French videogame titan Ubisoft is expanding the world of “Assassin’s Creed” to Facebook, breaking down the barrier between play on consoles and at the hot online social network.
“Project Legacy”, available free for play at Facebook, is Ubisoft’s first “companion game” crafted to let gameplay achievements at a social network pay off in console versions and vice versa.
“It’s basically a back-and-forth mechanism for passing value between games that are complementary in the same universe,” said former Microsoft executive Chris Early, head of Ubisoft’s freshly-created digital publishing team.
