A new video was released today of the upcoming Assassin's Creed II by Ubisoft featuring a full guided walkthrough by the production manager.

The video shows the stores, where Ezio buys poison. The poison used on an enemy to assassinate a target. Ezio also accepts a secondary mission, unlike those in the first game.

Further through the video, Ezio hires...

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The worldwide leader in family entertainment is about to get a great deal more entertaining, as the Walt Disney Company agrees to acquire iconic comic book company Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion.

More than 5,000 iconic comic book characters will soon be in the hands of Disney, raising serious questions about the future of Marvel video game titles from Activision, Sega,...

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Flipnote Studio provides users with simple tools that let them draw and save a series of images to create an animation reminiscent of flipping through a notepad.

This makes it easy for anyone to jump in and create animations, regardless of their artistic abilities.

Press Release: Flipnote Studio for Nintendo DSi Gives Players the Tools to Become Animators
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Rumor has it that two Taiwanese manufacturing companies have been awarded contracts to build Sony's new streamlined PS3, affectionately known as the PS3 Slim.

To quote: According to UDN.com, half of the orders have gone to Taiwanese group Foxconn, while the other half has gone to Pegatron.

The units are expected to start shipping in early July "to cope with expected...

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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has threatened that the company may drop support for the PS3 console in 2010 and 2011 if things don't pick up for Sony's platform.

Apparently he wants a price cut now because the attach rate of games is very low.

To quote: “They have to cut the price, because if they don't, the attach rates [the number of games each console owner buys] are likely to slow. If we are being realistic, we might have to stop supporting Sony.”

Ask when and he says: “When we look at 2010 and 2011, we might want to consider if we support the console — and the PSP [portable] too.”

Sounds like Sir Howard Stringer, Sony's chief executive, is going to have to...

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Earlier this year Sony began quietly readying an army of evangelists to take to the front lines of the escalating console wars.

The Experience PlayStation Now program had a "beta test" of sorts earlier this month, with Sony employees well-versed in the ins and outs of the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3 setting up temporary shop in a select number of Best Buys across...

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Today the topic is the mythical creature called “The Golden Age of Video Games,” or more commonly known as, “The 90s.”

Lately many gamers across thousands of forums have been complaining about the reality show called WCG Ultimate Gamer.

They dislike the people on it. They hate the games being played. And they hate how gaming has become less of a social taboo. Of...

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Well here we go again; less than a week after a boy received a Nintendo DS box with rocks in it, a similar incident has happened to someone buying a MacBook Pro at Best Buy.

This time however, instead of finding rocks, the buyer received a nice red brick. As delighted as he was, I think he would have rather got his $2000 MacBook Pro.

So far no one has taken...

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It's official: "Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li" is a flop. Even given a perfunctory release on 1,136 theaters, its estimated weekend gross of $4.65 million and per screen average of $4,093 is lame, albeit not disastrous.

Box Office Mojo has a useful chart of video game-to-movie adaptations, on which "Chun-Li" comes in no. 23 of 28. Amongst the movies that beat it:...

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During a recent opinion piece, one of our writers recalled an anecdote of a disturbing experience that happened on Sony's PlayStation Home recently. The snippet in question reads as follows:

"While doing some research on ‘who actually buys HOME clothing’ we happened across a fellow in a cowboy hat (who we'll call 'Jed'). After telling Jed who we were and why we were...

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