Sony and Ubisoft announce the long rumored Assassin's Creed movie will be occurring after both companies signed a deal to allow the production for the movie to start.

Ubisoft initially had stated they wanted to form their own movie studio after having issues with Hollywood studios either rejecting the offers or wanting to change the story to fit their goals.

Their brand new Ubisoft Motion Pictures studio will be working together with Sony Pictures on the project. Ubisoft will have total creative control in return for the marketing and distribution costs to be covered by Sony.

Based on early info for the potential movie, it appears the story revolves more around a guild of assassin's than just 1 main assassin.

No other details regarding the story or when the film could be potentially released but work is expected to start once both sides finalize the deal.

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Quick News Round-Up:
1) Sony is rumored to be in the process of switching over their studios to begin work on PS4 launch titles once the current year's schedule of games is done. The rumor places about 16 of all the studios owned by Sony have already committed towards development of projects for the next Playstation console with a rumored release of late 2013/2014 depending on what Microsoft does.

2) Based on a few reports, it appears EA is in a big panicking mood after both refusing to allow review copies of Battlefield 3 to be available to most review places and rejecting all except a few hand picked early review scores. A lot of the bigger review places, such as Kotaku and Giantbomb, have stated they won't get their review copy until days after the game is released due to EA refusing to allow any review to show any potential negative aspects of the game until well after consumers have purchased the title.

3) Nintendo will be holding a 3DS-centered press conference with the biggest talking points revolving around Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, and the upcoming firmware update that allows 3D recording abilities. The conference will be streamed live and starts around 8pm ET although Nintendo did not state it would just talk about those 3 topics and could pull a few surprises or announcements.

What game?

We'll get a redesigned 3DS announcement. The second stick add-on is due in the US early next year. They'll announce the redone 3DS at this conference, it'll come out at around the same time as the stick add-on and they'll say something along the lines of "If you don't have a 3DS, you can buy our new model. If you do have a 3DS, you can buy our add-on."

Probably Battlefield 3 Drakul

Great deal on Steam this week. All GTA games for $12.49.

Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto 2
Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes of Liberty City

Not each. Total. Might be worth checking out especially if you have a computer that can handle the realistic mod.

@ GTA deal:

That's literally half a year or more of gameplay.

Glad you clarified that you were talking about the GTA deal and not the possibility of those two wonderful gentleman above and their possible proficiency at playing a video game.

They might be better than you think. Uganda Halo Clan ready to go.

What's the deal with the Bushmen?

iD Software rumored to have "indefinitely postpone" development on Doom 4 due to negative reception and lack of sales in regard to Rage which also was using a newer engine from the studio.

Rumors had stated the studio was current reorganizing and reworking their development of Doom 4 to remove or change aspects of the game which could have been shared from Rage and possible changes to the engine to fix issues people had with Rage (at least on the PC).

According to the studio itself, no games have been postponed or were required to have changes made while any news concerning Doom 4 is only speculation.

id Software parent company and publisher, Zenimax and Bethesda, were also rumored to have demanded some changes to be made to Doom 4 to prevent any chance of the same negative reception or issues occurring again after Rage had some post launch issues.

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1) EA announces the Mass Effect 3 demo will be bundled in every new copy of Battlefield 3 but there are some catches to the deal once the demo actually arrives by January 2012. While the single player demo is avaliable in every copy, multiplayer demo/beta copies will only be playable to those who have Origin accounts or activate them before the start of the multiplayer beta.

2) Blizzard reveals Diablo III will be free to all World of Warcraft subscribers as long as their current subscription has been over 12 months. The offer only is avaliable to annual subscribers and has to be over a year in length and not just in total months since the purchase of WoW to be eligable for the offer.

3) The upcoming SSX game now has an official release date of Feburary 14, 2012 for the US/Canada region while it wasn't confirmed if the European release date will be the same or different based on the press release sent by EA. The game itself is a reboot or revamp of the SSX series and intialy was meant to be more grittier until backlash forced EA to rework the game to also include classic SSX gameplay.

http://www.destructoid.com/new-suiko...y-214230.phtml

New Suikoden game, but for PSP so it probably won't get released outside of Japan :'(

GTA I, II and, I think, London are already free to download on the R* site, along with some other non-GTA games.
It's still a good deal for the 3D games.

That sucks. I already bought the classic pack, but if I wanted to buy just GTA4 and the DLC I'd be paying more than if I bought the whole pack...

I'll probably just wait until the holiday sale anyway. Will probably be like $5 for GTA4 and the DLC. I bought the classic pack for like $5 or some ridiculous price last year.

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According to Kotaku, the PS3 could be hacked again with the new potential threat being compared to the PSN Outage attack should it actually occur in the near future.

The new dongle device works in a similar way to the previous one Sony said they managed to remove with the changes to the PSN firmware (PSN 2.0) but the new device was able to get around all the new security features from the recent firmware updates.

It could also be troubling to Sony who had promised the PS3 and PSN couldn't be hacked that badly again and the new changes to PSN were designed to prevent it from ever occurring again.

http://kotaku.com/5851968/has-the-pl...-cracked-again

EDIT: It appears there is some issues with Kotaku's report ranging from the new dongle only was meant for "older firmware" PS3s models and not for hacking, being just a new jailbreak but not affect PSN, or being the start of a future attack.

SUCK MY DICK NBA JAM!!

Oh wow, did Kotaku ever get the wrong end of the stick there. It just let's you play newer firmware games on 3.55, the hack able firmware.

As impossible as typing Skyword Sword into Gamestop.com :-\

and not even connected to the main story :(

You have the worst reasons for not getting a videogame from a certain store.

Just get the game. You're not selling your soul to the fuckers.

Buy it from ebay or amazon or craiglist... used.

Square-Enix reveals some new details concerning the second attempt of Final Fantasy XIV (titled Final Fantasy XIV Version 2.0) with the game potentially expanding to smartphones and the Xbox 360.

Initially the game was meant or at least rumored to be just a PS3 exclusive but financial struggles for the company along with the constant negative impressions by both the media and the public forced Square-Enix to rehaul the entire project.

Besides the change in direction and the reworked character designs, the producer of the game mentioned the development of an in-game store/auction to take advantage of a possible mobile and PS Vita support. This would allow users the ability to purchase items with real cash or even use the devices as an app or another way of checking the inventory.

While the top priority is still for the PS3 version of the game, the producer also mentioned the company is currently in talks with Microsoft to have the game be available for the Xbox 360. This comes weeks after it was leaked Square-Enix was looking for Xbox 360 programmers to work on a Final Fantasy project.

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1) Going along with NBA Jam and NFL Blitz getting series revivals, EA announces the FIFA Street series will be joining the group as a new game in the series is set to arrive next year. All the previous Street modes will return along with a type of "Horde Mode" done in a Last Man Standing style where each goal scored removes an opposition player from the field.

2) Blizzard reveals people who purchase the Diablo III collection's edition will get a free 4 month WoW subsciprion as a bonus. A console port of the game was leaked to be in development although the company will not make any official announcements until after the PC release of the game.

3) As part of Nintendo of Europe's promotion for the European release of Kirby's Return to Dream Land for the Wii, the NES classic of Kirby's Adventure will be joining the list of games getting the 3D Classic treatment on the eshop. The 3D Classic is expected to arrive when the Wii game is released on November 25 but no details if the eShop game will also be coming to the US/Canada and Japan.

While Minecraft was first announced at E3 2011 to be arriving on the Xbox 360, the official playable debut of the game will occur next month during the MineCon convention in Las Vegas.

The playable debut will act as the official "launch party" for the game as both Microsoft and the creator of Minecraft have big plans to celebrate the occasion.

No actual details of the game were revealed besides the original news from E3 of the XBLA port keeping the same blocky visuals from the PC and the inclusion of Kinect controls.

The game is being co-developed with 4J Studios from Microsoft while the creator of Minecraft has been overseeing the development of the game. The game is still set for a Spring 2012 release date.

A mobile version for both the iOS and Android will also be making their official debuts at MineCon next month as well.

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1) While EA currently has development kits for the Wii U and DICE has just finished working on Battlefield 3, DICE admits they have no current plans or projects involving the Wii U at the moment. They didn't specifically state Battlefield 3 wouldn't be ported to the Wii U but their current plans with the development kits are more at the testing and tinkering stage than actual development of any potential titles.

2) In an interview with Eurogamer, an executive producer from EA admits they could be reviving the Syndicate series more towards the traditional style than the remake/reboot attempt set for 2012. It was even hinted the series could return to the PC while consoles could get more of the actiony remake for games in the series.

3) Nintendo announces 2 new DSi bundles (Metallic Rose and Midnight Blue) will be arriving on November 6 for the price of $169.99. Mario vs Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! was chosen as the free game to be included in each bundle.

According to sources close to Nintendo, the company is about to post a mid-year loss of about $1.3 billion which exceeds even the company's own worst case scenario for the report.

The loss would end up being 2x larger than Nintendo was predicting and about 20x larger than last year's loss for the mid-year report.

Slower than usual release schedule by Nintendo contributed to a than normal sales for both hardware and Nintendo published software. The weak sales by the 3DS in comparisons to expectations also hurt while Nintendo also allowed third parties more selling time before pumping out the big sellers by the company.

The only good news for the company is their big releases for both the 3DS and Wii arrives after the report which is expected to help the company post a profit for the overall fiscal year ending in March 2012. The rumored Wii U launch would also help boost next year's mid-term report.

In terms of actual revenue, the company did make money for the mid-year but not at the expected rate the company nor analysts predicted. It was low enough to dethrone Nintendo from #1 spot in Japan in years with Namco-Bandi making the most money for the mid-term period even though the numbers were close.

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1) The European version of the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection has been delayed from a late 2011 date to now a February 3rd, 2012 with no official reason given by Konami. The US/Canada and Japan versions will still arrive on time for its November 8, 2011 release date.

2) Japan's biggest gaming magazine, Famitsu, reveals memory cards are an absolute requirement for PS Vita games that don't have save ability built-in. The Vita will end up refusing to boot games if a memory card is not inserted.
List of known launch games requiring the mem stick => http://www.screwattack.com/news/some...ut-memory-card

3) While Sega is reviving the Classic Sonic gameplay for the upcoming Sonic Generations game, the company announces they have no plans of making another Sonic game in the classic style outside of Sonic 4. The brand manager for the company admitted the only reason Classic Sonic was brought back was only due to the 20th anniversary of the series and not an actual business decision for future games.

Nintendo is always so stupid with the release of their systems lately. You rarely get the killer app for months, if not a year, and the first inflow of games are all about the gimmick more than the gameplay and tend to be mostly mini games. I can understand allowing time for third parties to get their shit in, but it definitely makes them suffer.

Plus there's the fact that, at least with their handheld devices, you should never buy the first one unless you're a diehard gamer because there will be one one or two years down the line that is vastly superior AND have a better library. The iPhone strategy is fine for some devices, but not for a game system. You're essentially a beta tester who pays more for a far less superior product.

With the 3DS, Nintendo finally listened to all the third party companies (ex. EA) who always kept complaining it was impossible to get Nintendo-like sales if Nintendo kept releasing their big hits all the time.

So with the 3DS, Nintendo ended up using their lower tier or N64 games to help show off the 3D effects and instead third party companies flopped badly either producing shit (ex. EA's half-ass Madden 3D) or decided to delay/cancel games.

Wii made some sense because Nintendo went all out in 2010 and then used 2011 to clean up the project schedule so they can start on the Wii U launch games. It didn't help that third party companies also abandoned the system once 2011 occurred and nobody wanted to compete with Nintendo for the Fall because of the new Zelda game launching in that period.

Yeah but it's not like this is the first system to do this. Look at Wii's launch line up. The best thing on there was a fucking Gamecube port. DS had Mario 64 with the failed gimmick of it having a digital analog stick.

I understand holding back your big franchises and not flooding the market with them, but they really should be releasing one of them alongside the console to legitimately show off what it can do.

And honestly, 90% of the third party games released on Nintendo hardware since the DS launched is fucking shit. They don't look for quality anymore, it's about touting a huge library of mini game collections.

Isn't that the game with like $1000 worth of DLC?

Nah, that was it's prequel.

If this was cheaper than £15.99 with the zombie DLC, I'd be all over it.