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#assassinscreed As I leapt into the fire, dying for the 28th time, I didn't feel anger or frustration; I felt resignation and a little bit of wonder. How, I asked aloud, to no one in particular. How on earth does something this awful wind up in a big-budget video game in the year 2012? More »

#toysrustowers Why spend hours maintaining a virtual business for no real reward when you can spend hours building a virtual Toys'R'Us and earn valuable coupons? More »

#assassinscreed Unveiled at Friday night's VGAs, the trailer for Assassin's Creed III's next big DLC throws players into a world where George Washington became a malevolent despot instead of America's first president. Considering how Connor was a close ally of the iconic general in Assassin's Creed III, the potential for drama is high in this expansion. More »

Assassin's Creed 3's "Tyranny of King Washington," is a three-part DLC series exploring the history of George Washington seeking unlimited power, foregoing the silly notion of presidency and ruling with painful benevolence.

The Assassin's Creed 3 Season Pass covers five downloadable content packs (one already out now) and is currently available for $30 off PSN and Xbox Live, with pre-orders available at GameStop and Best Buy. At GameStop they'll accept three beaver hides in trade for the season pass.

#farcry Since you can't charter a joyflight to give you a leisurely look at Far Cry 3 in its entirety, you'll just have to do the next best thing: watch someone jump off a roof wearing a wingsuit and film it. More »

#rumor Ubisoft Brazil managing director Bertrand Chaverot has reportedly told local site techtudo that the next game in the publisher's blockbuster series will be taking place in the South American nation. More »

#zombiu ZombiU's got plenty going for it—it's Demon Souls meets FPS, for one. That's pretty great. You shoot zombies in it; people love that. Really, there's no shortage of possible ways to sell this game. More »

#farcry And the tigers wept, and the tapirs sang: Ubisoft has confirmed that they're working on a patch for Far Cry 3 that will let players adjust or remove the game's clutter-y user interface. More »

Downloading the Hidden Secrets DLC pack for Assassin's Creed 3 caused "a very small number of players" to lose their save data, Ubisoft wrote on its forums. One player began a thread describing the issue and a few others joined in to share their own tales of woe. Ubisoft responded with the following message:

"Just a quick heads up, we're able to reproduce this issue at the studio and are working on a fix/workaround. From what we can tell, this problem seems to be rare and should generally only affect a very small number of players. That said, we're taking the speedy and complete resolution of this very seriously."

Barring a complete fix, Ubisoft offered a tip to avoid the glitch:

"Do not load your saved AC3 game while the DLC is downloading in the background. This appears to be the key trigger for this bug. You can do anything else you want to do, just don't load up your saved game and play it while the DLC is downloading."

Hidden Secrets launched for Assassin's Creed 3 Season Pass holders on December 4 and drops for the public on December 11.

Downloading the Hidden Secrets DLC pack for Assassin's Creed 3 caused "a very small number of players" to lose their save data, Ubisoft wrote on its forums. One player began a thread describing the issue and a few others joined in to share their own tales of woe. Ubisoft responded with the following message:

"Just a quick heads up, we're able to reproduce this issue at the studio and are working on a fix/workaround. From what we can tell, this problem seems to be rare and should generally only affect a very small number of players. That said, we're taking the speedy and complete resolution of this very seriously."

Barring a complete fix, Ubisoft offered a tip to avoid the glitch:

"Do not load your saved AC3 game while the DLC is downloading in the background. This appears to be the key trigger for this bug. You can do anything else you want to do, just don't load up your saved game and play it while the DLC is downloading."

Hidden Secrets launched for Assassin's Creed 3 Season Pass holders on December 4 and drops for the public on December 11.

#assassinscreed There's a bug - thankfully, a relatively rare one - that's wiping people's save data under certain circumstances when downloading the game's new DLC. More »

#farcry Far Cry 3 is a very good game. So good that, even after beating the main story, all of the radio towers and a good percentage of the outposts, I've started a new game and am still playing. More »

#farcry3 Far Cry 3 does something interesting with its protagonist Jason, presenting him not as a bloodthirsty killer with military training, but as some kid, thrust into a situation well outside his abilities or understanding. More »

#assassinscreed Thomas Deer is a cultural liaison officer at the Kahnawake Language and Cultural Centre. He helped Ubisoft out on Assassin's Creed III, and did one hell of a job making sure it became easily the best representation of Native Americans in a video game. More »

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#mclovin It's cool that Christopher "McLovin" Mintz-Plasse is in Far Cry 3, though perhaps funnier that the poor kid is doomed to be called "McLovin" for the rest of his life. I mean I still call Sean William Scott "Stifler" even all these years later. More »

Far Cry 3 concludes the 2012 holiday review season for big budget games on a high note. Beyond explaining the game's excellence, our review of Far Cry 3 also held a valuable life lesson: "Goats ... are not to be trusted."

• Eurogamer (100/100): "Far Cry 3 is all the best things about open-world gaming. It's a glorious anecdote factory, where you manufacture brilliant new memories every time you wake up in a safehouse and head out into the jungle. ... And it always lets you play, but it also controls the tempo - sometimes a little heavy-handedly, but always with good intentions."
• Gamespot (90/100): "Stretches of unpredictable exploration and free-form hunting alternate with challenging pirate confrontations, sometimes culminating with a rocket blast to the helicopter hounding you from above. This is an ambitious and finely tuned adventure that gets better and better as you play."
• Game Informer (90/100): "After two remarkable but uneven offerings, Far Cry finally pulls everything together in the third installment. The diverse open-world action, compelling story, and an alluring environment that begs exploration are all high water marks for the series. This is an island adventure all shooter fans should experience. "
• IGN (90/100): "Far Cry 3 is important for the same reason as Far Cry 2. It's a shooter that considers shooters thoughtfully, both in the way they're designed and the way we play them, and then asks us to do the same. Should massacring hundreds be a great way to entertain ourselves? Maybe not. But it is. "
• Destructoid (80/100): "While riddled with minor gripes, there is no one overwhelming, glaring fault that threatens to drag the whole experience down. With the third installment in the Far Cry series, Ubisoft has managed to deliver a game that provides not one, not two, but three well-crafted experiences that may vary in terms of longevity but all manage to be of uniform quality."

The excellent Rayman Jungle Run has been updated with new content on both iOS and Android. The update includes a new world called Potpourri, which features 9 levels. It also includes a new Land of the Livid Dead level. Potpourri features new mechanics, notably interactive platforms and the ability to slide on water. The update is free to all Jungle Run owners.

Also available today is a bit of new premium DLC. For $0.99 players can snag a playable Globox and two new skins for Rayman.

Two additional Far Cry 3 co-op chapters will be available for download on PS3 starting in January and you won't even have to break out the metal detector. Titled Jailbreak and Redemption, these free DLC chapters will be exclusive to Sony's platform and document events following the conclusion of the co-op campaign.

Over on the PlayStation Blog, Meghan Watt from multiplayer side developer Massive Entertainment describes these additional chapters as "the final moments" of the four co-op campaign survivors. So a lot of lounging around and sipping on cocktails inside of coconuts? That's how we'd spend our "final moments" on a tropical island.

#farcry Ubisoft's tropical action game Far Cry 3 comes out today. It's massive, it's open-world, and it's a hell of a lot of fun. And while it ain't exactly as deep as Skyrim (despite Ubisoft's hilarious marketing slogan: "Like Skyrim with guns!"), it is big enough to warrant some tips. More »

Far Cry 3 likes holding your hand, but not in the clingy, clammy way committed by worrywart games. A more pedantic guide would have dragged you through a clockwork jungle, crushing the chaos that lies beneath brilliant moments of discovery and sudden warfare. What you get on the pirate-infested island paradise of Far Cry 3, with great relief, is a tug in the right direction, and tacit approval when you decide to frolic and fling grenades at goats.

Goats, by the way, are not to be trusted. They seem like innocent targets in their grass-chewing congregations, but there's evidence of an assassination plot burgeoning between the billies. One led me across the road, just as an enemy patrol car came rattling around the bend. I pursued another through a frenzy of gunshots and screams, amidst mercenaries and a ... collective noun of Komodo dragons. And the most evil of all goats had his revenge in death, sliding down the hill while I bent down and followed, trying to liberate his skin for a carrying bag. That's when I fell off the cliff, chasing a slippery corpse.

#assassinscreed I love open-world games, and I'm always looking for ways to change up how they look and feel, to pull myself into the world more fully. I have a whole involved way of playing GTA IV that involves killing the HUD and pulling in the camera. I love how it draws me into Liberty City. It works partly because the HUD and Minimap aren't around to distract me, and partly because by bringing the camera in closer to Niko's shoulder, I feel more "in" the world, and regard it from something resembling his perspective. More »

From the art of the choke, to the art of the non-lethal kidney poke, this latest trailer for Splinter Cell: Blacklist shows how Sam Fisher takes 'em out without making much noise. Ignore the fact that Fisher has a silencer on his pistol, that'll just complicate this conversation. Ghosting seems quieter.

#assassinscreed The Assassin's Creed series has always been full of weird ambient dialogue. People on the street mutter the same few lines, and the mix never sounds quite right. Most of us have less-than-fond memories of the "Mah-ney mah-ney mah-ney!!" guy from earlier games in the series, and those accursed bums who bump and bug us as we try to look cool and flit about the streets. More »

If there's anything, just about anything that you still need to know about Far Cry 3, this incredibly long video should get you up to speed.

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Anthology for PS3 and Xbox 360 will launch in the UK tomorrow, bundling all the stabby series' games in one package. Ubi used fancy PR speak like "exclusive for now" to the EMEA territory to describe Anthology, so a stateside release isn't off the table. Anthology is priced at £119.99 in the UK (€150.00 on mainland Europe) and is exclusive to Amazon.

#rumor A report on website TGL claims to have screengrabs of a survey currently being conducted by Ubisoft, sounding out people's thoughts on the future of the Assassin's Creed franchise. More »

#farcry As a game, Far Cry 3 shines quite brightly. As a story, it's a little bit more of a mixed bag. It has some excellent moments, some fantastic characters, and some really funny writing. It's also dumb when it doesn't need to be, and misses some opportunities to tell a more interesting and subversive story. More »

Ubisoft gives a tour of everything Far Cry 3 has to offer.

Four stereotypes walk into a cooperative campaign...