An interview with Alberto Coco, marketing manager of Ubisoft Italia, and Raffaella Senesi, mayor of Monteriggioni. It has been eight years now since the release of Assassin’s Creed II and some interesting facts have come to light regarding the impact that Ubisoft’s title had on the Tuscany village.
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The region of Umbria joins IVIPRO
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Umbria is now part of the list of Italian regions to be mapped for IVIPRO, together with Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Liguria, Marche, Piedmont, Apulia, Sardinia, Sicily, Aosta Valley, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Tuscany and Trentino.
Princesa Mafalda, history of a shipwreck
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IVIPRO has posed some questions to the development team of the visual novel Princesa Mafalda. This game tells the history of the Italian steamship Principessa Mafalda, that sank in 1927 off the Brazilian coast.
The region of Liguria joins IVIPRO
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Liguria is now part of the list of Italian regions to be mapped for IVIPRO, together with Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Marche, Piedmont, Apulia, Sardinia, Sicily, Aosta Valley, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Tuscany and Trentino.
Discovering the past with an app: Antica Aquileia 3D
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Antica Aquileia 3D represents a really historical and archaeological guide that allows the user to discover the splendour of an ancient civilisation
The regions of Basilicata and Calabria join IVIPRO
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Basilicata and Calabria are now part of the list of Italian regions to be mapped for IVIPRO, together with Campania, Marche, Lazio, Piedmont, Apulia, Sardinia, Sicily, Aosta Valley, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Tuscany and Trentino.
The region of Marche joins IVIPRO
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Marche is now part of the list of Italian regions to be mapped for IVIPRO, together with Campania, Lazio, Piedmont, Apulia, Sardinia, Sicily, Aosta Valley, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Tuscany and Trentino.
The Land of Horror: An alternative portrait of Italy
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Whilst there may not be a horror video game tradition in Italy, some Italian developers have been exploring this genre over the last years.
Museum Development. Playing with museums
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The Naples National Archaeological Museum enters the videogame world with the forthcoming Father and Son, the latest addition to the long, ongoing path through which museums have been exploring the language of videogames.
Playing Etruscan
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After discovering Uncharted 4‘s Etruscan “Sarcophagus of the Spouses”, based on the models on display at the National Etruscan Museum housed in Villa Giulia, Rome, and at the Louvre Museum in Paris, we decided to investigate the references to the Etruscan civilization that can be found in videogames.