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Assassin’s Creed II is one of the Most-Anticipated Games for 2009 here at Village Gamer

Montreal – Today Ubisoft announced that Ubisoft Montréal is developing Assassin’s Creed II on all current-generation platforms for a scheduled Holiday 2009 launch. The initial installment of Assassin’s Creed® was released in November 2007 to popular and critical success, selling 8 million copies worldwide, and garnering awards such as Best Action Game 2007 from 1UP and Outstanding Achievement in Animation from the AIAS.

Assassin’s Creed II is the product of over two years of intensive development by the original creative team behind the Assassin’s Creed brand. In a vast open world environment, the game invites players to incarnate Ezio, a privileged young noble in Renaissance Italy who’s been betrayed by the rival ruling families of Italy. Ezio’s subsequent quest for vengeance plunges players into a captivating and epic story that offers more variety in missions, surprising and engaging new gameplay elements, diverse weapons and a profound character progression that will appeal to fans of the original Assassin’s Creed as well as entice players new to the brand.

“Our creative team is working hard to top the experience of Assassin’s Creed,” said Patrice Desilets, creative director at Ubisoft. “We’ve made improvements to every aspect of the game. And we’ve plunged ourselves into the stunning history of the Italian Renaissance so that we can offer fans a unique, varied and innovative Assassin’s Creed experience.”

Victoria BC – Tecagora Solutions Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Snapact Photo Manager update v1.3.

“Since the initial release of Snapact Photo Manager in September 2008, the team at Tecagora has been working on implementing design workflow changes and integrating new features to the Snapact Photo Manager”, states Bruce Kwan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tecagora Solutions. “We want our users to enjoy the best experience possible with Snapact when viewing, organizing, and sharing their photos.”

The v1.3 update includes minor bug fixes and other usability features such as Batch Rename and Batch Resize that will allow for renaming and resizing of multiple photos at the same time. Other improvements include the addition of templates in the Print function. “We plan to continue improving the workflow design and add more features to the software from now until the end of this year,” states Kwan.

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