian architecture is beautifully lush; the intricate detail and sheer variety in the cityscape is breathtaking. And of course, there is the intense volume of NPCs in the game: the streets are packed - perhaps not so good for ground-level traversal, but the sheer spectacle is unparalleled by anything else in the series, Syndicate included.
It's rare that we see PC hand in a truly transformative experience compared to the console versions - but Unity delivers. All of which begs the question: does the PC sequel offer anything like the same revelatory improvement? There are certainly areas that could benefit: console performance compared to Unity was a night and day improvement, but Syndicate still sees drops from the target 30fps. There's resolution too - pegged to the same 900p as Unity - and obviously the sky's the limit there, GPU power permitting. But in addition to that, the AnvilNext engine is clearly capable of rendering a higher population, while mid to long distance rendering seems somewhat lacking in detail on console.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate Jack the Ripper DLC releases next week
And you play as...
Assassin's Creed Syndicate's Jack the Ripper DLC will launch on 15th December for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Ubisoft has just announced.
Jade Raymond building "Assassin's Creed-style game" for EA
Hood have thought.
EA will enter the open-world adventure genre with an Assassin's Creed-style game from ex-Ubisoft producer Jade Raymond.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate's PC system requirements revealed
You animus have a rig this powerful.
Ubisoft has revealed the following system requirements for the PC version of Assassin's Creed Syndicate due on 19th November:
You can now dress Assassin's Creed Syndicate's leading duo in a set of steampunk clothes - but you'll also need up to 3.1GB of hard drive space for the fresh wardrobe items.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate sales "clearly" impacted by Unity
But rebounding due to positive word of mouth.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate's launch week sales were "clearly" affected by the underwhelming Assassin's Creed Unity, Ubisoft has admitted.
Speaking last night during an investor call, Ubisoft exec Alain Martinez explained that the negative reaction to last year's Assassin's Creed had sparked a noticeable dip in franchise sales year-on-year.
Unity arrived with an array of bugs and low performance across all platforms, although images taken from the game's PC version - which seemed to fare worst - ended up being most widely shared. Ubisoft issued a number of patches over subsequent months but by then the damage had been done.
Xbox One exclusive Halo 5: Guardians topped the UK all-format charts for its debut week of release.
Impressively, Halo 5 earned 50 per cent more sales than multi-platform launch Assassin's Creed Syndicate did last week.
It's worth noting that Halo 5 launched on a Tuesday, so had three days longer on sale than Syndicate.
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is the UK's number one game - but it's the lowest-selling major Assassin's Creed.
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate lets you drift horse carriages, Fast and the Furious-style, around London's narrow street corners.
For a series focused on history, Syndicate feels refreshingly free from Assassin's Creed's own. Plenty has already been written about Assassin's Creed Unity, last year's underwhelming entry in the series. The intense negative reaction upon Unity's initial release lingered through its slow cycle of post-launch patches, to the extent that the game's season pass was cancelled and its major add-on was offered free as a result. The whole episode left such an impact on the franchise that any discussion about Assassin's Creed must currently acknowledge it, and any expectations for Syndicate's subsequent trip to Victorian London must be matched up to what came before. Thankfully, after Syndicate, I think Assassin's Creed can finally move on.
First things first, here are all the things Assassin's Creed doesn't have this year. There's no bolted on multiplayer mode or any co-op options. It doesn't have any connections to a broken web service. It doesn't require you to play a companion app to acquire everything in the game. It's like a human being actually sat down to design a game with the simple requirement that it felt fun, rather than it being a £50 experience designed by a committee to link up a web of interconnected transmedia nodes. It's a huge relief. Next, here are all the things Syndicate adds back to the series' sandbox - simple things such as picking up and hiding bodies, whistling to attract attention - as well as several new methods of traversal to reinvigorate the game's parkour gameplay.
Syndicate's new grappling hook - a brazen but welcome lift from Rocksteady's Arkham games - streamlines your rooftop exploration and stretches it out over vast distances. It lets you quickly zip between the towers of the Palace of Westminster or rappel down from St Paul's and stop midway to drop vertically onto the heads of two Templar targets. Alternatively, it works as a faster connection between two buildings during a chase - there's no need to find a rope linking rooftops or climb down from your stalking zone when tracking targets. Assassination missions become cat and mouse affairs where you can zip in and out of sight, losing your pursuers only to drop down and silently snuff out another.
Ubisoft has been keeping quiet about a cool section of Assassin's Creed: Syndicate which does things a little differently to previous games in the series.
VideoWatch: Cor blimey, Ian's streaming Assassin's Creed Syndicate!
Live at 5pm, me old mucker.
Wotcha! It's your old china plate Ian 'igton 'ere with another fancy live stream for ya to goggle at with your mince pies.
Ubisoft has shown off some more of Assassin's Creed: Syndicate's virtual Victorian London in a new set of videos.
Jeremy Irons and Brendan Gleeson added to Assassin's Creed cast
As Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard's dads.
Jeremy Irons and Brendan Gleeson are now slated to appear opposite Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in the Assassin's Creed movie.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate has an achievement for shooting horses
And it's titled "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU".
Assassin's Creed Syndicate will both reward and scold players that overturn vehicles by shooting their horses.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate has learned from Unity's mistakes, but is that enough?
Industrial evolution.
I'm sat in Wapping Power Station at half nine in the morning listening to Ubisoft talk about Assassin's Creed Syndicate. The surroundings are fittingly Victorian, dotted with industrial machinery that likely once ran on adorable orphan labour. Creative director Marc-Alexis Côté is telling us how the game introduces its two main characters, Jacob and Evie Frye, and why his team are excited about Syndicate's London setting. But everyone sat listening really has just one question they want answering - can Syndicate revitalise the franchise following Assassin's Creed Unity?
Ubisoft also updates the series' standard opening text.
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate will include the long-running series' first transgender character.
VideoVideo: Sony conference roundup - Tokyo Games Show 2015
Aoife and Martin bring you the latest from Japan.
After dodging the limelight at this year's Gamescom, Sony finally gave us the press conference we were expecting back in August. Whether it was the conference we were hoping for, of course, is another matter entirely. Thankfully, in case you missed it, Aoife and Martin have gone over the biggest announcements and are ready to bring you up to speed.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate has a Jack the Ripper DLC
UPDATE: Season pass detailed, includes permanent XP boost.
UPDATE 11.00am: Ubisoft has now detailed the Assassin's Creed: Syndicate season pass, which will include the just-announced Jack the Ripper pack.
Ubisoft plans to open a theme park in Malaysia in 2020
Just Dance your way onto a plane to Kuala Lumpur.
Ubisoft has announced plans to open a theme park in Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia, in 2020.
Here's your first look at Prometheus and X-Men star Michael Fassbender dressed up for his starring role in the upcoming Assassin Creed movie.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate PC due a month after consoles
Ubisoft focusing on smooth launch, no locked framerate or resolution.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate's PC version is due on 19th November, four weeks after the PS4 and Xbox One versions' release on 23rd October.
Ubisoft has announced a set of Assassin's Creed: Syndicate missions starring Dickens and Darwin, available if you pre-order the game.
VideoVideo: Where's the hype for these huge games?
Stop the train.
In many ways, producing video for the internet is a lot like soothsaying. We spend a lot of time reading the tea leaves (or fish guts, depending on your preference) to try and divine what videos will do well. Is the subject matter engaging? Have we tagged the video properly? Is this a game people want to see more of?
Assassin's Creed Syndicate's Evie can become invisible
Blimey guvnor!
Assassin's Creed Syndicate's secondary protagonist Evie Fry has a unique stealth ability to become invisible and sneak past guards.
Watch nearly an hour of Assassin's Creed Syndicate
The presenters seem a little green.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate's hour-long demo is now available online.
VideoVideo: E3 Predictions - Fallout 4, Assassin's Creed Syndicate and more - The Eurogamer Show
What's that Randy Newman song again?
By the time this article goes live, my journey to E3 with Aoife, Tom and Oli will be underway. A frenzy of writing, filming, coffee drinking and very little sleep awaits, and I couldn't be more excited. There's so much to look forward to already but, if there's one thing E3 is good for, it's producing the odd surprise.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate will not have companion app, Ubisoft confirms
Development focused on "core experience".
Assassin's Creed Syndicate will not have a companion app, the publisher has confirmed.
This year's Victorian London-set adventure will be the first in several years not to have an extended mobile experience.
Fans of the series will likely welcome the news. Among the criticisms of last year's Unity was its tactic of locking access to treasure chests and costumes behind hours of app progression.
This week was really exciting because Ubisoft finally admitted they were making an Assassin's Creed game set in London, which meant we could all stop pretending they might be doing anything but making an Assassin's Creed game set in London.
Actually, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, I think you'll find…
That British Railways wasn't founded until 1948.
Eagle-eyed Assassin's Creed fans have found a little historical inaccuracy in Syndicate.
Digital FoundryDigital Foundry on the Assassin's Creed Syndicate reveal
Has the Unity disaster forced Ubisoft into a more conservative technological approach?
Was Assassin's Creed Unity simply too ambitious for its own good? Revolutionary Paris - densely populated, rich in detail - looked beautiful on a high-end PC, but the experience didn't translate well to less capable hardware, including PS4 and Xbox One. Riddled with bugs at launch and suffering from severe frame-rate problems, our sense is that Unity's heart was in the right place, but its execution was brand-damaging stuff. From what we've seen of its successor, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, perhaps Ubisoft is executing a course correction that could see tangible improvements in stability, but the question is whether it comes at the expense of the raw ambition behind the core technology.
Ubisoft ditches Xbox 360 and PS3 development
Except for Just Dance.
Ubisoft will no longer release games for PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, except for its casual rhythm series Just Dance.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate's four special editions detailed
Missions! A figure! A hip flask! More.
Assassin's Creed games are known for releasing with a rainbow of special editions, each with their own contents and collector's items.
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate launches 23rd October on PS4, Xbox One
But later on PC. UPDATE: First gameplay footage inside, and everything we know so far.
UPDATE 5.20pm: Assassin's Creed: Syndicate will launch on 23rd October for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and then later in the autumn for PC.
In today's reveal Ubisoft confirmed much of what we already knew - Syndicate is set in London, in 1868, and star twin brother and sister Jacob and Evie Frye.
The story once again has those pesky Templars causing trouble and persecuting the poorer folk - which you can corral into organised gangs of criminals - syndicates - to do your bidding.
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate will let you play as a woman - report
Allegedly won't have any multiplayer.
Last year Ubisoft caught a lot of flak for not having any playable female characters in Assassin's Creed: Unity, but it looks like Ubisoft's Quebec studio isn't going to make the same mistake.
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is the Victorian AC adventure
Protagonist is named Jacob Frye.
The next game in the Assassin's Creed series will be subtitled Syndicate.
Future Assassin's Creed games will have "more robust modern day" than Unity
Ubisoft writing backstory to use over "the next 10, 20 years".
Future Assassin's Creed games will include a greater focus on the series' modern day timeline than last year's Assassin's Creed Unity, Ubisoft has suggested.
The next major Assassin's Creed is set in Victorian London
Called Victory, has a grappling hook.
The reveal of a Victorian London-based Assassin's Creed game subtitled - or codenamed - Victory has been leaked.