Ubisoft is expanding the Assassin's Creed franchise beyond video games with a new animated short story called Assassin's Creed Ascendance. The short film bridges the narrative between Assassin's Creed II and the upcoming Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. Ubisoft is also releasing an Assassin's Creed comic book series and figures to further immerse fans in the Assassin's Creed world. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is scheduled for release in November 2010 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Ubisoft Expands Assassin's Creed Universe Beyond Video Games with New Animated Short Story
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Assassin’s Creed A
Ascendance is a short animated story deve
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bridges the narrat
tive gap between Assa
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Creed Broth
herhood.
Assassin’s Creed Ascendance follows Assassin Ez Auditore as he struggles to remove
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the trea
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behind Ceasare Borgia's rise to power to control Italy. Assa
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be available on PlayStation®Store, Xb
P box LIVE® for the Xbox 360®, and other digital
channels for a sug
ggested reta price of $1.99. This film is not rated by the ESRB.
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info on Assassin’s Creed Asce
endance ca be found here: www
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shop.com.
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