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There’s no denying gamers have been looking forward to the release of Ubisoft’s next chapter in the Assassin’s Creed saga with Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag for quite some time, and the game released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii U just this past week. PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC owners will have to wait just a bit longer for Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag to hit their gaming platform of choice. Thankfully, all versions of Assassin’s Creed 4 will no longer require Ubisoft’s online pass system, called Uplay Passport, which would allow any and all players to gain full access to the game.

In the past, online pass systems withheld certain parts of a game in order to make sure those who payed for a used copy of the game would pay extra in order to access those portions. Ubisoft used its Uplay Passport system to restrict access to parts of Assassin’s Creed 4′s single-player campaign, which caused quite a stir in the gaming community. Thankfully, with this week’s move to remove its Uplay Passport system from Assassin’s Creed 4, players can now journey through the world, as well as it’s multiplayer mode, without needing to enter an online pass code.

Hopefully this move will cause other publishers to do the same thing for their respective titles as a world without online pass systems is a world we’re sure all gamers would want to live in.

Ubisoft Removes Online System Pass From Assassin’s Creed 4, Future Games original content from Ubergizmo.

Good news for all of your Assassin’s Creed fans! If you are patient enough to wait until January 14th, 2014, without doing anything silly that might just cut short your life or injure your fingers and thumbs, then you will be able to enjoy Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD on the PS3 on that date, via the PlayStation Store, of course.

The whole idea of Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD was pretty simple – the development team simply wanted to improve upon what they set out to do on the Vita, adapting both gameplay and missions to be the most fun and enjoyable they could be. This means every individual mission has been reworked so that its pacing is improved, in addition to offering more challenge to the player.

The background story of Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD has been set in New Orleans between 1765 and 1780, which happens to be the period between the end of the French and Indian War, right up to the middle of the American Revolution. Aveline, a female Assassin of mixed French and African heritage, would be the protagonist here, as she was brought up in a world of privilege and contrasts, resulting in her being a strong-willed woman and an avid opponent of slavery.

Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD Arriving To PlayStation Store This January 14th original content from Ubergizmo.

Are you a huge fan of the Assassin’s Creed franchise? If you have answered in the affirmative, then you would definitely have given Assassin’s Creed 4 a go already, and this time around, we have a spanking new single player DLC that has been unveiled where it will star shipmate Adewale. The time setting? A good 15 years of clock fast forwarding is required. This is the first single player DLC for Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag from Ubisoft, where it is tipped to launch before March 2014 rolls around. In Freedom Cry, one will be able to enjoy nine missions of “self-contained” single-player story.

Ubisoft mentioned, “Born a slave, Adewale found freedom as a pirate aboard the Jackdaw as Captain Edward Kenway’s second-in-command. Fifteen years later, Adewale has become a trained assassin and finds himself shipwrecked in Saint-Domingue with no weapon nor crew, starting a new adventure of his own.”

This particular content will be made available as part of a Season Pass, where one will be able to enjoy a 20% discount after purchasing each piece of AC4′s upcoming DLC on an individual basis. Apart from that, the Season Pass will also include additional single-player missions, weapons, skins and collectibles, not to mention new multiplayer characters.

Assassin’s Creed 4 ‘Freedom Cry’ Single Player DLC Spotted original content from Ubergizmo.

Yesterday we reported that thanks to a leak and a broken embargo, Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation HD was revealed, although now the official details have since been announced. The game is expected to make its way onto the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3, and the PC come early 2014. The game was originally designed exclusively for the PlayStation Vita and was unveiled during Sony’s press event at E3 2012, but for those looking to take their adventure on a bigger screen and different platform, Liberation HD will be the game you want.

The game will feature 15 new missions and has had its graphics redone to make it more in line with Assassin’s Creed 3. Some puzzles have been removed as they were originally designed for the touchscreen, and gamers can look forward to a remastered soundtrack as well. No specific release dates or pricing of the game were mentioned, but hopefully more details about its upcoming release will be revealed at a later date, but for now if you’re wondering what you will be able to look forward to, spare a couple of minutes and check out the trailer in the video above.

Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation HD Announced With Trailer original content from Ubergizmo.

All good things must come to an end, unless you are George Lucas and his Star Wars franchise (which happens to have been bought up by Disney that caused quite a shocker when it happened), who figured out that each generation will need a new bunch of Star Wars toys to play with, never mind if the characters in there are a poor excuse of an alien lifeform such as the ever irritating Jar-Jar Binks. How about the Assassin’s Creed gaming franchise? While there has yet been immediate plans to end the franchise, Ubisoft already knows just how the Assassin’s Creed story will end should the day arrive. Of course, I am quite sure that there is enough room to make changes between now and that fateful day, since nothing is ever really set in stone.

Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag game director Ashraf Ismail touted that there has been a rough outline of the ending narrative which has been written. He said, “The brand team that sits on top and is filled with writers and designers concerned with the series’ overall arc. So there is an overall arc, and each iteration has its place inside this. We have an idea of where the end is, what the end is.” Great, now if only the world would be able to dive into a similar idea, no? At least we do know that there will be three more titles in the franchise to come.

Assassin’s Creed Franchise Ending Written Already original content from Ubergizmo.