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Wii U’s bill of materials adds up to $180 – Rumour

Wii U’s bill of materials adds up to $180 – Rumour

Wii U's bill of materials totals up to $180 if a report from Forget The Box is to be believed. Now, bill of materials shouldn't be taken as an accurate representative of how much the manufacturer wi... Read More

Connor has more character depth than Ezio and Altair- Ubisoft on AssCreed 3

Connor has more character depth than Ezio and Altair- Ubisoft on AssCreed 3

Assassin's Creed 3's creative director Alex Hutchinson says the development team wanted a deep character in the third instalment of the game, and he believes that the new protagonist, Connor, has m... Read More

Analyst: “No Activision support for Wii U”, Nintendo stock downgraded

Analyst: “No Activision support for Wii U”, Nintendo stock downgraded

Looks like Activision may not support the Wii U, according to an analyst in Japan with Macquarie Capital Securities, David Gibson. I don't know how that is even possible, but there's more. Appare... Read More

9 Things We Want To See In Assassin’s Creed 3

9 Things We Want To See In Assassin’s Creed 3

The Assassin's Creed franchise has been going from strength to strength ever since its inception, but people had started complaining about several things with the release of Revelations- the engine wa... Read More

Awesome new Assassin’s Creed 3 details

Awesome new Assassin’s Creed 3 details

Polish gaming magazine PSX Extreme has some new details on Assassin's Creed 3, thanks to an exclusive preview, and the game's definitely looking really good. The details are given below: Be... Read More

Ubisoft talks about influences for Assassin’s Creed 3

Ubisoft talks about influences for Assassin’s Creed 3

Ubisoft Matt Turner says that while Dan Brown's Freemason theories in his books are similar to the direction Assassin's Creed 3 will be taking, they aren't entirely similar. "I'm aware of Dan Brown... Read More

Assassin’s Creed 3’s Frontier is 1.5 times as large as Brotherhood’s Rome

Assassin’s Creed 3’s Frontier is 1.5 times as large as Brotherhood’s Rome

Ubisoft's writer Matt Turner says that with Assassin's Creed 3, the firm wants to create a game with a huge game world, and so it is that the frontier area in AC3, one of the three areas the game wi... Read More

Nintendo: “We don’t focus on specs”; devs confirm Wii U weaker than PS3/360

Nintendo: “We don’t focus on specs”; devs confirm Wii U weaker than PS3/360

Out of the blue Nintendo has commented to Digital Trends via Yahoo that they don't focus on specs, which probably means, they're doing damage control and the Wii U is indeed weaker than PS3 and Xbox... Read More

Assassin’s Creed 3 News: Larger focus on Desmond than ever before

Assassin’s Creed 3 News: Larger focus on Desmond than ever before

Desmond's role has been growing gameplay-wise and story-wise with each successive instalment in the Assassin's Creed franchise. Except for Revelations, of course. But with the story coming to an end ... Read More

Wii U might be able to run MMOs without compromise- Funcom

Wii U might be able to run MMOs without compromise- Funcom

Joel Bylos, lead designer at Funcom (developers of titles like Age of Conan and Secret World), think the Wii U might turn out to be the only system that can run MMORPGs "without compromise", citing ... Read More

REPORT: Wii U releasing this November

REPORT: Wii U releasing this November

According to new reports on the internet, the Wii U, Nintendo's next-gen home console, will be released on November 18 this year in the US, and a week later in Japan. A European release date has not... Read More

Wii U is even weaker than PS3 and Xbox 360 – Report

Wii U is even weaker than PS3 and Xbox 360 – Report

Wii U is reportedly weaker than the PS3 and Xbox 360, according to some [unnamed] developers. So how exactly can a system be weaker than 7-year old systems [PS3 and 360]? It is said that the tablet... Read More

Ubisoft has big plans for the Wii U, wants to be no. 1 on the platform

Ubisoft has big plans for the Wii U, wants to be no. 1 on the platform

Ubisoft's SVP of sales and marketing, Tony Key has revealed in an interview with Gamasutra that they want to become the no. 1 publisher on the Wii U. Ubisoft is also planning to release Assassin'... Read More

Assassin’s Creed 3 set to become highest pre-ordered Ubisoft title

Assassin’s Creed 3 set to become highest pre-ordered Ubisoft title

Ubisoft has announced that the third entry in their super-successful Assassin's Creed franchise is set to become the most pre-ordered game in the firm's history. After just three weeks of being off... Read More

These Are The Weapons That Connor Will Carry In Assassins Creed 3

These Are The Weapons That Connor Will Carry In Assassins Creed 3

Want to know what kind of weapons you will be carrying in Assassin's Creed 3? Ubisoft have released a video that explains just that. Take a deep look at the new Assassin's Creed 3 hero, Connor and ... Read More

New Assassin’s Creed III Wii U details out – Report

New Assassin’s Creed III Wii U details out – Report

We have a ton of new details on the Assassin's Creed 3 Wii U port and there's a lot of unique things Ubisoft are doing with the tablet controller of the system. The information was revealed in thi... Read More

Alan Wake dev hiring for “unannounced project targeted at future generation consoles”

Alan Wake dev hiring for “unannounced project targeted at future generation consoles”

Alan Wake developers Remedy are hiring people to work on an unannounced project that they intend to release on next gen systems. Looking to hire around 20 new people, they're increasing their staff ... Read More

Wii U similar in power to the PS3 and 360 – Report

Wii U similar in power to the PS3 and 360 – Report

Darksiders 2 game director, Marvin Donald has mentioned in an interview with Gamereactor that the Wii U is similar in power to the PS3 and Xbox 360. Now, the NDA should be extremely strict for... Read More

Assassin’s Creed 4 could be set before Assassin’s Creed 3

Assassin’s Creed 4 could be set before Assassin’s Creed 3

Ubisoft says that the inevitable yet unrevealed fourth instalment of the Assassin's Creed franchise could very well be set in time before the upcoming Assassin's Creed 3. “It’s a question we’... Read More

Mark Rein: Unreal Engine 3 can produce better visuals than Zelda Wii U demo

Mark Rein: Unreal Engine 3 can produce better visuals than Zelda Wii U demo

Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games mentioned at GDC that they are excited for Wii U, and said it will do extremely well. He also said that he saw Batman: Arkham City running on it and the con... Read More