Assassin’s Creed III And Spider Recon: Last Objective To Get Vita Launch According To Store Listing

We are only a few months into the year, so there is plenty of time left for many game releases. Loads of big games will be making their way to consoles and some to handhelds like the PlayStation Vita, which will see Assassins Creed III and Ghost Recon: Final Mission grace it’s screen, according to a recent retail listing on Zavvi.com.

The website has listed the Ubisoft heavyweight Assassins Creed III available for £29.95 on the Vita and has the release date for the game on the handheld as October 31st, to be released alongside the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game. Since then the retailers have removed the listing from the website, but we already knew a Assassins Creed game was in the making for the Vita, we just didn’t know which one.

As for Ghost Recon: Final Mission, no date was given in the listing for its release, only that it will come out this year. No other details about plot or gameplay were given so we can only expect an E3 reveal for the game next week. The listing just like Assassins Creed, has now been taken down from the website, it also managed to get removed from Game.co.uk as well, not so secret anymore, unfortunately for Ubisoft.

E3 will hopefully give more details on the two titles, Ubisoft obviously don’t want anyone spoiling the hype. These titles could be the many additional titles Ubisoft talked about during their press release recently. Watch this space people!

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Panasonic to expose PS3, Vita e-book platform

If you like the idea of ebooks, but hate the fact that you can’t read them from 10 feet away on the living room sofa, Sony might have the solution to your problems. Okay, we’re exaggerating a bit. There’s a rumor that Sony is working on a digital books section to the PlayStation Store, but it is hardly going to try to be a competitor to the Kindle, iBooks, or Nook.

According to a report on MCV, the service will be called “Storyteller” and it is likely that it will also be available on the more portable Playstation Vita system. Downloadable books and other content will be available through the Playstation Store, potentially via a brand new dedicated channel in the same way that games and video are currently broken up into different sections within the digital download platform.

According to the report, there will be an emphasis on children’s content, meaning Sony sees this as perhaps an interactive storybook platform for your children. Unfortunately for Sony, it doesn’t exactly have a great track record in this space. Even though its Reader ebook device beat the Kindle to the market, it failed to captivate consumers. And specifically within the Playstation business, Sony launched a digital comic service for the PSP, allowing users to download comic books and read them in between gaming sessions. That service was subsequently shut down due to lack of interest.

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