GPU prices could follow RAM's big rise PS Plus Game Catalog additions for December include Assassin's Creed Mirage Skate Story is also available to play. Sony just announced December's Game Catalog additions for PS Plus subscribers and it's a pretty decent lineup. All of these titles will be ready to play on December 16, except which is already available . Speaking of, it's a really weird skateboarding sim that's set in a glass-covered world. The reviews have been positive, with many people praising the outlandish story, surreal locations and the satisfying trick mechanics.

The newest Assassin's Creed game will soon arrive on iPhone and iPad. Assassin's Creed Mirage, the 2023 installment that takes you to ninth-century Baghdad, will be available on June 6 for the iPhone 15 Pro series and iPads with an M-series chip. Ubisoft says the mobile version of the AAA title offers "the same experience as the console version" but with adapted touchscreen controls. IGN reports that Ubisoft confirmed the mobile game will support MFi hardware controllers like the Backbone One and Razer Kishi Ultra. Ubisoft says Assassin's Creed Mirage supports cross-progression and cross-save through Ubisoft Connect, so you can pick up where you left off no matter your platform.

Assassin's Creed Mirage takes us around 9th-century Baghdad, where you'll find everyday people lying on rugs in verdure courtyards while scholars observe stars from rooftops. This is the third time we return to West Asia under Islamic rule in the Assassin's Creed series, but here, we experience a turning point in Basim Ibn Ishaq's life, years before he heads down a sinister path in Assassin's Creed Valhalla. As a Muslim born in the subcontinent, I had to learn about the Arabic language and West Asian region as if it were my history while not being my cultural identity. I went deeper than what religious classes teach to learn about Islamic empires, revolutions, and of course, the "Islamic Golden Age," which spans from the 7th to the 13th century. The term acknowledges the exchange of ideas, new discoveries, and preservation of information under an Islamic empire that caught the attention of the world, yet it's reductive in the way it confines scientific and artistic achievements made by Muslim scholars to a singular time and place.

Mohammed Al Imam, who works for Ubisoft's Middle Eastern and North African branch, explains that the language spoken in the game is classical Arabic, a "1,000-plus years old" version "still preserved to this day in schools, academia and news and entertainment".

Whether you dream of holstering a flintlock pistol and sailing through the 18th-century Golden Age of Piracy or leading a clan of Vikings to settle in the fractured Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of the 9th century, Assassin's Creed video games have you covered. Since 2007, the popular action-adventure series created by video game publisher Ubisoft has been taking gamers on adventures around the globe through different historical periods. With its 13th instalment released on Thursday, Assassin's Creed Mirage attempts to immerse players in Iraq's 9th-century Baghdad during the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate, when it was one of the most significant cities in the world. Today's capital of Iraq is often associated, especially by those in the West, with the United States war and the destruction it brought more than two decades ago. But in Assassin's Creed Mirage, the game attempts to give players a glimpse into the rich and diverse history of the Abbasid Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.

Most canals that cut through ninth-century Baghdad are a muddy brown, thick with the silt churned up by the poles of passing punts. But there's one inlet in the city where the water is stained red, a persistent crimson cloud that doesn't shift with the stream's eddies. Follow the red-running gutters through the sidestreets shouldered by clay-brick houses, and you'll find not an abattoir but a dye factory. Between lines of fabrics hung up to dry, workers sweat as they stir cloth in great pots of coloured water, occasionally stopping to mop their brows. After a palace burglary goes wrong, you are forced to flee your village and join the Hidden Ones, taking up their fight against the Order, a secretive club who are worming their way into Baghdad's upper echelons of power.

Assassin's Creed Mirage is a dream for stealth kings. People who loved Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell or simply the old Assassin's Creeds will have a tremendous fun in beautiful 9th century Baghdad, our recent hands-on with the game revealed. We throw coins, briefly distract a guard, dart around corners. In that game, we are a bear of a man, with arms like tree trunks as we swing the axe and make the English army tremble. Valhalla also had its moments, but in Mirage there is much more of a hand-built feel.

Assassin's Creed Mirage looks to be a return to the series' roots--and fans are excited. But some have been far less stoked about a rumor from earlier this week: That the game would only support Intel's XeSS upscaling technology on PC. But those assumptions were wrong. On Tuesday, forums lit up with the idea that Mirage would be an Intel XeSS exclusive, cutting out AMD Radeon and Nvidia GeForce card owners from access to their respective upscaling tech, stoked by alarmist articles claiming just that. But in a same-day update to its blog post about Mirage's recommended specs and upcoming features for PC, Ubisoft now lists Intel XeSS, Nvidia Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), and AMD Fidelity Super Resolution (FSR) as supported.

The iPhone 15 Pro is getting a performance boost thanks to a new chipset. One thing we didn't expect from today's Apple event, however, was a detailed list of the games that the A17 Pro will be able to support. Apple said during its iPhone event that Resident Evil Village, this year's Resident Evil 4 remake, Death Stranding and the upcoming Assassin's Creed Mirage are all coming to its mobile devices soon. As Apple notes, this will be the first time that a console-level Assassin's Creed game will be available natively on iPhone. Expect to see Mirage on iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max in the first half of next year.

Ubisoft is shaking up a busy calendar of big fall game releases by bringing forward one of several games it has on the docket. Assassin's Creed Mirage will now arrive on October 5th, one week earlier than previously expected. The move gives the game a bit more distance from another major open-world action-adventure game in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (which is set to hit PS5 on October 20th). However, Assassin's Creed Mirage will now be going up against Detective Pikachu Returns, which will debut on Switch on October 6th. Assassin's Creed Mirage has gone gold and is coming out a week early!