Assassin's Creed: The Americas Collection will release for PC in Europe and Australia, but not in North America
Ubisoft last week announced the Assassin's Creed: The Americas Collection, a bundle including Assassin's Creed 3 , Assassin's Creed: Liberation and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (sick of the words 'Assassin's Creed' yet? I'm sorry). That's all well and good, but it appears PC owners in North America will not be able to buy the bundle. While a PC edition of The Americas Collection has been confirmed for Europe and Australia, the same won't be true for the US.
It's especially strange since the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 editions will be available in North America. Nonetheless, Ubisoft confirmed with Gamespot that there are no plans to release the PC edition in that region. No doubt there's some arcane corporate logic to this, and given how easy it is to get these games at a discount digitally I'm sure few people mind. Nevertheless, Ubisoft did admit in August that it needs to work harder to do right by PC gamers , and this seems to clash with those sentiments.
Assassin's Creed: The Americas Collection releases October 3 in Europe and Australia and October 28 in North America.
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