Assassin's Creed Anthology Confirmed

Update: Ubisoft has now confirmed the existence of the bundle to IGN but has yet to comment on platform, pricing and release date.

Every console game in the Assassin's Creed series will be released in one box, according to a new listing on Amazon France.

The Assassin's Creed Anthology Edition is slated to include Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed: Revelations and the just-released Assassin's Creed III.

The listing also states that all singleplayer and multiplayer bonus DLC created for the games will be included, whether it be extra maps or bonus missions. Judging from the promotional image leaked below, it seems that the Assassin's Creed III Season Pass will also be part of the package.

According to the image, the pack will include "all Assassin's Creed games ever released on Xbox 360". Does this mean the bundle will only be available on Microsoft's platform?

IGN reached out to Ubisoft for a statement, but was told the company wasn't ready to comment on the leak. Given how Amazon France has previously proved reliable in outing both Call of Duty: Black Ops II and also the Killzone Trilogy bundle, it's a safe bet that this package is also legit.

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Mass Effect Trilogy DLC to Vary by Platform

Bioware has confirmed that its Mass Effect Trilogy bundle will include some DLC, but how much will depend on which platform you buy it on.

According to Eurogamer, PC gamers will be getting the best deal in terms of included DLC, while it still isn't clear exactly what PS3 players will receive.

PC copies of Mass Effect Trilogy will apparently come with Mass Effect's Bring Down the Sky and Pinnacle Station add-ons included free of charge, alongside Mass Effect 2's Cerberus Network DLC which unlocks the squadmate Zaeed as well as extra missions and weapons. The PC version will also get Mass Effect 3's online pass.

The Xbox 360 version meanwhile won't come with any of the original Mass Effect DLC, but will get both Mass Effect 2's Cerberus Network content and also the final game's online pass.

In terms of what PS3 players should expect, Bioware has apparently refused to divulge exactly what will be included on-disc but promised that more info would be coming "soon".

In addition, the game's release date has also been tweaked; it's now being released in America on November 6 for Xbox 360 and PC, while the date for the PS3 version is still "TBA". No release information for territories outside of America has been announced.

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Humble Indie Bundle 6 Adds 4 New Games

Humble Indie Bundle 6 has added four additional games to its line-up. Available now, Bit.Trip Runner, Wizorb, Jamestown and Gratuitous Space Battles can be unlocked by paying at least the average amount for the bundle, which is currently at $5.89.

Humble Indie Bundle 6 launched last week and also offers Rochard, Torchlight, Shatter, S.P.A.Z. (Space Pirates and Zombies), Vessel and Dustforce. As with all Humble Indie Bundles, customers can pay whatever they want for the games, dividing their purchase to go to charity, foundations, game developers or even to Humble Indie Bundle itself. All 10 games are DRM-free and will run on Windows, Mac or Linux, and would be worth more than $135 if purchased separately.

Charities included in the bundle are and Child’s Play, which donates games to children in hospitals worldwide, and non-profit organization The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which advocates for digital privacy rights. So far, more than 231,670 bundles have been sold, and sales will continue for another week.

To make your purchase, head over to Humble Indie Bundle’s official site.

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Battlefield 4, God of War, Dishonored and More

Every week, IGN collects the best quotes from the last seven days and packages them all up in a weekend-friendly bundle. The list of things up for discussion today includes:

Battlefield 4
DayZ
Dear Esther
Diablo III
Dishonored
Fable: The Journey
Fez
Gabe Newell
Gamer Pledge
God of War: Ascension
Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Mega Man
Ouya
The Secret of Monkey Island.

You can see all of the past 15 weeks worth of quotes by Googling IGN Games Quotes.

Battlefield 4

"There will be other ways to get into the beta aside from MoH Warfighter. At this time, however, it is the only way to guarantee entry."

Battlefield 3 community manager Ian Tornay calms the community, some.

Reddit.

DayZ

“While we began developing our game before DayZ, we've been encouraged by fact that DayZ has become so popular. And yes, of course some of our latest design decisions were influenced by the DayZ community forums.”

Sergey Titov, executive producer of The War Z says there is some cross-over with runaway hit DayZ (pictured).

IGN

Dear Esther

“Dear Esther has now sold over 250,000 copies since launch. We always said we'd celebrate if we shifted 20,000.”

Life in the fast lane for developer Dan Pinchbeck.

Twitter via VG247

Diablo III

“Diablo III was designed from the beginning to be an online game that can be enjoyed with friends, and the always-online requirement is the best way for us to support that design...While we…’ve never said that this requirement guarantees that there will be no cheating or game cracks, it does help us battle those problems.”

Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime, explaining things.

Battle.net

Dishonored

"It's been a poor, poor five years for fiction in the video game industry. There have been too many sequels, and too many established intellectual properties that have been ruling the market."

Dishonored creator Victor Antonov.

Eurogamer

Fable: The Journey

"I think the presentation itself is partly to blame. It looked a bit like some spammy shooter, but actually we were building this big world around it. Y'know, you have about two minutes and 45 seconds to demonstrate what you're doing. I know that a main problem people have is they think we've taken the Fable series and trivialised it."

Lionhead creative director Gary Carr on Fable: The Journey’s difficult introduction at E3 2011.

CVG

Fez

"It’s a s**tty numbers game to be playing for sure but as a small independent, paying so much money for patches makes NO SENSE AT ALL. Had Fez been released on Steam instead of XBLA, the game would have been fixed two weeks after release, at no cost to us. And if there was an issue with that patch, we could have fixed that right away too!"

Polytron’s Phil Fish on Microsoft’s standard  $10K charge to update his Xbox Live game.

IGN

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