Assassin's Creed: Revelation
Video Game News Digest Weekly: Assassin’s Creed, Gamefly, PS3, FIFA Street
- by Robert Sutherland (@sutherland604
- Video game rental service Gamefly is going to offer games for sale in the new year. The service will allow users to buy either PC or Mac games online through their website. Early figures show that over 1500 games will be available for purchase once the service is available. This is a big step for the company as they currently only offer a snail-mail rental service to its subscribers. Will this be enough to take a bite out of Steam’s stranglehold on the online video game purchasing market? I’m still waiting for a comparable Canadian service.
- It was recently announced that the good ol’ Street series from EA Sports is making a return with FIFA Street. The game is more like an arcade-style sports game then a straight sim like the existing FIFA franchise. You may remember the last Fifa Street back in 2009 – well it is coming back in 2012 and only time will tell if the sub-genre will last or get put back on the shelf.
FIFA Street
- PS3 price drops $50 across the board. All three formats of the PS3 dropped in price, including the Move Bundle version.
- One of my personal favourite latest video game series, Assassin’s Creed, has a slick-looking vignette that incorporates in-game cut scenes, concept artwork, a graphic novel & some clips of the live action web series. Check out the video here:
- In other Assassin’s Creed news, a lengthy early walkthrough of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Revelations has surfaced on the official Ubisoft site. Check out the lead-in to the next chapter:
- Trouble is brewing in the Nintendo camp. After a price cut to the fledgling 3DS, third party publishers are uncertain if the platform is worth putting development dollars into for games. One thing that Nintendo has always done has been able to survive quite well with little to no third party publishers in the early stages of a new console or handheld. The Wii was marred by similar problems when it launched but only time will tell if Nintendo’s 3D handheld will survive without the support of third party titles.
