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Publisher responds to yesterday's backlash, stresses importance of diversity to series creators
Read More »Ubisoft responds to Assassin’s Creed Unity female omission as devs question reasoning
Publisher Ubisoft has distanced itself from claims that high workloads are behind its omission of playable female characters in the four-player co-op focused Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Ubisoft technical director James Therien yesterday said that adding playable women into the game would have created an unmanageable workload. Now, however, an official …
Read More »Former Creed animator questions lack of females in Unity
Jonathan Cooper reveals secrets of series animation past
Read More »Of men and women: Animators explain Ubisoft’s gender conundrum
Developers reveal implementing both male and female characters may be harder than you might think
Read More »No female characters for four-player Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Assassin’s Creed: Unity will for the first time allow four players to work together – but not, it seems, for them to play as a female character. That’s the claim of Ubisoft technical director James Therien, who has argued that while the ten separate studios working on Unity have the …
Read More »UBISOFT: Assassin’s Creed Unity gets release date
Ubisoft’s frankly brilliant looking new Assassin’s Creed has a release date. It’s out October 28th. That’s before Call of Duty, for those that like the competition between these things. It looks great. It was at the Xbox press conference, too, and it looked great then. It’s a bit different in …
Read More »E3 2014: Assassin’s Creed Unity introduces four-play co-op
First next-gen exclusive Assassin's Creed demoed at Xbox E3 press conference
Read More »Microsoft and Ubisoft release HTML5 Assassin’s Creed web game demo
Assassin's Creed Pirates has been built to adapt to any screen resolution or device
Read More »PS3 and 360 Assassin’s Creed title still due in 2014
Ubisoft has reiterated its desire to release an Assassin’s Creed title on last-gen titles this year. The publisher first said that an AC game would hit PS3 and Xbox 360 when it announced Assassin’s Creed: Unity for PS4, Xbox One and PC in March. Now CVG reports that Ubisoft boss …
Read More »Ubisoft assigns 10 studios to Assassin’s Creed Unity
Montreal leading nine other internal devs on next-gen blockbuster
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