In a few days, Assassin's Creed Unity will be out in the open and we thought it would be the perfect timing to look back on the seven years that have gone by since the release of the first episode. Six games that we decided to capture one last time on PC to make these two retrospective videos. If you have ever wondered how far the series has come graphically, now is your chance.

Here at Gamersyde, saying we don't like April fool's jokes would be a dramatic understatement. Nevertheless, it would be even more foolish to skip this very nice (and weird) video of an imaginary cross-over between Metal Gear Solid 4 and Assassin's Creed, produced by Ubisoft and Konami themselves - especially knowing that besides the Altaïr joke, the video features real never seen before gameplay from Hideo Kojima's next game.

Ubisoft releases the first screenshots of Assassin's Creed on Nintendo DS. For real. I'm not kidding. It doesn't look ugly at all actually, and after the XBLA Prince of Persia remake, I'm willing to give the developer Gameloft a chance.

Last minute change! The embargo for Assassin's Creed has been lifted here in Europe too. By chance I had already 2 videos uploaded, so here they are. At Ubisoft's request I'm not showing the real beginning of the game. If you know what happens, please don't spoil the surprise for the others! More videos, including from the PS3 version, and our impressions will follow later today and tomorrow.
Update: Third part available.
Update 2: Added a very short but still interesting video comparison of the 360 and PS3 versions. Thanks to TTP for the PS3 part :)
Update 3: Fourth and likely last video of the 360 version is up. Let me know if you want to see a video of what happens in the city.
Update 6: The PS3 video is back, this time with the right framerate. Again sorry about that.
Update 7: Since some people have claimed that the retail PS3 version ran far better than the review one, I went and bought it to make sure I didn't unfairly compare both versions. So I've done another comparison video, and you'll notice that the end result is still the same. I'm eagerly awaiting some people arguing that my PS3 is either broken, my capture hardware is buggy, or I've simply cheated the video so the 360 version looked better.

Just a day (or a few days) to the release of Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft releases what will be the last trailer for this game, as always looking good. Our own videos will be online tomorrow at 09 CET.

Just a few days before the worldwide release of the game, Ubisoft released these 6 images of Assassin's Creed. Such a beautiful game...

Ubisoft released this not so new trailer of Assassin's Creed, as amazing looking as ever. Our videos of the game will be available on November 14.

One week exactly before the official launch of Assassin's Creed on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, Ubisoft gives us what may be the last batch of images for the hero Altaïr. PC users will have to play the patience card until the beginning of 2008 to taste the adventures created by the Prince of Persia team.

A new Developer's Diary of the stealth videogame Assassin's Creed has been given to us by Ubisoft. Patrice Désilets talks about the importance of the fight system in the game, a key element that main character Altaïr will have to master in order to escape hasardous situations. Only recently has the game achieved gold status and will infiltrate the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 systems November 16 2007. The PC build will be available later in 2008.

Ubisoft did this long video of the William de Montferrat mission in Acre, from Assassin's Creed. Unfortunately, it's really low-res - but, it's actually commented Jade Raymond, so it's absolutely worth checking out. If you want to see the same mission in high-def, you should watch our gameplay videos above.