As fans await Thursday's release of the latest edition, 'Assassin's Creed Mirage', AFP takes stock of the game's unique journey.
An employee shows a copy of the newly released video game 'Assassin's Creed Mirage' in their cybercafe in Baghdad on October 4, 2023. After years of turbulence that saw several top executives out the door, Ubisoft is betting aggressively on 'Assassin's Creed Mirage,' set in ninth-century Baghdad during the Abbasid caliphate era, to level up profits for the French publisher with a steadier line-up of new releases.
"And the man who was our liberator at one point during the revolution, Robespierre, is presented as a monster," he said. The deal was described by Ubisoft, which has separately received huge investments from Tencent, as "one of the largest" the industry has ever seen. A little-known 6-1 Iranian guard came out of nowhere to nearly beat Gilas singlehandedly in the quarterfinals of men’s basketball at the Hangzhou Asian Games the other day.