Ubisoft Montreal hits Twitter this morning with a teaser for a secret project that apparently isn’t related to Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. It sure looks like it’s related to assassin’s though. Judge for yourself:

For crying out loud, the file name is ‘Assassin’ — what do you think this game is about?

The image showed up on the newly-created UbiWorkshop Twitter account this morning after award-winning illustrator Cameron Stewart apparently Tweeted something he wasn’t supposed to late yesterday that outed fellow artist Karl Kerschl as a collaborator on some “secret project.”

Alright, Internets, time to do what you do best: speculate.

UPDATE: Ubisoft shot us a press release announcing a San Diego Comic Con panel unveil of a new Assassin’s Creed comic book mini-series. Being that Stewart and Kerschl are the panelists, we daresay mystery solved.

Source:
Ubisoft Teasing Another Assassin’s Creed Already [Destructoid]

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Speaking to MTV News, film director Guillermo del Toro said he plans to announce a deal with a video game studio “soon” to make games. There are a few clues as to what kind of game he’d like to make — but not many on with whom del Toro could make them.

Games blog MTV Multiplayer has the thought that the mystery “big company” could be Irrational Games — since that studio has plans to unveil their mystery game in August. MTV also points out, however, that del Toro wanted to do a Hobbit game once upon a time ad we doubt that Irrational managed to score that contract without J.R.R. Tolkien fans finding out about it.

So who could it be? Activision, EA, maybe even Sony? Hopefully we’ll find out sooner rather than later.

Here’s del Toro’s full quote in the MTV News interview:

“One of the things we’re announcing in the next few weeks is a big deal with a big company. We’re going to do games that are going to be technically and narratively very interesting. It’s not a development deal. We’re going to do it. We’re doing them. And we’re going to announce it soon enough.”

Source:
Guillermo del Toro Has Multiple Games In The Works With A ‘Big Company’ [MTV Multiplayer]

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IGN reports that Haden Blackman — executive producer and writer on The Force Unleashed 2 — has left LucasArts after 13 years at the company. Specifics aren’t clear, but LucasArts says development on FU2 won’t be affected.

Blackman’s statement to IGN reads:

“I’ve had a fantastic time working with the team at Lucasfilm and am really grateful for their ongoing support. While the decision to leave LucasArts did not happen overnight or come easily, I really feel that now is the best time for me to move on and explore new creative challenges and I look forward to the next phase of my career.”

We’ve contacted LucasArts for clarification on the situation and will update this story as necessary. Blackman’s work on the Star Wars franchise at LucasArts stretches well beyond The Force Unleashed games and it’s not clear if he will continue to contribute to that body of work.

Source:
Force Unleashed Producer Resigns [IGN]

UPDATE: LucasArts responded with the following statement — “After 13 years of service, Haden Blackman has resigned from LucasArts. From launching Behind the Magic to delivering Star Wars: The Force Unleashed I and II, Haden has been an invaluable member of the team during his tenure with the company. We are extremely grateful for his many contributions, fully support him in his new endeavors and wish him all the best in the future.”

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What’s The Sims creator Will Wright doing these days? Making “community developed television” about a mystical watering hole at the edge of the universe.

Wright’s new show is called Bar Karma and the only reason you can’t watch it yet is because you — the community — haven’t created it yet.

Bar Karma runs on a platform called Current TV out of its Creation Studios channel. The idea is that viewers influence and even change Bar Karma episodes by pitching their own storyline ideas and storyboards. The community then votes on the one they like best and the producers go out and shoot it. There’s a bit of a gray area between producer and community in that the producers probably have to adapt and edit the community ideas — but it’s still supposed to be a 30-minute television episode invented entirely by a community.

If the Spike TV Awards bestowed a “So Meta” award, Wright probably deserves it. Now if only he could adapt the idea to video games…

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