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  • OnLive now running on Macs

    OnLive now running on Macs

    Posted on June 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Get thee to the downloadery for OnLive now works on Macs. You can download a small file to bring up the OnLive client and play Assassisn's Creed and other exciting games. As you recall, OnLive is essentially a game streaming engine for Macs and PCs. All of the heavy lifting happens in the cloud and the company simply streams audio and video to your desktop. Think of it as video-on-demand on crack.

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  • OnLive Cloud Gaming Service goes live June 17

    OnLive Cloud Gaming Service goes live June 17

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Take that, naysayers! OnLive, the cloud gaming service designed to allow you to play almost any game over the Internet is going live on June 17 and, thanks to a partnership with AT&T, the service is free the first year and $4.95/month after that. You can attempt to sign up here. OnLive has also released a roster [...]

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  • EA fellow bitten by his own company’s DRM in Command and Conquer 4, questions the sense of it all

    EA fellow bitten by his own company’s DRM in Command and Conquer 4, questions the sense of it all

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Jeff Green used to work at Games For Windows magazine before taking a sweet gig at EA, but that little fact won't silence his criticism of the DRM found in Command and Conquer 4. He tweeted white-hot rage when, as everyone on the Internet predicted, this "always-on" nonsense worked as intended, and prevented a law-abiding citizen from playing his game.

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  • Ubisoft tries to spin DRM server crash, says the games are just too popular for their own good!

    Ubisoft tries to spin DRM server crash, says the games are just too popular for their own good!

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Oh, Ubisoft. You so quickly went from the guys that brought us Splinter Cell (young people: Splinter Cell used to be cool in the early to mid 2000s) to the guys that have created the stupidest DRM known to man. Oh, and you're also incapable of telling the truth. The authentication servers for Assassin's Creed II (I thought that comes out tomorrow?) and Silent Hunter V were completely inaccessible for a number of people yesterday. Why? Ubisoft claimed it was because of "exceptional demand," but the real reason is that some punk kids (I assume it's punk kids) decided to launch a denial of service attack. I suppose, technically, a denial of service attack involves, on some level, demand...

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  • Assassin’s Creed II DRM proves that Ubisoft hates your guts and wants to beat you up after school

    Assassin’s Creed II DRM proves that Ubisoft hates your guts and wants to beat you up after school

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Fellow PC gamers: it's time to freak out. You're familiar with Ubisoft's newfangled DRM scheme that requires you be online in order to play its games, right? It's 100 percent as awful as we had thought it would be. PC Gamer recently played Assassin's Creed II, and discovered what a pain the in the ass the DRM really, truly is. Get this: every time you lose your Internet connection the game boots you to the main menu, and all progress made from the last save point is thrown out the window. This isn't an MMO, mind you, but a plain ol' single player game. In other words, no Internet, no game. Bravo, Ubisoft.

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  • Assassin’s Creed III could hit shelves as early as April 2010

    Assassin’s Creed III could hit shelves as early as April 2010

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Experiencing Assassin's Creed blues now that you've finished the game, unlocked Altair's armor, found all the glyphs, and have collected all 100 impossible-to-find feathers? Don't fret friends. According to Ubisoft's financial release this morning, Assassin's Creed III will be released in fiscal year 2011, which begins in April 2010. It was previously thought that this would only be an expansion to Assassin's Creed II, but Ubisoft has confirmed it is a new title featuring Ezio, and will have an online multiplayer mode.

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  • Everything you need to know about Halo: Reach

    Everything you need to know about Halo: Reach

    Posted on January 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Bungie has done a great job of making fans salivate over Halo: Reach by keeping most the aspects of the game under wraps. Thus far, all the info we have been able to discern has come from the trailers which Bungie released--until now. Yesterday, leaked pictures (shown below) of an upcoming Game Informer magazine hit the web, and the information is quite revealing. It looks like the team at Bungie is going all out on this title. The magazine deals mostly with the campaign--profiling new weapons, characters, and vehicles, but tidbits regarding the multiplayer experience were included as well. All the info we have gathered is after the jump.

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  • Assassin’s Creed II DLC priced and dated: Now you can finish the game

    Assassin’s Creed II DLC priced and dated: Now you can finish the game

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Like with every game not called World of Warcraft, I played Assassin's Creed II for a solid two or three hours, and it's been collecting dust ever since then. This is relevant because, what, Ubisoft sold me (and all of you!) an incomplete game? Apparently! The game's upcoming DLC, Sequence 12: Battle of Forli and Sequence 13: Bonfire of the Vanities, which go on sale in January and February, “complete” the game. At least they're cheap: $3.99 and $4.99.

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  • CrunchDeals: Assassin’s Creed II for $40

    CrunchDeals: Assassin’s Creed II for $40

    Posted on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Amazon.com has dropped the price of Assassin’s Creed II for Xbox 360 and PS3 down to $39.78, today only.

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  • Video: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands: John Morrison jumps around, fights a sand monster

    Video: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands: John Morrison jumps around, fights a sand monster

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Ubisoft hasn't given up on the Prince of Persia series just yet (despite the fact that Assassin's Creed is essentially Persia of Persia with a different pair of shoes). There's the movie with that guy, and the just-announced Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. It's coming out in May of 2010 for all the usual suspects.

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  • Daily Crunch: Floor Pie Edition

    Daily Crunch: Floor Pie Edition

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Review: Assassin’s Creed 2 CrunchGear in China: Seeing Where the Tech Sausage Is Made The Freedom Tray: Made in America, used everywhere

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  • Review: Assassin’s Creed 2

    Review: Assassin’s Creed 2

    Posted on December 2, 2009 | No Comments
    AC2_Screenshot_008Ubisoft needed to publish something amazing given their anemic financials thus far this year, and Assassin's Creed 2 delivered. Assassin's Creed 2 was simply put, amazing. The sequel vastly improves upon Assassin's Creed which given all the hype, was disappointing to say the least. The game plays on the strengths of Assassin's Creed, most notably the free-running, and is no longer monotonous and repetitive, like its predecessor. If you want to complete all of the quests in this game, I would suggest setting aside around 35-40 hours. It took me a little over 25 hours to complete the main quest, as well as completing about 80% of the side quests (feathers notwithstanding, there was no way I was going to look for 100 of those). If you never played Assassin's Creed, I suggest taking the time to look online for synopses of the game so that you get a feel for what happened as Assassin's Creed 2 does a poor job of rehashing the tale. I played the first game almost a year ago so i was hazy on the plot and was a bit disappointed that I had to look up the Wikipedia page to figure out what was going on. Ubisoft could have done a better job here by having some flashbacks, or even some dialogue at the beginning of the game to help those who are new, or haven't played in a while.

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  • A collection of reasonably priced Xbox 360 games

    A collection of reasonably priced Xbox 360 games

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    This is the worst time to be a gamer. Yeah, it's great that so many good games have come out recently (take your pick from New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, etc.), but it's pretty difficult to shell out $60+ every other day in the span of two weeks.

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  • Man alive: Valve owns 70 percent of the digital distribution business

    Man alive: Valve owns 70 percent of the digital distribution business

    Posted on November 20, 2009 | No Comments
    There really is something to be said about being the first to the dance. I'm pretty sure we can all agree that Steam was the first big digital distribution service for video games, and I also think we can all agree that it was something of a success. But how big a success? Stardock, which owns the Impulse distribution service (and published Sins of a Solar Empire), believes that Steam enjoys 70 percent market share of the digital distribution business.

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  • Another big day in gaming: Assassin’s Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2 & Tony Hawk Part 900

    Another big day in gaming: Assassin’s Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2 & Tony Hawk Part 900

    Posted on November 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Today's another big day in gaming, friends. (You'll notice that we're practically a game blog now. I blame the publishers for releasing the biggest games of the year within a few days of each other.) Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed II, Valve's Left 4 Dead 2, and Activision's Tony Hawk Ride come out today (I assume the Tony Hawk franchise is still around because it's still popular. I haven't played one since Tony Hawk 4.)

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