Ubisoft has announced that it plans to release the PC version of Assassin's Creed II on March 16 and also offered the minimal and the optimum hardware configurations needed to play the game. Assassin's Creed II was launched on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony on November 17.

Ubisoft is saying that the title will cost interested gamers 59.99 dollars, which is higher than normal for a PC title but will include add-ons like the Battle of Forli and Bonfire of Vanities. The publisher is also talking about a Black Edition of the game, which will cost 64.99 dollars and will include even more content, although its exact nature has not yet been unveiled.

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While Valve has been cuddling some of its games, like Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2, its older titles haven't received any serious attention in a long time. The last big update Counter Strike: Source received was in 2007, with the introduction of the Pure Servers and the "sv_pure," which was a very unwelcome decision by the community. As such, some are starting to think that, for games to be popular enough to receive Valve's affection, they need to carry "the mark of the sequel," the big 2.

Talks about an upgrade to CS have been going around for some time now, with the Pro Mod being the biggest one of them. As for work from Valve, one of the last talks about CS2 was all the way back in 2008, when Valve's Gabe Newell firmly said that Counter Strike 2 was not something that we might find in the next Orange Box.
But we also heard Doug Lombardi, the VP of marketing for Valve, saying that it "will never abandon Counter Strike." Even so, every time the topic of CS2 pops up in a Valve conversation, all we get are crickets.

And now, five years after the game was released, the community has decided that enough is enough, and a petition has been started, with CS fans from across the globe signing to get CS2 developed. The main thing the petition tries to draw attention to is the slow death of what was once the most popular first-person shooter on the PC. But while the market for multiplayer FPS is definitely here, Valve hasn't given any signs that it plans to resurrect the title. Modern Warfare 2 brought back the genre, and especially the multiplayer matches, into the public eye like no other game, but with the PC implementation Infinity Ward gave it, PC players didn't get all that much out of it.

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