No, your eyes don't deceive you -- Ubisoft is upgrading an older Assassin's Creed game for modern consoles. The developer has revealed that a 60 frames per second update for 2017's Assassin's Creed Origins is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on June 2nd. The boost doesn't appear to include 4K support or other visual embellishments, but this could still breathe new life into the game if you haven't touched it in a while. It's not clear what prompted a 60FPS boost for a game released three years before PS5 and Xbox Series consoles existed. Ubisoft did release a similar upgrade for Assassin's Creed Odyssey in 2021, but that was a year earlier and for a more recent title. Origins was one of the better-received recent games in the franchise, though, and Ubi has a strong incentive to rejuvenate interest in the series ahead of Infinity.

Starting today through to May 21st, the standalone versions of Ubisoft's Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece and Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt are free to download on PC as part of the company's Play Your Part, Play at Home campaign to help teachers and students during the coronavirus pandemic. They allow you to explore Assassin's Creed Origins and Odyssey's game worlds without worrying about combat or mission objectives. Along the way, they'll teach you about the historical periods they take place in. In the example of the Ancient Egypt experience, you'll learn more about what life was like in along the Nile delta during the waning years of the Ptolemaic dynasty. The company worked with professional historians to create the experiences and incorporated a variety of primary sources like archival photos into each tour.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, a dark mythological adventure that follows a young warrior suffering from psychosis, was the big winner at the 2018 Bafta video game awards on Thursday night at Tobacco Dock, London. The game, which was developed in conjunction with psychologists and neuroscientists to ensure its accurate depiction of mental illness, was nominated in nine categories and won for best British game, best performance, artistic achievement, audio achievement and a new category, games beyond entertainment, which celebrates new releases with a political or social message. Accepting the latter prize, psychologist Paul Fletcher, a professor of neuroscience at Cambridge University who worked closely with the game's Cambridge-based developer, Ninja Theory, said: "Mental illness is usually characterised by the fact that it's invisible. Working with Ninja Theory has shown me something valuable: games can aspire to and achieve a remarkable exploration of state of the mind and mental suffering." However, the night's biggest award, best game, also provided its biggest shock.

Even if you're not particularly interested in video games, you'll probably have heard of Assassin's Creed. They're a series of historically themed action games that take place in digital recreations of places such as Revolution-era Paris, medieval Jerusalem and 1860s London. Playing Assassin's Creed involves climbing up ancient buildings and mingling with the residents of cities of the past, meeting (and occasionally assassinating) historical figures as a member of an ancient, clandestine brotherhood working against the Templars. The games have been around since 2007 and have made an awful lot of money for their publisher, Ubisoft. The company employs a team of hundreds of artists, historians, writers, coders, sound designers and more to create these virtual places.

The Assassin's Creed series is known for its vast and richly detailed historical environments, and well... lots of murder. What you might not realize is just how much work goes into making these virtual windows into the past somewhat realistic. That's something Ubisoft is aiming to highlight with Assassin's Creed Origins' Discovery Tour. You can think of it as a museum-like experience set within the game's meticulous rendition of ancient Egypt. To turn one of the most popular gaming franchises in the world into a truly useful educational tool.

The first expansion of "Assassin's Creed Origins" called'The Hidden Ones' is arriving this month. The DLC will come with a new quest and a couple of changes. Moreover, Ubisoft has announced that two deities are appearing at the Trials of the Gods this January. Eurogamer has learned that Ubisoft has scheduled the first of the two expansions headed to "Assassin's Creed Origins" for release this month. The video game publisher hasn't announced a specific date thus far, but the news outlet believes that it is coming sooner than latter because Trophies for the expansion have already been spotted by some fans. 'The Hidden Ones' picks up where Bayek's story ended in the finale of the main game.

A new patch for "Assassin's Creed Origins" is rolling out this Tuesday, and it's a big one. The update comes with numerous fixes and changes that improve the gaming experience of the action-adventure video game. Though Ubisoft did not indicate the file size of the new patch for the PC version of the game, fans should already expect it to be big considering the numerous improvements it adds to the game. The highlights of the update as indicated in the patch notes are the new Nightmare difficulty mode, the new horde mode that's been added to the Arena and the Enemy Auto-Level NPC scaling option, which basically allows weak enemies to match the level of players so the game stays challenging. According to VG 24/7, the Nightmare difficulty mode makes all the enemies in the game more resilient to damages.

French video game publisher Ubisoft has a six month reprieve from worrying about a hostile takeover right now, but the company still has other problems to worry about. Namely, at least two of its biggest upcoming games have been delayed in one fell swoop. Reported by Eurogamer, Ubisoft delayed "Far Cry 5" and "The Crew 2," which were both originally slated to release in spring 2018. "Far Cry 5" was supposed to launch on Feb. 27, but was delayed exactly a month, to March 27. "The Crew 2," meanwhile went from March 16 to the first half of Ubisoft's 2018-19 fiscal year, which starts in April.

"Assassin's Creed: Origins" on PC received a new update on Wednesday. And while fans at first were joyful at the thought of a new patch, they soon found out that the update actually has a big problem. Apparently, the update is causing the game on quad-core CPUs to stutter. The stuttering issue is so bad that some players thought Ubisoft downgraded the game's performance on PC with the new update. One player with the handle stormesp took to Reddit to claim that the update caused Draw Distance and LOD (level of detail) to drop to the ground in all settings.

If you've been looking for a time to expand your video game library, Black Friday is bound to be a boon for your favorite hobby. The days after Thanksgiving are prime time for price drops, especially for fans of Microsoft's console, the Xbox One. Whether you're looking to pick up one of the newest variations of the current generation gaming console or you already have the system set up and you're after some new games to play as winter comes around, these are the best deals you'll find for the Xbox One. First unveiled last year, the Xbox One S is a great entry point for those who haven't yet entered the current console generation. The slimmed down version of the Xbox One--it's 40 percent smaller than the original--includes support for 4K resolution and high dynamic range (HDR) color.