Today on
Headline RePLAY: Ubisoft confirms Assassin’s
Creed 3 speculation, a patent troll is targeting big companies
and a new development studio is founded by the creators of Fable.
Confirmation,
ahoy! Ubisoft has just confirmed the image we saw yesterday of Assassin’s Creed 3 on their Facebook
page by posting the cover art for the game depicting the same white-cloaked,
tomahawk-wielding assassin in the backdrop of the Revolutionary and British
armies duking it out.
If
confirmation from the source wasn’t enough, Game Informer also revealed the art
for their April cover story— the same image from yesterday crafted by comic
artist Alex Ross.
It looks
like the next locale in the war between the Templars and the Assassins is the
18th century: the American Revolution!
*Source:
Ubisoft
A patent
troll may be on the loose under the guise of “GameTek LLC.” The company is suing
companies like Facebook, Zynga and EA over US Patent #7076445: “System and
methods for obtaining advantages and transacting the same in a computer gaming
environment.” Basically, GameTek claims it patented the use of virtual currency
to buy items in a game, which includes almost every modern title in existence.
Industry Gamers
tracked the patent back to when it was filed in 2000, which was then granted to
Shawn Cartwright in 2006, then assigned to Theados Corporation in 2011, and ultimately
passed to GameTek. GameTek previously went bankrupt in 1997 and closed a year
after, but is currently not engaged in any business other than pursuing the
lawsuit.
GameTek is
seeking a judgment on the aforementioned companies for infringing on the patent
and to prevent them from doing so again in the future in addition to “reasonable”
attorney’s fees and whatever else GameTek may be entitled to.
*Source:
Industry Gamers
Fable’s
art director, technical director and executive producer all left Lionhead
Studios to join the franchise’s creators in forming a new UK-based development
studio called “Another Place Productions.”
Simon Carter, one of
the two brothers that created Fable,
left Lionhead last June in hopes to join his brother, Dene Carter, working on
games for digital platforms like XBLA, PSN, Steam and mobile devices. Other
members of the Fable team that joined
the Carter brothers include art director John McCormack, technical director
Guillaume Portes and executive producer Jeremie Texier.
Another
Place Productions’ mission is to create “high-quality, meaningful experiences
that will inspire audiences worldwide.”
It is
unknown how their departure will affect the development of the Kinect-centric Fable: The Journey, or any other
projects.
*Source:
Gamasutra
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