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New Assassin's Creed Next Year, Will Have Multiplayer

Posted by Soulskill on from the two-assassins-one-creed dept.

Ubisoft has announced that the next stand-alone Assassin's Creed title will come out next year, and it will be the first in the series to come with an online multiplayer mode. The company also said it will be "shoring up its focus on competitive AAA core titles on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3" in the coming year, making mention of upcoming releases for the Tom Clancy game series and a new Prince of Persia title.

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  1. Re:No PC version? by marmoset · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Game corporation in "focusing on platforms where they make money" shocker.

  2. Re:No PC version? by BeardsmoreA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or to look at it another way, an XBox is a tightly specified closed platform and so waaaaaay easier to do proper robust testing on than the plethora of possible hardware combinations in the generic PC market.

  3. Re:No PC version? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think its about piracy. If they release all versions at the same times, people will pirate it for their pc rather than buying it for their console. By staggering the releases, impatient gamers have to pay for the game. Sure, you can pirate console games if you mod your console, but that's usually too much of a hassle for the aforementioned impatient gamers.

    There's still money to be made from honest PC gamers, so the game eventually gets a PC release, and this way the pirates who will buy the game if they can't download have to pay.

  4. Multiplayer? Oh, shit. by Lilith's+Heart-shape · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Looks like the single-player campaign in Assassin's Creed III is going to suck.

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