20 April, 2012

Original Assassins?

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John Beiswenger is to sue Ubisoft over an alleged copyright infringement regarding the Assassin's Creed franchise and his 2003 novel, Link.

Reported similarities include the use of a device to access and relive the memories of ancestors, strong religious themes, "references to assassins and assassinations", use of historical moments and a battle between good and evil... most of which sounds like ideas that have been floating around for, let's say, a while.

Beiswenger is asking for $1.05 million in damages, as well as a halt to the release of Assassin's Creed 3. Seeing  as the Assassin's Creed franchise is now five years old, its safe to assume that he's had lots of time to prepare his case.

As of yet Ubisoft have yet to comment, though doubtlessly this case is going to be watched closely by the millions of eager fans of the franchise.

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