Soon after the game’s release, last week, Ubisoft announced the DLC plans for Assassin’s Creed II. Ubisoft plans to release two DLC packs in early 2010 for the game on both PS3 and XBox 360. The first pack, “Battle of Forli,” is slated to release in January, while the second pack, “Bonfire of the Vanities,” is due out in February.

“Battle of Forli” will deal with the town of Forli being seized by the villain of the game, Cesare Borgia. The “Bonfire of the Vanities” deals with an actual historical event where members of the church congregated and burned vanity items such as mirrors in a large fire. Both titles are pretty self revealing, but that’s the gist of the plots.

There has been no mention of price yet, but each DLC pack does require at least 1GB of memory. Start clearing your memory now!

[Source: IGN]

If you find that you need an extra $10,000, are handy with a video camera, and are eagerly anticipating Assassin’s Creed II (or even if you’re not to be honest), then it just might be in your best interest to swing on over to Media Lab Studios’ contest page at IFC.com and upload your butchery. Technically it says not to kill someone, but honestly, how are they going to know the difference? I might caution against having such a solid piece of evidence thrown against you at your murder trial, but video proof is so sketchy these days, isn’t it?

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Cue the cliché jaw drops, because what has been shown of the Italian Renaissance-themed Assassin’s Creed II does just that. I walked into the ACII panel on Thursday of San Diego Comic-Con with a sense of uncertainty and lukewarm feelings about what I was about to attend, but the immediate showing of the trailer nearly blew me away from the beginning.

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