Can You Keep Playing Assassin’s Creed Mirage After Beating The Game?

follows up on the story presented in the first game and, featuring a great and often shocking narrative. There's also plenty of side content — like finding Spider-bots, hunting collectibles, and fighting crimes — to keep the web-slingers busy as they glide across New York City and attempt to take down villains like Venom and Kraven the Hunter. With so much to do already, it might seem like the game ends once players actually beat .

Nintendo has never been above doing whatever it takes to promote one of their video games or offering fans a chance to win some cool prizes. In the case of Super Mario Bros Wonder, the company is going all out in London to help promote the game AND see if gamers can pay attention. You see, in London, a set of buses has a wrap of the game featuring Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, and Yoshi. If you’re able to find one of those buses and follow the instructions in the tweet below, you’ll be able to win a prize pack.

The Big Indie Pitch is a regular event run by the makers of Pocket Gamer and PC Games Insider. It sees indie developers engage in a speed-dating-styled pitching competition for fame and those sweet, sweet promotional packages.

Assassin's Creed is one of the biggest gaming IPs on the planet. It's come a long way since its first instalment back in 2007, with settings ranging from the crusades to swashbuckling pirates to an epic Viking saga.

represents a concerted effort by developer Ubisoft to return this once immensely popular franchise back to its beloved roots. In spite of abandoning the controversial RPG-style gameplay of the past several entries in the franchise, maintains an impressive array of customization options — most significantly in the character aesthetic department. Though the latest installment in the series has a limited supply of unique outfits and costumes when compared with previous installments, the developer has evidently elected to value quality over quantity as the vast majority of 's apparel options are exceptionally well-designed — though, inevitably, some are so much better than others.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage fans have spotted an adorable detail on one of the game’s feline friends, who appears to have the Assassin insignia on their nose. 

may take place in 9th century Baghdad, but there's an Easter egg that will likely remind longtime fans of Ezio Auditore, the famed assassin who lived roughly 800 years later during the Italian Renaissance. During Basim's story in, the Brotherhood of Assassins has yet to be established, still known as its precursor organization, the Hidden Ones. The Hidden Ones would become the Assassins in the following centuries, giving them a shared history, and through this has hinted at the origins of an iconic weapon best associated with Ezio.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage lives up to every aspect of its name.

Roshan plays a major role in , and there's a good reason why her distinctive voice is as recognizable as it is. As a Hidden One who trains the protagonist Basim in the arts of assassination and more, Roshan acts as a strong mentor figure in the game. She also serves as a powerful figure involved in undercurrents of resistance in Baghdad, standing up for the oppressed and unheard in a city where staggering splendor and cultural advancements could cover up or even exacerbate the plight of the less fortunate.

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise has come a long way in 16 years, as the video games evolved from stealth-based action adventures to the more RPG-based fare as seen in 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Evolution is a crucial part of any creative process, and change is necessary, but it’s still essential to stay true to what something is at its core, which is exactly what Assassin’s Creed Mirage does. This isn’t a soft reboot, though, as it slides right into canon, centring on Basim Ibn Ishaq, a character introduced in Valhalla.

Assassin's Creed Mirage, which released yesterday, has taken the series back to its roots in a few ways. Not only has the gameplay returned to a more simplistic stealthy style, but Mirage is set in the Middle-East.

October is here and the month brings a non-stop train of game releases. It is perhaps the busiest month in gaming this year, with major titles fighting for space in the tight window of four weeks. Kicking off things on October 5 is Assassin's Creed Mirage, Ubisoft's next chapter in the long-running assassin's saga. This time, the game opts to shrink its scope and return to its roots with a more stealth and assassinations-based approach. The last three AC titles had adhered to a Witcher 3-style expansive RPG style, drawing criticism for open-world bloat.