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Ubisoft has announced that their brilliant stab'em up Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood will be getting new content in March, with The Da Vinci Disappearance DLC adding new single-player and multiplayer content to the popular action adventure game.

Following on from the fall of the Borgias in Rome, the single-player portion sees Ezio on a quest to recover stolen paintings in order to find Leonardo Da Vinci who's managed to get himself kidnapped by the Hermeticists - an underground cult dedicated to transforming mankind. During his adventures, Ezio will uncover two new locations across 8 missions, as well as two new unspecified gameplay features.

On the multiplayer side, serial stabbers can look forward to a new map, Alhambra, "a lush environment set in Spain's Albaicin of Granada" with multi-leveled indoor and outdoor areas for picking off your enemies, as well as four new characters: Dama Rossa, the Knight, the Marquis and the Pariah. And to top it off, the DLC will also include two new modes: Escort, which sees two teams of four pitted against each other, with teams taking turns to either try assassinate the other team's VIP, or protect their own; and Assassinate, a straight up 8-player deathmatch mode over 10 minutes.

The Da Vinci Disappearance DLC will be out "early March" on Xbox LIVE for a reasonable sounding 800 MS Points. While you wait, why not check out the debut trailer and screenshots giving us a sneak peak at what's in store: