Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Désilets has revealed his new game by his studio Panache Digital Games – Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.

The developer showed off a quick tease of the project at the Reboot Develop 2015 conference in Croatia (clip from Eurogamer), and it ran through some of Mankind's accomplishments: our first use of tools, Darwin's birth, landing on the moon, and other achievements and monumental events from our species' history. The clip even pokes fun at Assassin's Creed.

More details for the project are on the game's official website, which reveals that Ancestors is a third-person "action-adventure survival episodic" game. Players will relive these high points from our past, but Panache warns that, "our civilization is one idea away from extinction or evolution."

Nintendo is putting its muscle behind Monolith Soft's upcoming RPG Xenoblade Chronicles X. The Wii U-exclusive will be the star of a Nintendo Direct video presentation tomorrow, followed by a special episode of Nintendo Treehouse: Live.

Although Nintendo isn't providing details on what they'll be showing, we have a pretty good idea. Nintendo hosted the third and final Direct for the game in Japan a few weeks ago, and the presentation focused on the game's robotic Dolls and its network features. Former Game Informer intern Justin Mikos wrote an extensive preview of the game based on that Direct, and it's definitely worth reading in advance of tomorrow's shows.

The Direct begins tomorrow, April 24, at 11 a.m. Pacific. Tune in here to watch it live.

iam8bit is teaming up with Sony and Thatgamecompany to release a vinyl edition of Journey's soundtrack with original art.

The vinyl version of the soundtrack will ship on two records with original art on either side, as well as original art on the records' sleeve.

It will be $35, and a print of the art featured on the sleeve is available for $60. You can head here to to pre-order soundtrack starting on 10:00 AM on Thursday, April 23 here.

Capcom is bringing a licensed Ghostbusters puzzle and card game to iOS.

Capcom hasn't exactly keeping it a secret. It was asking for interested players to take a survey about the game earlier this month. On Capcom Unity's website where it announced the game, you will find the brief description:

An all new iOS game from Beeline. Assemble the ultimate team of Ghostbusters and ghosts. Part puzzler, part card game, part RPG, “Ghostbusters Puzzle Fighter” gives you the chance to collect characters from the Ghostbusters universe.

Enthusiastically. The BioWare store is now selling talking Elcor plushies.

Elcor are a race from the Mass Effect series, whose monotone voices limit their ability to express themselves. To make do, they use adjectives that describe their manner and tone of speech.These adorable stuffed animals come with five different phrases: 

The plush is about seven inches tall, and batteries are included. They are selling for $30 on BioWare's online store.

Konami has put a silly little minigame in its Star Wars: Force Collection collectible-card game. Chewbacca gets his own chance to shine thanks to an homage to the company's own NES game, Contra.

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It features nods to the classic game, including spread shots, spinning jumps, and behind-the-back sections. Konami says the four-level minigame is only available for a limited time, so if this seems like something you'd be into, you should head the iOS or Android marketplaces.

NECA's new 7-inch Dante figure is based on the original vision for the character from 2001's Devil May Cry (don't be fooled by NECA calling it a Devil May Cry 4 figure), and it should be available any day now at select retailers. The figure comes with Dante's Ebony and Ivory pistols (complete with removable bursts), his Alastor sword, a shotgun, and interchangeable hands for different poses and grips. Dante features 35 points of articulation.

The packaging is mocked up to look like the original game box, complete with an opening flap to view Dante and his accessories. Like many of NECA's toys, this is a limited-run release that won't see a second shipment.

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Starting tomorrow April 23, Conker’s Big Reunion Episode 1 and the Conker Creation Pack will launch in Project Spark. Perhaps more exciting though is that the Conker Creation Pack was sent out to ten creators in the community early and they will begin sharing their games tomorrow as well.

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The trailer above highlights what the community was able to create in Project Spark which includes everything from recreations of classic Conker levels and scenes, to recreating the multiplayer, and new experiences like a Plants vs. Zombies style strategy game. All ten games were created in ten weeks and players have certainly come up with some impressive things. You can check out most of these free games starting tomorrow.

Minecraft dominates the top 20 list of gaming franchises with the most YouTube views last month. Check out how Minecraft and the rest performed.

Bungie revealed several key pieces of info about the upcoming Destiny expansion, House of Wolves, today. The DLC includes a new social space, as well as a host of fundamental changes to the game’s upgrade system and economy.

The House of Wolves have rebelled against the Queen, and have scattered throughout the galaxy. It’s now up to the Guardians to clean up the mess through a series of quests and bounties. Bungie says these aren’t simple rehashes of past bounties, either. There isn’t any new raid content, but the studio says that endgame content will play out differently every time. They aren’t yet elaborating on how exactly that works.