Ubisoft has announced the Assassin's Creed Heritage Collection, a compilation of the five previous Assassin’s Creed games that'll be available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC on November 8th.

Priced at £39.99 / €50, the collection, which is currently only announced for release in Europe, will contain the following content:

• Assassin’s Creed: Draw your blades as Syrian Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad during the Third Crusade.
• Assassin’s Creed 2 (Game of the Year Edition): Lead your Brotherhood as Ezio Audtiore in the Italian Renaissance, also containing the Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities DLCs.
• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood: Set-up your Assassin Brotherhood in Rome to overthrow the Borgia Family.
• Assassin’s Creed Revelations: Follow in the footsteps of the legendary Altaïr in Constantinople to close the Renaissance Trilogy.
• Assassin’s Creed 3: Challenge the Templar’s supremacy as Connor throughout the American Revolution.

Ubisoft has announced the launch of "The Redemption", the third and last episode in the three-part Assassin’s Creed 3 – The Tyranny of King Washington downloadable content series, on the Xbox 360 and Windows PCs. This episode will be available for the PlayStation 3 starting tomorrow, April 24th.

Ratonhnhaké:ton’s journey concludes in the third and final episode The Redemption, taking gamers to New York to discover the power of the bear, allowing them to strike their foe with unimaginable strength. Our hero will call upon all of the abilities tied to his native heritage in order to break into the monarch fortress and put an end to the tyranny of King Washington.

The Redemption will be available for 640 Microsoft points on Xbox LIVE, $8/£6.50 on PC, and for $7.99/ £6.49 on the PlayStation Network. The first two episodes of The Tyranny of King Washington are available for purchase separately as a single DLC pack for 800 Microsoft points or $9.99/£7.99.

All Assassin’s Creed 3 downloadable content packs are now available on the Wii U through the Nintendo eShop. The Redemption will be available on May 16th.

The Betrayal, the second episode in the three-part Assassin’s Creed 3 – The Tyranny of King Washington downloadable content series, is now available for the Xbox 360 and Windows PCs. This episode will be available for the PlayStation 3 starting tomorrow, March 20th.

The Betrayal continues the next chapter in hero Ratonhnhaké:ton’s war against the mad King George Washington, taking gamers to Boston to find an unlikely ally. Ratonhnhaké:ton will discover a new ability- the power of the eagle, which empowers him to quickly fly across short distances and hone in on enemies for precise and brutal assassinations.

The final episode of The Tyranny of King Washington, The Redemption, will release on April 23rd for the Xbox 360 and PC, and April 24th on PlayStation 3.

All episodes of the Tyranny of King Washington are available through the Assassin’s Creed 3 Season Pass, which is available for purchase for 2400 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE or £23.99 on the PlayStation Network and PC. The Season Pass provides access to all Assassin’s Creed 3 downloadable content packs.  Each episode of The Tyranny of King Washington will be available for purchase separately as a single DLC pack for 800 Microsoft points or £7.99.

Here's a new Assassin's Creed 3 trailer demonstrating Ratonhnhaké:ton's 'Power of the Eagle' abilities. Ratonhnhaké:ton will gain the Power of the Eagle in the next installment of the three-part 'Tyranny Of King Washington' DLC.

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The Infamy, the first episode of the 'Tyranny of King Washington' DLC series for Assassin's Creed 3, is now available for download for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC for $9.99/800MSP.

The next installment in the Assassin's Creed series will be coming in Ubisoft's 2014 fiscal year, and will feature a new hero in a new time period, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced today during the company's third-quarter earnings call.

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If you've ever spent an unproductive half-hour banging on about how awesome Assassin's Creed would be, given the ability to invade another player's campaign world, you probably won't be all that chuffed to hear that such a feature once existed.

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The first episode of the Tyranny of King Washington DLC series for Assassins Creed 3, dubbed 'The Infamy', will be available on the Xbox 360 and Windows PCs on February 19th and the PlayStation 3 on February 20th, Ubisoft have announced. The DLC will launch on the Wii U at a later date.

In the first episode of the Tyranny of King Washington series, our hero, Ratonhnhaké:ton, awakens from an unsettling dream to find that, despite his efforts to deliver justice in the newly-founded United States of America, a new king has been crowned – George Washington. The Infamy will take gamers through the beginning of the journey to dethrone King Washington.

The three upcoming episodes of the Tyranny of King Washington are available through the Assassin’s Creed 3 Season Pass, which is available for purchase for 2400 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE or £23.99 on the PlayStation Network and Windows PC. The first episode, The Tyranny of King Washington: The Infamy, can be purchased as a single DLC pack for 800 Microsoft points or £7.99.

Following The Infamy, The Tyranny of King Washington will continue in two additional content packs that let gamers experience an alternate history of the events following the American Revolution.

The second downloadable content pack for Assassin’s Creed 3, The Battle Hardened Pack, is now available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace for 800MSP or for free for Season Pass holders. The DLC will be available tomorrow (January 9th) for the PlayStation 3 and January 15th on Windows PC.

The Battle Hardened pack extends Assassin's Creed 3's multiplayer mode with new playable characters and maps - three multiplayer characters; the influential Governor, the resilient Highlander and the fearsome Coyote Man and three multiplayer maps; Charlestown, Fort St-Mathieu and Saint Pierre.

Assassin’s Creed 3’s first downloadable content pack, The Hidden Secrets, is now available for Season Pass owners on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, Ubisoft have announced.

The Hidden Secrets downloadable pack will be available for everyone else on December 11th for the Xbox 360 and PC and on December 13th for the PlayStation 3. The DLC will also release for the Nintendo Wii U at a later date.

The Hidden Secrets adds three extra missions, including the Lost Mayan Ruins, the Ghost of War and a Dangerous Secret. Featuring an additional hour of gameplay, the DLC will take gamers from the lost Mayan ruins to the high seas. Every successful mission is rewarded with in-game weapons. Gamers will also receive:

• Two single-player costumes including the fabled Captain of the Aquila uniform and the traditional Colonial Assassin outfit.
• Two multiplayer characters including the fearsome Redcoat and the deadly Sharpshooter.

Future Assassin’s Creed 3 downloadable content will feature “The Tyranny of King Washington,” an all-new single-player campaign told through three episodic content packs that lets gamers experience an alternate history of the events following the American Revolution.

It’s 1783 and the American Revolution is over, but the true battle is just beginning. Blinded by a thirst for unlimited power, George Washington has declared himself King. Now, our new hero Ratohnhaké:ton must dethrone the tyrant and return freedom to the land.

In addition to this all-new single player experience, Assassin’s Creed 3 downloadable content will feature new maps and characters for the multiplayer mode in the upcoming “The Battle Hardened” pack.

Ubisoft has sent out a new survey in which it probes potential routes of development for the next Assassin’s Creed title. The survey asks a series of questions, questions that cover the release of Assassin’s Creed III, general satisfaction with gameplay/combat/sequences/story arch as well as probing for interest in potential features for a future Assassin’s Creed game.

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In a Reddit AMA thread posted yesterday, development team members of Assassin’s Creed 3 assured that the PC version of Connor’s American vacation will include a new patch ironing bugs present in the console version and sprinkling in DirectX 11 improvements.

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Ubisoft have today announced that the Assassin's Creed Anthology will be released exclusively at Amazon in Europe on November 30th for £119.99/€150.

The Assassin’s Creed Anthology is a prestige collector’s edition which includes all the Assassin's Creed games released to date for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, all the expansion packs and downloadable content for the games and a Season Pass for Assassin’s Creed III, which provides full access to all forthcoming downloadable content, the first of which will be available mid-December.

The Assassin’s Creed Anthology includes:

Assassin’s Creed.
Assassin's Creed II and the DLC:

• Sequence 12: Battle of Forlì.
• Sequence 13: Bonfire of the Vanities.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and the DLC:

• The Da Vinci Disappearance: 1 single player story mission.
• 2 additional solo missions: Trajan Market and the Aqueducts.
• New multiplayer features: 1 map + 6 characters + 2 new modes.

Assassin's Creed Revelations and the DLC:

• The lost archive: 1 single player story mission.
• New singleplayer features: 3 skins, capacity upgrades + 1. 
• Additional mission: Vlad the Impaler’s Prison.
• New multiplayer features: 6 maps + 7 characters + customisation Items.

Assassin's Creed III and the Season Pass, which provides instant access to all forthcoming Assassin’s Creed III downloadable game content packs, the first of which is available from mid-December 2012.

Ubisoft plans to release every console game in the Assassin's Creed series in one big box, a new retail listing suggests. The Assassin's Creed Anthology Edition includes Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed 2, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed: Revelations and the newly-released Assassin's Creed 3.

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When the Wii U version of Assassin's Creed III arrives in stores next month, there won't be much to distinguish it from its Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC counterparts. As the game's creative director Alex Hutchinson told GamesIndustry International at a launch party last week, that's a good thing.

Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the film and television division of Ubisoft, has today announced that it will develop the Assassin’s Creed film in close collaboration with New Regency. The development of a screenplay is beginning immediately and the project is being fast tracked as the creative pieces come together, while allowing Ubisoft to maintain control of key elements of the movie’s creative direction.

“Ubisoft chose to partner with New Regency because they are a talent- and filmmaker-driven company, with the same independent and creative mindset that we have at Ubisoft Motion Pictures,” said Jean-Julien Baronnet, chief executive officer, Ubisoft Motion Pictures. “Bringing aboard New Regency’s renowned production and distribution expertise while maintaining our own creative and financial flexibility ensures that Assassin’s Creed will be a high-quality film that respects the lore and fans of the video game franchise.”

The partnership with New Regency comes hot on the heels of Ubisoft Motion Pictures attaching distinguished actor Michael Fassbender to the Assassin’s Creed film.

“We wanted to do everything we could to secure the rights to Assassin's Creed, which Ubisoft has maintained with such care and quality over the years,” said Brad Weston, president and chief executive officer, New Regency. "Having just finished working with Michael on Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave (with Plan B) made the partnership even more irresistible."

Ubisoft Motion Pictures was created in January 2011 to expand the audience of Ubisoft’s successful video game brands by bringing them to film, television and Web series.

In addition to the Assassin’s Creed film, Ubisoft Motion Pictures also has two additional feature-length films in development based on the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon video game franchises.

Get a closer look at the unique locales, characters, abilities and perks in this Assassin's Creed 3 multiplayer trailer. Assassin's Creed 3's multiplayer modes range from the classic Deathmatch to co-op and team-based modes like Wolfpack and Domination.