GAMbIT Magazine Issue #27 June 2017 | Page 54

Assassin’s Creed: Origins A newly dropped leak for Assassin’s Creed: Origins has revealed a lot about the upcoming title. It looks like the games setting will be set in ancient Egypt, and the game will serve as a prequel to the series. The Reddit leak (before it was deleted) showed off a character with shiled and bow on a small wooden ship that would look right at home on the Nile. Ubisoft has always had trouble keeping their Crede games under wraps and it would make sense that they would show Origins off at E3 as the title is also rumored to drop during holiday 2017.  Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Nintendo is slowly losing its mind and Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle proves that. Rumors indicate that the game will have a robust 20-hour campaign mode that will feature two-player co-op. It's also being reported that the game will have a holiday 2017 release date. We think that this game is nothing more than Nintendo trying to court Ubisoft to publish more titles on the Switch after they pretty much pulled out from doing anything on the Wii U. Still, we are interested in seeing what they do with this "interesting" crossover. God of War Last summer we got to see the new God of War behind closed doors and were really impressed wit