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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced creative director says his top three favorite elements of the remake are the fight system, the new missions, and the new end game chapters — 'We have received a lot of positive reactions to the story'

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced creative director Paul Fu has shared his favorite new elements that Ubisoft has added to the upcoming remake.

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"The senseless, random act of violence against someone so full of life and innocence was mind-blowing, and I hated Los Angeles for a long time after that." How the murder of Henry Rollins' friend inspired two songs on Sonic Youth's 1992 album Dirty

The killing of roadie and documentarian Joe Cole remains unsolved 35 years on

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"Old-school classic" or "the post-Shadows Assassin's Creed"? Black Flag Resynced devs explain where the remake sits in the series' history

Big Preview | Ubisoft's Paul Fu, Richard Knight, and Julian Koch talk balancing two distinct eras of the series within Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced perfectly captures the spirit of the original, but benefits from some much-needed upgrades

After three hours of sailing the high seas, firing cannons, stealthing through plantations, and giving it to baddies, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is on course to be a brilliantly done remake.

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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a textbook remaster

The spitting image of the game I remember, despite how much it's actually changed.

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Ubisoft announces real-life treasure hunt to celebrate Black Flag Resynced with $500,000 on the line

Become the real-world version of Edward Kenway.

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"We thought Venom were excellent. But then they came to New York and we found out that they weren't joking." Why the Beastie Boys were disappointed to discover that British metal legends Venom weren't a comedy band

Venom: unlikely heroes to the New York hardcore community

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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced will ‘bring the classic game back to life’ — here are 7 new things I’m looking forward to

As an Assassin’s Creed expert, here are 7 things I’m looking forward to in Black Flag Resynced.

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The 5 biggest changes coming to Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

Avast me hearties! These are the biggest changes coming to the Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced remake

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13 years on, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is finally fixing the biggest problem I had with the original

Preview | With new content and bountiful improvements, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is helping me find my sea legs again

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“We played it at CBGB’s. The label guy said, ‘That’s a single.’ We said, ‘Oh, no... That’s not going on the album. That’s a joke song!’” It was nothing more than a throwaway jam – then they were playing it at the Grammys in tuxedos

In the annals of ’90s alt-rock one-off hits, few were more improbable than Liar, the snarky funk-metal jam that brought hardcore heavyweight Henry Rollins and his band onto mainstream radio, and to music's biggest stage

Guitar World

I’m equal parts hopeful and terrified of a potential Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake — here’s what I need Ubisoft to change, and what should be left alone entirely

As Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake rumors gather speed, I'm looking at the things I want to see Ubisoft change in a potential remake. Also, some aspects that I want left out of it entirely.

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Ubisoft chalks up sudden reupload of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag music on YouTube to technical issues, but of course, no one is buying that

Suspiciously, it only happened to the game rumored to get a remake

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"It was the perfect tragedy. Heavy metal albums found in their rooms, antisocial behaviour." How Lemmy, Corey Taylor, Henry Rollins and the metal community united to save three teenagers at the heart of a murder case that shocked America

The story of the West Memphis Three captured the attention of the metal world - and some of its biggest artists took action

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Because nothing screams punk rock louder than millionaire rock stars performing for hedge fund bros, watch Eddie Vedder, Anthony Kiedis, Brandi Carlile, Slash and friends play Stooges, Motorhead, Dead Boys covers at billionaire's private corporate gig

Who said money can't buy you happiness?

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"I hated everybody. I had no friends." The wild, unapologetic life of punk rock's forgotten hellraiser, Casey Chaos

How Casey Chaos became a punk rock icon for the nu metal generation

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“I never met anyone who was his own person as much as Al was”: SSD guitarist and hardcore pioneer Al Barile dies aged 63

Barile was a key player in the Boston hardcore scene in the 1980s

Guitar World

“It sold for $937,000 to an anonymous buyer who, we assume, doesn't play punk rock for a living”: From Joe Strummer’s Tele to Johnny Ramone's Mosrite, here are the iconic guitars behind the sound of punk – and the modern-day equivalents you can buy today

The filth, the fury, and '80s Fernandes Strat copies – these guitars, amps, and effects defined the sound of some of rock's greatest, and most rebellious, bands

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6 years after successfully crowdfunding a game about orphans in a cyberpunk warzone, the studio making it has closed: 'We've been so close to a release, several times, and there's a lot to regret after all the work done'

Studio founder Adrien Forestier says it's the end of Black Flag but promises he'll "do whatever I can so it's not the end for Orphan Age."

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"We did desert shows at this empty pool by a nudist colony": How Fu Manchu spent thirty years preparing for The Return Of Tomorrow

Going from hardcore punks to stoner rock is a big leap,but Fu Manchu made it – with a little help from Melvins

The Guardian - UK

Go hard or go home: why is hardcore punk enjoying a renaissance?

The success of Manchester’s Outbreak festival shows the appetite for the genre isn’t just healthy, it’s on the rise. Its organisers discuss the scene’s evolution, its fragility, and its (very loud) future

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"We were something you couldn’t cage. You’d get skinheads beating the crap outta each other in front of the stage." The chaotic story of Misfits’ horror-punk classic Earth A.D./Wolfsblood

1983’s Earth A.D./Wolsblood album showed off Misfits at their fastest and most vicious – but it would become their gravestone

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"MTV was the first time that technology became a rock star": The story of 1984, the year everything changed

Sitting between the heritage of the 70s and the glitzy, big-haired peak to which the 80s would ascend, 1984 was a quietly pivotal time for music, popular culture and the world as we knew it

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“These rebels are our own children… who masquerade at night in leather and chains yet retreat by the light of day back into the fabric of our society”: watch US TV show Tomorrow investigate the dark side of punk rock in America in 1980

Blood! Mohawks! Nazi salutes! In 1980, NBC’s The Tomorrow Show took a solemn, sober and unwittingly hilarious look at hardcore punk

Reason

How Rage Against the Machine Used Capitalism To Sell Communism

A calculated corporate deal propelled these radical rockers all the way to the Hall of Fame.

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