Tag: Ubisoft Montreal

We dinged Assassin's Creed: Revelations a couple of points when we reviewed the game last year because it felt a little stale

Narratively it was still a worthwhile entry into the series, but for large parts of the game, it felt like we were going through the motions. Regardless, publisher Ubisoft is delighted with the title's performance at retail. "Assassin's Creed is an incredible franchise..

Ubisoft must be getting a taste for what it feels like to lose a creative director

Just two years after the departure of series creator Patrice Desilets in 2010, Assassin's Creed: Revelations' creative director Alexandre Amancio has left Ubisoft Montreal in order to pursue a career at Canadian marketing firm, Cossette. Amancio has been an employee at Ubisoft Montreal for seven years, serving as an..

Ubisoft's lifted the lid on a new map pack for Assassin's Creed: Revelations' popular multiplayer component

Entitled the Mediterranean Traveller, the pack will introduce six new maps, spanning Jerusalem, Constantinople and Dyers, in addition to Assassin's Creed: Bortherhood favourites Florence, San Donato and Siena at night. The pack will launch on January 24th for £7.99 on the PlayStation..

If you're looking for an excuse to secretly stab some shady assassins, then Ubisoft's got your back

The publisher's announced that Assassin's Creed: Revelations' "Ancestors" DLC pack is available now from the PlayStation Store for $3.99 / £3.19. The pack includes a bunch of new multiplayer characters (including "the swashbuckling Privateer, the devious siren Corsair, the..

With Rainbow Six: Patriots not set to hit store shelves until 2013, it was no surprise to see the game's coming out party restricted to CG

But there's still a promising vision here. Like its last trailer, the new footage focuses on terrorists, bombs and, well, more bombs. Watch the concept trailer after the jump.

Assassin's Creed: Revelations is set to get a DLC pack entitled "Mediterranean Traveler" on January 24th, a GameStop listing has revealed

The store's page includes no further details, but does point to a $9.99 price-point for the content expansion. While Ubisoft has yet to officially confirm the DLC, the Assassin's Creed Wiki hints that the pack will include new multiplayer maps set in Siena,..

Suspecting a leak, Ubisoft has released an internal target trailer for its upcoming modern military shooter Rainbow Six: Patriots -- and there's more than a hint of inspiration from Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain on display

The moody target trailer — designed to provide the game's development team with a visual guideline during development — shows a civilian watching television on his Birthday,..

Ubisoft has sent out a survey quizzing Assassin's Creed fans on which location they'd like to see a future instalment of the historical series take place in

"Among the following propositions, in which of the following historical periods and locations would you like one of the next Assassin's Creed games to take place?” the survey asks, listing eight hypothetical destinations. Among the..

Nolan North voices many high-profile video game characters -- the most notable of which being Uncharted's Nathan Drake and Assassin's Creed's Desmond

Being involved in multiple high-profile projects gives North the rare opportunity to compare development styles, and in an interview with CVG the voice actor has suggested that Ubisoft should adopt the motion capture techniques leveraged by Naughty..

In order to celebrate the release of Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Ubisoft has released a new trailer going behind the scenes of the game's setting Constantinople

In the video a group of developers talk about scouting the location, capturing sounds and recording the game's orchestral score. It's an interesting watch. Catch it after the jump.

Do you glaze over when anybody starts talking about Assassin's Creed? Confused by the whole Templar-Brotherhood-Desmond lark? Not a problem -- Ubisoft's released a brand new catch-up trailer spanning the events of the Assassin's Creed series so far

Watch it and feel informed. Then dash outside and pick-up your copy of Assassin's Creed: Revelations, which is out today. It would be properly..

With Assassin's Creed: Revelations set to appear on store shelves this week, Ubisoft's started to talk in a little more detail about the game's multiplayer and single-player convergence

In a PlayStation Blog post, community developer Gabe Graziani explains that each of the title's playable multiplayer characters will feature in the single-player campaign. One of those characters is the Sentinel,..

You can't beat a good launch trailer can you? Take this final slice of footage from Assassin's Creed: Revelations

It's packed with cinematic music, massive spectacles and well-timed one-shots from protagonist Ezio. After spending just 2 minutes watching the trailer, we're now chomping at the bit for Ubisoft's latest. It's all rather clever when you stop to think about it. Get yourself in an..

In a new trailer, Ubisoft has revealed a little more about the setting of Assassin's Creed: Revelations: Constantinople

That's Istanbul to the modern world. The trailer depicts the culture of the historical setting, in addition to providing some gorgeous vista shots of the location. The game's out next week. Catch the trailer after the jump.

Despite being on an annual cycle, Assassin's Creed: Revelations is still keen to try something new

Ubisoft Montreal has revealed that its latest entry in the acrobatic stealth series will feature first-person sequences inspired by Inception. “It’s definitely a departure, and very cool I think. You get a lot of information about Desmond and his backstory by completing these [first-person..

During Ubisoft's Q2 earnings report today, executive Yves Guillemot confirmed that another Assassin's Creed title would launch next year

It will be the fourth year in a row that Ubisoft has had an entry in its acrobatic series, and while Guillemot refused to comment further on the game, it's prompted heavy speculation that the release will be called Assassin's Creed III and feature Desmond as the..

Keen to get a glimpse of Assassin's Creed: Revelations' multiplayer component? Yeah, us too

Multiplayer was the surprise addition to Brotherhood that had us hooked for hours longer than we anticipated. And while we're not expecting Revelations to reinvent the wheel, we are looking forward to a spot of refinement and a good lavishing of new maps. There's two new trailers after the jump. Don't we..

Hollywood insiders have slammed Sony and Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed movie deal, labelling it "ridiculous"

Sources claim that Ubisoft's demanded a ridiculous level of creative input, leaving the project unlikely to ever get its feet off the ground. "As a director, even Steven Spielberg cannot get this kind of deal," an unnamed source revealed. According to Vulture, the deal grants Ubisoft..

Seems like previous reports were bang on the money: GameInformer has lifted the lid on its December issue, revealing with it Rainbow 6: Patriots

The latest in the long-running Rainbow Six series is scheduled to release in 2013 on PlayStation 3, and will take the series in a "bold new narrative direction". The "controversial" new entry will see players pitched against a terrorist..