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Ubisoft has released a new trailer for Splinter Cell: Blacklist, where players take on the role of lethal operative Sam Fisher who must stop an international terrorist group behind “The Blacklist,” who is conducting a series of escalating attacks on U.S. assets. Operating under the newly-formed Fourth Echelon unit, Sam and his team have been entrusted by the US President to hunt down these terrorists by any means necessary and stop the Blacklist countdown before it reaches zero. Read the rest of this entry »

EA Visceral has released a new trailer for Army of Two: Devil’s Cartel, and apparently there’s nowhere to hide from the explosive destruction of Overkill in Army of TWO The Devil’s Cartel. Walls will crumble, buildings will fall, and your enemies won’t be able to escape in one piece. Army of Two: Devil’s Cartel will be available on March 26th for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, with an expected M for Mature content rating. Pre order the game and get upgraded to the exclusive Army of TWO The Devil’s Cartel Overkill Edition, which includes three bonus Contracts. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft announced the release of Far Cry Outpost yesterday, a new mobile companion app for Far Cry 3®, now available in EMEA territories on iOS and Android platforms.  With this Far Cry 3 mobile app for Multiplayer and Co-op, players can decode the encrypted data found during game sessions to earn advanced Weapon mods and customize their Loadouts on the go. Far Cry outpost also allows players to track their progress through the daily and weekly challenges, check out their stats and compare with their friends, and keep track of the maps created via the in game map editor. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft has announced that the second Assassin’s Creed III downloadable content pack The Battle Hardened is now available on Microsoft’s Xbox 360^®, and will be available on January 9 on PlayStation^®3 and January 15 on Windows PC. The Battle Hardened pack extends the Assassin’s Creed III multiplayer experience with new playable characters and maps: Read the rest of this entry »

For everyone who has been following Joel’s decent into madness this December – prophesying the end times through interviews, tweets and videos – it is probably not surprising to hear that today, after 11:11 UTC has come and gone on December 21^st, he is a very happy man. In his third and final ‘End of Days’ video log we follow him into the bunker where he does one or two things that probably warrants a ‘viewer discretion’ advisory, before learning from Funcom’s CEO that the world is still standing and that everything he believed in was all a hoax. Read the rest of this entry »

These are truly exciting times to be following The Secret World. Not only did Funcomremove the required subscription fee last week, this week the company released the fifth major content update, ‘Issue #5: The Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn’ which is chock full of great content including a special in-game end of days event. Log in now to check out some of the awesome stuff awaiting you, such as a new Auxiliary Weapon – the Quantum Brace, fresh missions and a brand new and revealing story arc. Read the rest of this entry »

Available beginning today, the Zodiac Tournament (400MSP or $4.99) add-on for Square Enix and United Front Games’ Sleeping Dogs invites players to become the dragon and unleash their fists of fury. Invited to an exclusive combat tournament on a hidden island off the coast of Hong Kong, Wei Shen faces the ultimate test of his mastery of martial arts, taking on the world’s greatest warriors in a fight… to the death. Set on the remote Zodiac Island, a crumbling temple complex plays host to a series of ancient arenas, each more complex and deadly than the last. Avoiding deadly fire pits or spike-clad ceilings are merely a distraction when up against a collection of cold-blooded killers from every discipline of close-quarters combat. Wei must utilise his full move set, combined with a few new ones picked up on the way, to defeat all that stand in his way and take-out  the island’s big boss. Read the rest of this entry »

Funcom is excited to announce that Issue #5; The Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn has just gone live. This update introduces much new content, and also sets the stage for a very special in-game event called the End of Days. This event starts on the 21^st of December and offers tons of new challenges. A competition is held during the event to reward those who do the most to stem the tide of this rising darkness. Catch the exclusive Issue #5 Preview Video narrated by Game Director Joel Bylos, and get a sneak peek into all the fresh content and some of the new and brutal monsters which bring the apocalypse. Read the rest of this entry »

As the world heads for its inevitable doom on December 21^st, tens of thousands of conspiracy theorists are working around the clock to unlock the mysteries of Funcom’s latest alternate reality game (ARG) set in and around ‘The Secret World’ universe. Since pre-registration began on December 3^rd, participants have spent over 30,000 hours working side-by-side solving riddles, cracking puzzles and unlocking rewards in the deep, complex ARG experience which focuses on the imminent end of days and how we can prepare ourselves for what is to come. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft^® has announced that Assassin’s Creed^® 3 is the fastest-selling game in the company’s history, with total sell-through topping the 7 million mark worldwide just one month after its release. Fans have wasted no time exploring the game’s open world, and getting involved in the action-packed story. In solo missions alone, players have accumulated more than 82 centuries of gaming time and committed more than 3 billion assassinations. The deadly action continues in the multiplayer, where more than twice as many players have joined the multiplayer mode compared to Assassin’s Creed^® Revelations. To date, more than 250 million assassinations have been performed in more than 5 billion multiplayer sessions. Read the rest of this entry »