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'Assassin's Creed' calls on historian for London edition

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judith Flanders has never played video games — not even “Angry Birds” — so no one was more surprised than the historian herself when she was approached by the developers of the “Assassin’s Creed” franchise to serve as a consultant on the latest installment, set on the streets of 19th-century London amid the Industrial Revolution.