Grave Gamer News & Views — ubisoft

Watch Dogs Launches Around the World May 27th

The gaming public is all too familiar with delays, but it sure as hell notices when the belated title is as high profile a game as Watch Dogs is.

Originally meant to run out of the gates alongside next-gen consoles – while still dishing out current-gen counterparts – Watch Dogsslipped out of its November 2013 slot and into… well, seemingly oblivion. In...

“Black Flag quickly ranks as my favorite Assassin’s Creed. It’s everything an open-world game should be: enormous, addictive, and completely worth pouring hours into…

Ubisoft does a magnificent job of making you feel like a high seas hardass. The development team didn’t lightly nudge into the pirate theme, it tackled it full-on.”

Ubisoft Shows Off Black Flag’s DLC Campaign: Freedom Cry

Shipwrecked, abandoned, and unarmed, you assume the role of Adewale, a former slave that found unbound freedom as a pirate. Having served under Captain Edward Kenway as his first mate, Adewale received more than a crash course in piracy – he’s also an adept assassin.

Picking up fifteen years after the events of Black Flag, Adewale is stuck in the French controlled colony of Saint-Domingue where he’s forced to gather resources, persuade locals to join his crew, and, ultimately, jack his own ship. But his past catches up with him and soon enough Adewale begins fighting for the colony’s oppressed, hoping to share the freedom he took for himself in adolescence.

Freedom Cry will be a part of Assassin’s Creed IV’s newly announced Season Pass ($19.99), which’ll include a bevy of multiplayer content, and will be made available as soon as the game releases on Oct. 29th. Adewale’s nine-mission campaign doesn’t have a locked in date but the Season Pass’ full lineup of content is expected out between launch and March of next year.

Check out the Freedom Cry Trailer right hereabouts.

Assassin’s Creed IV Trailer Sets Up the Perfect Nautical Heist

Though the bandits of the high seas never seem to fail at capturing our imaginations – “Yo-Ho” pirates I mean; modern pirates would sooner hold youhostage than your imagination – their portrayal in pop culture as of late doesn’t quite jive with history. Somehow, heavy doses of mysticism and heavier amounts of eyeliner are what comes to...

Assassin’s Creed: Liberation Sneaking onto Consoles?

Evidence is mounting in support of Aveline, the series’ first female protagonist, making the move from her PS Vita debut to home consoles.

This graphic leaked all over the internet displays a list of familiar and not so familiar Ubisoft properties, including names for both Assassin’s Creed: Liberation HD – the rumored console port in question – and Assassin’s Creed: Pirates, which is undoubtedly related to the forthcoming Black Flag and its focus on surly individuals that constantly keep the word “Ahoy” ready at the tip of their tongues.

The list of leaked titles, featuring mobile, digital, and free-to-play games, has been confirmed by Ubisoft to be real. More details are incoming September 10th, according to the publisher.

Handheld “exclusive” titles, more and more often, seem to be shedding that bond of exclusivity nowadays, huh? So long as its attached to a best selling franchise, publishers such as Capcom (Resident Evil: Revelations) and Konami (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate) are downright uncomfortable letting their breadwinners stagnate on one device and one device only.

I can see why. I’m a part of the demographic they hope to capture. With no Vita in my ownership and no close plans to alter that fact, I wouldn’t have had a chance to hunker on down with Liberation otherwise. Hopefully it isn’t an “as is” HD port, though – Aveline’s quest wasn’t without hiccups, apparently.

UPDATE: Ubisoft has confirmed console owners will get to pop their blades in 17th century New Orleans once Liberation HD releases for the PC, PS3, and 360 sometime next year.

Upping the scale from the small screen to the flat screen, the original game’s developers, Ubisoft Sofia, are enhancing the audio, finessing the graphics to match ACIII’s visuals, and adjusting the AI. The transition won’t be without loss, however, as missions reliant on the Vita’s touch-pad are getting the axe (or the tomahawk, as it were).