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Here I was, in my home, taking a wonderful 4 hour nap after a fantastic A+ college presentation about Ancient Rome, when I was awaken by [[User:Elchzard|Harry Potter's]] owl--I mean, tweet--asking me to come to IRC.  Apparently we got a motherlode of new info regarding the AC series and the encyclopedia, and this lovely post I hoped to post later today is posted now =P My sleep is broken for the good of the wiki -- being staff ain't easy kids. Make sure to drop by the page and thannks of each of our staff members later who stay up all night helping make this place awesome XD
A new era shines on the wiki.


Today we have A LOT of info for ya, both AC-related and wiki-related.  
The rise of this new dawn shines its lights on our wiki projects, bringing awesomeness all over it.


==Assassin's Giveaway==
==Project: Aperture==
First, I like to present to you the conclusion of [[User_blog:D. Cello/It's Wednesday, Wednesday, gettin down on wednesday...|Project APERTURE]]. After months of hard work that sweep through resources and dedications of all levels of wiki hierarchy, the main page portal has finally been completed. In honor of this awesome job, I'll give a brief history of it's inception and list all the contributors that made it happen.


<center>http://images.wikia.com/gamingstarter/images//2/29/WikiaGaming.png</center>
''2 months ago, we implemented a new main slider. It was just a addition of buttons, but a idea placed itself on my mind -- something was not right, we could do better. As a hand of destiny reached over ACWiki, I was contacted a day later by [[User:Animusradiation]] with a prototype of portal unlike anything I've ever seen before. Awed by it, I began working with him in secret. A couples of week later, we began disclosing it to select people on a need to know basis, and a month later, a official wiki announcement was made. The project was met with unnanymous awe, the reception dubstruck by it's sheer legendary awesomeness. And now, a month later, the project has been touched by the hands of our's best's best (if that's even a methaporical sentence or gramattically correct) and Project APERTURE is born. Completed, finished, pronto."


First, I am pleased to inform you that the '''Assassin's Creed Wiki''' in association with '''Wikia Corporation''' will host it's first giveaway ever! We got our hands into copies of Ubisoft Games including AC, AC2 and ACBH, and a contest will open next week ^^ The games are PC only, but with the plus side of being delivered worldwide -- no US residents only.
As such, I am listing below the names of all who were invaluable for this project. The '''Oscreed''' goes to:
* [[User:Animusradiation|Animusradiation]] -- Lead Designer of Project Aperture. 100% responsible for graphics and art direction, and grandly executed.
* [[User:DarkFeather|DarkFeather]] -- Main coder of Project Aperture. Without him, I would never be able to assemble those images together. I was dumbstruck by what he did in short time, and I officially reccomend that his [[User:Assassin-Rayne|master]] promote him for his work here ^^ Y'feel me?
* [[User:Tierrie|Tierrie]] -- Head of DAWiki (one of our partners, [http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki check them out]) and creator of the portal system. His guidance with the inner workings of the portal and project ideas helped it become what it is.


===Entry===
Check out the main page if you haven't, and make sure to let us know what you think on the comments below!
For entrance, each contestant must have a Valid Steam Account and be over 16 years old -- since AC games are rated as "Mature" by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Rating_Board ESRG], users who win it must be over the minimum age. If you are below that age, the contestant must be your parent or older sibling -- '''any winner who fails to prove to be over 16 will be disqualified'''.


The giveaway will consist of 3 (three) methods of entry:
==Giveaway==
* a creative quote contest for creative people who can't draw
* a art contest for creative people who can draw
* a random lottery for who's none of the above


Keep in mind participation is accepted in all three entries, so a user can submit a art, a quote and a waffle on the lottery and have 3 chances of winning.
Next we have the [[Project:Giveaway|giveaway]]! Already announced on the previous news post, I now have the honour to announce:
<center>'''''The giveaway is officially open!'''''</center>


====Creative quote====
Also, as an added bonus, we are also presenting two users with 1600 microsoft points. Unlike the rest of the giveaway, the Microsoft points are US residents only =/ But at least some of you XBox users out there will have the chance to use it ^^ (and Ubisoft can consider this a slap on the face because of the PS3 exclusive shit that's been happenign since Brotherhood. And go ahead and take another slap for making PC players wait for months. Yeah!)
<center>'''"What Ezio says when his blade doesn't spring?"'''</center>


Write a creative quote with that subject in mind. Yes, it's a innuendo. Yes, it's the best we came up with. Yeah? Well, up yours, buddy.
For more on the giveaway, including how to participate, '''[[Project:Giveaway|check this out]]'''.


==Partners==


====Art Contest====
Recently, I've been talking to two good friends of mine that I've know for over a year, [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/User:SpartHawg948 SpartHawg]] from [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_Wiki Mass Effect Wiki] and [http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tierrie Tierrie] from [http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki Dragon Age Wiki], both of which also happen to be leaders of their respective wikis, and due to our wikis about great franchises that value gameplay and story above all else and the fact we are three of the most legendary gaming wikis on Wikia network and we all ahve a LOT of users and traffic, I approached then with the idea of creating a partner system, with the current aim of improving flow between wikis and making everyone grow even more, but also not closing doors to joint efforts in the future. They accepted and for a week or so, we are all brothers of the same wiki partnership ^^


Pictures!! Everybody loves pictures of AC stuff, specially well done ones. As such,people can particiapte by submitting their own (repeat: their OWN. we will search google and deviant art and the end of the universe if necessary to find out if you stole it from somewhere) pictures based on AC canon. To reduce the ammount of topics and help narrow your efforts in such short time, the subject of the drawing is:
<center>'''"Passing of the torch"'''</center>
With [[Ezio]] retiring/dying and [[Altaïr]] retired/dead, we feel the need to express the whole idea behind the next AC game -- as such, the passing of the torch and continuing of the lineage of Assassins. Altaïr to Ezio, Ezio to Marcello nad Flavia, Desmond, whatever -- the one drawing who best embodies the continuing unstoppable lineage of awesome assassins gets the prize!


But, I always like to keep moving things forward, and due to the fact that most users here on our lovely AC Staff are also editing or responsible for other wikis out there, the same door I opened for DA and ME was opened to them ,and as such, ACWiki has a quite numerous list of gaming wikis we're associated with XD Now, I know that some of these games have nothing to do with AC, but when that happens, we msut remember that everyone here is doing this by will and will alone -- nobody's getting anything off it. As such, the simple fact that we may help other wikis grow, even if we ourselves get nothing substantial is reason enough for us to do it. As such, follows a list of our current wiki partners!


====Lottery / Waffle (not the eating kind)====
{{Portal/Component/Sexbuddies}}


People will signup on a page, and each name will be numbered. At the end of the giveaway, we take the numbers and thrown them on a random number generator, then we take the winning number and see who it belongs to. That will prevent favoritism or cheating of any kind.
'''Make sure to check them out!'''
 
 
===Prizes===
*Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition (PC)
*Assassin's Creed II: Director's Cut Edition (PC)
*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (PC)
 
===Dates===
The giveaway will start on September 7th and end on October 8th.


==Podcast==
==Podcast==
Next comes PODCASTS! We, the ACWiki, in addition to the OutcastTemplarsClan[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs-ZWqX-wcw], a BH and future ACR multiplayer clan, will be making a podcast with live broadcast of the ACR beta to all of you out there who don't have a PS3, and we will also discuss topics related to the whole AC series in general, past and future, including expectations and history overall. A part of my staff will be present on these podcasts (and one copy of AC will be awarded live!) so make sure to drop by and listen -- this will also be a test bed for our own ACWiki podcast in the future.
The podcast shall go live next week, time and day yet to define, sorry =/ A [http://www.livestream.com/assassinspodcast LIVE broadcast] of the podcast will happen, where listeners will be able to interact with the podcasters, and for those who can't listen because of time or bussyness, we will record it and it will be avaiable for listening later, for the hefty sum of 14,99$ each edition (kidding XD).
The podcast will feature a set number of hosts (one of which is yours truly) and 3 to 4 guests will be called every week. People from wiki, multiplayer and maybe we can get even Ubi people here -- aim high, and aim right.
More info will follow during this week -- stay tuned.
==Special Guest==
Today, I have a special guest on my news post: Harry Potte--I mean, [[User:Elchzard|Elchzard]]! He is here to announce to you some of the discoveries made regarding the AC Encylopedia. Take it away, Elch.
[[File:IstruttoriNew.png|left|50px]][[File:IstruttoriNew.png|right|50px]]
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Hello, people. [[User:Elchzard|Elch]] here, hiding in Cello's news post, here to tell you about some of the new info we've got from the [[Ubiworkshop]] "Making Of" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjU0qXXZpck video], about the new [[Assassin's Creed: The Encyclopedia|Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia]].<br />
So, we've got a fair bit of new stuff.<br />
First, and probably most significantly, Ezio and Altaïr's dates of death.
It can now be officially confirmed that Altaïr lived from 1165-1257, and Ezio from 1459-1524. This puts Ezio's date of death during [[Assassin's Creed: Embers]]. Screenshots from the video can be seen [http://gyazo.com/fe053554b0b3518db2635afd61dbcccb here] and [http://gyazo.com/75d4fefc69a0823e4ca84d667bcf2d9b here].<br />
We also have a new image for Daniel Cross, not in comic book form, which can be seen in the gallery just down there.<br />
Also, some news on some new characters - [[Piri Reis]], and [[Shao Jun]], the latter of which '''definitely''' appears in Embers. Credit goes to [[User:Master Sima Yi|Sima]] for that particular discovery.<br />
And we finally have confirmation that the mysterious "M." in "William M." does '''indeed''' stand for [[William Miles|Miles]]!<br />
Lastly, there was a bit of new information on [[Erudito]]. Take a look at the page for more on that.
<gallery captionalign="left">
Daniel Cross AC Encyclopedia.png|New Daniel Cross image.|link=Daniel Cross
ShaoJunEzio.png|Ezio, conversing with new Assassin, Shao Jun, in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv3OabBh2cY Assassin's Creed: Embers trailer].|link=Assassin's Creed: Embers
Shao Jun.png|Concept art of new Assassin, Shao Jun, taken from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjU0qXXZpck video] on the making of the Encyclopedia.|link=Shao Jun
William Miles.jpg|Screenshot from the video, showing "William Miles" at the very top of the ''Friends and Allies'' list. (Click the image for a larger version.)
</gallery>
I think you'll all agree that this is some insanely cool stuff, and I can't wait to get my hands on that book, come November. :)<br />
Thanks to all the fellas on the [[Project:IRC|IRC]] earlier, for being such clever people and getting all this information. I'm fairly sure there's some stuff we missed, to, so if anybody else has gleaned any awesome facts from the video, let us know in the comments! :)<br />
Thanks for listening – Elch out.
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[[File:IstruttoriNew.png|left|50px]][[File:IstruttoriNew.png|right|50px]]


Recently, some of you may have heard that we tried a joint venture effort with OTC clan on a podcast, and I must say in behalf of my fellow wikimembers that were part of it that we were somewhat dissapointed by the event. This is not the place or time to complain about things, but the lack of organization and effort to exectue it gave us the push to make our own podcast happen. More news will come along the road as we get things done, and when they do, info will appear [[Assassin's Creed Wiki:Podcast|on this page]] (and also be news announced, so don't worry XD No need to check that page daily =P)




Fantastic!
[[File:The Wounded Eagle 9.png|thumb|"BAM said the lady!"]]
[[File:The Wounded Eagle 2.png|thumb|"Oh crap crap crap crap crap crap!!!"]]


And that ends our news posts for today!
And that ends our news posts for today!
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"Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them."
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."

Revision as of 19:57, 6 September 2011


A new era shines on the wiki.

The rise of this new dawn shines its lights on our wiki projects, bringing awesomeness all over it.

Project: Aperture

First, I like to present to you the conclusion of Project APERTURE. After months of hard work that sweep through resources and dedications of all levels of wiki hierarchy, the main page portal has finally been completed. In honor of this awesome job, I'll give a brief history of it's inception and list all the contributors that made it happen.

2 months ago, we implemented a new main slider. It was just a addition of buttons, but a idea placed itself on my mind -- something was not right, we could do better. As a hand of destiny reached over ACWiki, I was contacted a day later by User:Animusradiation with a prototype of portal unlike anything I've ever seen before. Awed by it, I began working with him in secret. A couples of week later, we began disclosing it to select people on a need to know basis, and a month later, a official wiki announcement was made. The project was met with unnanymous awe, the reception dubstruck by it's sheer legendary awesomeness. And now, a month later, the project has been touched by the hands of our's best's best (if that's even a methaporical sentence or gramattically correct) and Project APERTURE is born. Completed, finished, pronto."

As such, I am listing below the names of all who were invaluable for this project. The Oscreed goes to:

  • Animusradiation -- Lead Designer of Project Aperture. 100% responsible for graphics and art direction, and grandly executed.
  • DarkFeather -- Main coder of Project Aperture. Without him, I would never be able to assemble those images together. I was dumbstruck by what he did in short time, and I officially reccomend that his master promote him for his work here ^^ Y'feel me?
  • Tierrie -- Head of DAWiki (one of our partners, check them out) and creator of the portal system. His guidance with the inner workings of the portal and project ideas helped it become what it is.

Check out the main page if you haven't, and make sure to let us know what you think on the comments below!

Giveaway

Next we have the giveaway! Already announced on the previous news post, I now have the honour to announce:

The giveaway is officially open!

Also, as an added bonus, we are also presenting two users with 1600 microsoft points. Unlike the rest of the giveaway, the Microsoft points are US residents only =/ But at least some of you XBox users out there will have the chance to use it ^^ (and Ubisoft can consider this a slap on the face because of the PS3 exclusive shit that's been happenign since Brotherhood. And go ahead and take another slap for making PC players wait for months. Yeah!)

For more on the giveaway, including how to participate, check this out.

Partners

Recently, I've been talking to two good friends of mine that I've know for over a year, SpartHawg] from Mass Effect Wiki and Tierrie from Dragon Age Wiki, both of which also happen to be leaders of their respective wikis, and due to our wikis about great franchises that value gameplay and story above all else and the fact we are three of the most legendary gaming wikis on Wikia network and we all ahve a LOT of users and traffic, I approached then with the idea of creating a partner system, with the current aim of improving flow between wikis and making everyone grow even more, but also not closing doors to joint efforts in the future. They accepted and for a week or so, we are all brothers of the same wiki partnership ^^


But, I always like to keep moving things forward, and due to the fact that most users here on our lovely AC Staff are also editing or responsible for other wikis out there, the same door I opened for DA and ME was opened to them ,and as such, ACWiki has a quite numerous list of gaming wikis we're associated with XD Now, I know that some of these games have nothing to do with AC, but when that happens, we msut remember that everyone here is doing this by will and will alone -- nobody's getting anything off it. As such, the simple fact that we may help other wikis grow, even if we ourselves get nothing substantial is reason enough for us to do it. As such, follows a list of our current wiki partners!

Affiliates

w:c:dragonage
w:c:dragonage
w:c:masseffect
w:c:masseffect
w:c:infamous
w:c:infamous
w:c:prototype
w:c:prototype
w:c:hitman
w:c:hitman
w:c:uncharted
w:c:uncharted
w:c:redfaction
w:c:redfaction
w:c:slycooper
w:c:slycooper
w:c:callofjuarez
w:c:callofjuarez
w:c:cheevoarchive
w:c:cheevoarchive
w::c:playstationallstarsbattleroyale
w::c:playstationallstarsbattleroyale
w::c:elderscrolls
w::c:elderscrolls
<choose><option>http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110512160838/metro2033/images/thumb/8/89/Wiki-wordmark.png/150px-Wiki-wordmark.png</option></choose>]] <choose><option>http://images.wikia.com/deusex/en/images/thumb/8/89/Wiki-wordmark.png/150px-Wiki-wordmark.png</option></choose>]]


Make sure to check them out!

Podcast

Recently, some of you may have heard that we tried a joint venture effort with OTC clan on a podcast, and I must say in behalf of my fellow wikimembers that were part of it that we were somewhat dissapointed by the event. This is not the place or time to complain about things, but the lack of organization and effort to exectue it gave us the push to make our own podcast happen. More news will come along the road as we get things done, and when they do, info will appear on this page (and also be news announced, so don't worry XD No need to check that page daily =P)


"BAM said the lady!"

And that ends our news posts for today!

Make sure to drop by the IRC, and keep your ears pelled for more info regarding the podcast and giveaway later this week -- the official pages shall be announced here in a day or two.

That is all for today. Post your comments below -- me and the staff want to hear your oppinions! Safety and peace, and a good week to all!

Cello out.


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"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."