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Assassin’s Creed is officially an annual series

By Shane McNaboe

Posted on April 1, 2013

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It is now officially known that the Assassin’s Creed series will have annual game releases. Yannis Mallat, Ubisoft Montreal’s boss, is not afraid of the Assassin’s Creed fans becoming bored of the series. He believes that they will not be “turned off” by the series receiving annual releases. If they ever do become bored of the series, however, they will let him know. From Game Front:

Eurogamer asked Mallat whether he thinks players are bored by the series. “No,” he replied. “The players will tell us. Right now there are more and more coming into the franchise, so I don’t see that day.”

Assassin’s Creed 3 sold more than 12 million units total since it’s release, which is more than the previous Assassin’s Creed titles made on their own, so that argument is definitely on Mallat’s side. Only time will tell whether or not players will become jaded by the consistant and constant annual releases of the series, however. Yannis Mallet continued to tell Eurogamer:

“It’s our breakthrough. When you have quality content, the frequency of coming out with the game is not an issue at all. On the contrary, people expect more and more of that content,” Mallat added. “So it’s natural to be able to provide that content. The gamers are happy and it’s our job to make them happy.”

Source: Game Front

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I was five years old when I played my very first videogame: 'Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario World' (on the Super Nintendo.) Although, that was back in 1996, during the beginning of the Nintendo 64 timeline. Thus began my trend of always being one console behind. I owned a Nintendo 64 during the days of Xbox and PlayStation 2; and I owned a Game Boy Color during the prime of the Game Boy Advance. It was only until recently that I have started keeping up to date with the current console timeline. I bought an Xbox 360 during it's launch, and it is my gaming platform to this very day. Now hoping to someday own a PlayStation Vita, and a non-craptastic PC, I am also hoping to keep up with the gaming industry from this point forward. That is, until I become too old to care to keep up with technology. Or until I'm too old to remember my name, or something like that. You know, looking on the bright side of things.