To help promote the release of the upcoming game Assassin’s Creed 2, Ubisoft have been creating a short movie. The first part of the movie has now been released onto YouTube. The movie is titled Assassin’s Creed 2: Lineage and it follows the events that take place before the story of Assassin’s Creed 2. You follow the life of Assassin Giovanni Auditore, the father of Ezio, the character you play as in Assassin’s Creed 2. Along with the 15 minute clip also comes this description: “When the Duke of Milan is brutally murdered, the Assassin Giovanni Auditore is dispatched to investigate. The answers he uncovers implicate Italy’s most powerful families reaching all the way back to the Vatican itself. As…

Ubisoft, creators of the popular Splinter Cell series, have announced today that they will be delaying the release of Splinter Cell: Conviction, along with a number of other games, until the beginning of 2010. Along with the latest Splinter Cell game, they are also delaying Red Steel 2, now both are planned for an early 2010 release. Also, they are delaying I Am Alive and the next Ghost Recon game, however, these games are pushed back even further with possible release dates expected to be around 2011. This news came as quite a surprise considering all the hype at this years E3, also, a new trailer was released just a week ago. Even though this news came as quite a…

I’ll be honest here, I never thought that I would have gotten this game. Just the night before, I was saying to a mate that it didn’t sound like a brilliant game, however, when it came to Sunday afternoon, I fancied something new and a little different. So after heading down to Blockbusters, I returned with Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, and I’m glad I did. The game is a western based FPS where you can follow the lives of 3 brothers, Ray, Thomas and William. Being a reverend, you are not able to play as William because all you would be able to do is stand around and complain at what your other brothers are doing. So for…

A new study has been published by the magazine, Game Developer. The study looked at the best and most successful game developers of 2009. The rankings they came to were based on the Metacritic score aswell as the retail performance in Japan, UK and the US. Here’s the list of the top 20 game developers that were announced and what games they got ranked for. You can find the full list of 50 game developers here. Nintendo Kyoto Studio – Mario Kart Wii, Wii Fit Blizzard Entertainment – World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Ubisoft Montreal – Far Cry 2, Prince of Persia Rockstar North – Grand Theft Auto 4 EA Canada – FIFA Soccer 09, NHL 09…

Ubisoft released their full year financial results today and boast a healthy 14% rise in sales. The gaming giant released revenues for the fourth quarter of 2008-2009 of €206 million which is just over 5% under the fourth quarter of 2007-2008. This aside, they also announced their full yearly revenues for 2008-2009 which reached a whopping €1,058 million which is an increase of 14% on last years revenues of €928. Ubisoft said that this was largely down to an increase of sales from the Wii, as well as strong sales from games like Tom Clancy’s HAWX. That’s not all though, Ubisoft also gave some projected sales for the financial year to come, they predict that their total years revenues could…