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Ubisoft has sent over an updated release schedule of titles slated for 2012, and it looks as though double packs for Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six Vegas, Splinter Cell and Far Cry 2 are on the way in March.

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Ubisoft has announced Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood will be available for digital download over PSN August 3 for €29.99. Alongside the game, 10 avatars at a price of €0.49/ £0.40 each and two of these, Ezio and the Harlequin, will be exclusive to PS Plus users and come free with purchase of ACB HDD. The firm is also dropping the price of Assassin’s Creed 2 for PS Plus members by 20 percent and it comes with the DLC bundle including Sequence 12, Sequence 13 and all unlockable content for free once the game is downloaded. The original Assassin’s Creed will also be offered 50 percent off for digital download, only for PS Plus members.

The Major has put up a list of what you can expect to hit Xbox Live Marketplace, and highlights this week include the Liars and Cheaters pack now available for Red Dead Redemption, L4D2: The Passing as the DotW, and Lara Croft Anniversary as this week’s Game on Demand.

Get it all below.

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Ubisoft has cut prices in its PC digital download store, with several of its titles now reduced by 50 percent.

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Ubisoft has announced via its financial results today that Assassin’s Creed II has moved almost 9 million units worldwide.

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MI6 has announced that Assassin’s Creed 2 has won the most awards for best marketing work in the videogame industry.

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Yesterday, a report from PC Gamer surfaced stating that since an internet connection’s required to play Assassin’s Creed II on PC, should you lose your internet connection while playing, all progress would be lost and you would be taken back to the menu screen.

Ubisoft says that’s not the case.

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Ubisoft has said that assassination multiplayer will be included in the new Assassin’s Creed game.

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Ubisoft has tweeted that the first bit of Assassin’s Creed II DLC will be released on January 28.

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Ubisoft’s confirmed that a new Assassin’s Creed game is to release in its coming fiscal year.

It’ll be the first in the series to have an online multiplayer mode.

The company also said today that Assassin’s Creed II has exceeded the 6 million units sold mark, and fully expects the title to reach 9 million sell-in units by March 2010.

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Apparently, some Assassins Creed 2 players are reporting a glitch that traps the player in the Hideout with no way out of it.

The error occurs when players save and shut the console down after finishing Chapter 11. Upon restarting,  the only way to escape the Hideout is to begin the game anew.

CVG has contacted Ubisoft, and until a response is issued, the site recommends you not “quit out of the game”.

Just go play something else until a fix or workaround is announced, we reckon.

More through the link.

Looks like Assassin’s Creed II has been given the Digital Foundry treatment with the latest Face-Off between the 360 and PS3 versions of the game.

Here’s the final analysis:

“It’s fair to say that while Assassin’s Creed II has a number of important advantages on Xbox 360, the crucial thing is that the improvements to the PS3 engine are such that the performance deficit isn’t going to get in the way of having a great time.

“It’s an essential game on both platforms, but if you’ve got both consoles, the 360 version is clearly the more solid performer.”

You can read the full thing through here, and check out the video here.

Assassin’s Creed II reviews are starting to go live, and the general consensus is that you should go get the game, yesterday.

It landed on US shores today, and the official release date for Europe is November 20, but will we will see how long that street date lasts.

Here’s a list of reviews, and we will continue to update it as more go live:

• Eurogamer: 9/10
• Kotaku: NA
• Joystiq: NA
• CVG: 9.4/10
• IGN: 9.2/10
• IGN UK: 8.8/10
• IGN AUS: 9/10
• Eurogamer Germany: 8/10
• Edge: 8/10
• EveryEye (Italy): 9.5/10
• Giantbomb: 4/5
• Gamespot: 9/10
• Jeux Video: 18/20
• Gamer 365 (Hungary): 9.5/10
• GameTrailers: 9.2/10
• VideoGamesDaily: 8/10
• MTV: NA
• 1UP: A-

Good Lord, what a massive day in game releases. Those with fat wallets will be having a field day, swimming around on the floor with all their lovely games.

The rest with anorexic wallets will just have to pick one and wait on Santa to bring more – or get some from a very giving stranger driving a van. He may look a bit mad with that hair and strange gleam in his eye, but the clown mask beside him on the passenger’s seat with fishing line and surgical gloves says “good times ahead” and you know it.

Here’s a list of the games that are out in the US today with European dates beside ‘em if different:

• Assassin’s Creed 2 (PC in 2010) (Nov 20)
• Left 4 Dead 2
• LittleBigPlanet PSP
• Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (Nov 27)
• God of War Collection (2010)
• Tony Hawk: RIDE (Dec 4)
• NCAA Basketball 10 (NA)
• Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines (Nov 20)
• Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen! (Dec 4)
• Chaotic: Shadow Warriors (NA)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Tagforce 4 (NA)
• LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues (Nov 20)
• The Sim 3: World Adventures Expansion (out yesterday actually) (Nov 20)
• SingStar Latino (TBA)
• Planet 51 (Nov 27)

There may be more, and if we missed any, just let us know.

Ubisoft has released the full version of its Assassin’s Creed II short film, Lineage, which fills you in on the story leading up to the game.

CVG has all four parts posted, for your viewing pleasure.

It was announced on Thursday that the first part of the short had been viewed 1.7 million times in the first 24-hours on Ubisoft’s YouTube channel.

Game’s out next week. Exciting.

A new video released by Ubisoft for Assassin’s Creed 2 introduces us to Ezio’s arms dealer, Leonardo da Vinci.

It’s a rather short video, basically detailing his weapons like his dual blades and his secret gun.

No, that is not a euphemism. It’s a real gun, perverts.

Watch on through the break.

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We asked you what you wanted to know about Assassin’s Creed II. You gave us questions. We went to London and asked them to game director Benoit Lambert. He answered them.

The results are below. For the record, what we saw of the game – a mission in Venice – looked incredible.

Did you get your question asked? Hit the link to find out.

Assassin’s Creed II ships for 360 and PS3 on November 20. The PC version’s just been pushed into the first quarter of next year.

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Ubisoft has released another video for Assassin’s Creed II, this one straight from TGS.

CVG has it here.

Revenge never looked so damn good.

Go watch.

Ubi’s released stunning TGS assets for Assassin’s Creed 2 – IGN, unsurprisingly, has them all.

They show off the Florence section we were lucky enough to play earlier this week. We’ll be bringing you the answers to tons of your questions on the game in general tomorrow.

It releases on November 20 for PC, PS3 and 360.

Gamers who did not preorder Assassin’s Creed II from Gamestop need not worry about missing out on the two “exclusive” maps, because Ubisoft plans to release those to the public at a later date.

“Eventually everyone will have the entire game,” the game’s creative director Patrice Desilets told Kotaku. “I made sure of that.

“Because I’m Canadian, I don’t have the same shops as you do. So I wanted to make sure I could at least someday play everything in the game. Eventually there’s going to be, ‘okay, let’s unlock everything’.”

Palazzo Medici and Santa Maria Dei Frari are currently only available through preordering and Desilets did not when the content would be made available nor how much, if anything, it will cost.

More through the link.