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The best Xbox 360 games showcase just how many memorable and fantastic titles found a home on Microsoft’s console. To say the Xbox 360 was a huge success is no exaggeration. After first launching in 2005, the console went on to see close 90 million units, with an extensive library …

Peer hard enough at the obscured walls and hidden alcoves of AC2, and with enough luck you’ll find the ‘glyphs’ scattered around AC2’s digital vision of Renaissance Italy, esoteric puzzles that slowly reveal the ‘true’ history of the world, one ridiculous conspiracy theory after another. As ludicrous as the whole …

It’s a big world out there If you can remember all the way back to Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, you might recall an email on an Abstergo bigwig’s computer that traces the geographical path of Desmond Miles’ family line. While some locations on the list were familiar, like Renaissance …

Some game sequels are content to polish and improve the established core concepts of their predecessors. Some, however, go the extra mile and straight up embarrass the games that came before them. Such was the case of Assassin’s Creed II, which took the erratic pacing and repetition of the original …