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Last year, Assassin’s Creed Shadows became a target for right-wing culture warriors ranging from random shareholders to Elon Musk. In a recent video shown at Paris Games Week, Ubisoft reportedly tried to take back ownership of the narrative surrounding the attacks and demonstrate a potential playbook for dealing with haters online. How much of it is just spin remains to …

The next big update for Assassin’s Creed Shadows will be deployed on the 28th October, and Ubisoft has just shared the full patch notes ahead of launch. Title Update 1.1.4 has some major additions, such as the introduction of Corrupted Castles and an option to remove many of the game’s parkour-related limitations. The former is basically a whole new activity …

Ghost of Yotei versus Assassin’s Creed Shadows Sony/Ubisoft Ghost of Yotei is a hit, matching or potentially exceeding the sales of its predecessor, Ghost of Tsushima, say analysts. But it was not the only samurai/ninja game released this year, paired with Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows. But it appears Yotei was the more anticipated pick, by far. New estimates from analytics …

After seven months on the market, Assassin’s Creed Shadows has sold less on PS5 (2.4M) than Ghost of Yotei did (2.5M) in under three weeks, showing that this samurai showdown is just about settled. Across all platforms, Shadows performed well in isolation, selling just over 4.3M copies as per our estimates, with 56% on PS5, 26% on Xbox, and 18% …

Another rumored Nintendo Switch 2 is confirmed, with Ubisoft today officially announcing a port of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The port will be ready to go on December 2, 2025. Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which only just launched in March, is the latest mainline entry in the action adventure franchise. This time around, dual protagonists Fujibayashi Naoe and Yasuke are featured in …

Assassin’s Creed series lead Marc-Alexis Côté is leaving Ubisoft, shortly after the formation of Vantage Studios, the Ubisoft / Tencent subsidiary which will develop future Assassin’s Creed games. This news was announced via internal emails which circulated the company, reports IGN. The outlet also understands that Côté was offered a new role at Vantage Studios, but declined the offer. An …

Image: Nintendo Life Multiple rumours have been doing the rounds regarding a potential Switch 2 release for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the latest flagship entry in Ubisoft’s stealth series, with age ratings and even box art images making their way online. Now, thanks to prominent leaker Billbil-kun over on Dealabs, we may now know the proposed launch date for Shadows. According …

Ubisoft reportedly scrapped an Assassin’s Creed game set after the American Civil War due to “online backlash” of Yasuke in Shadows and an “increasingly intense” political climate in the US. That’s according to Game File, which spoke with five “current and former Ubisoft employees” who shared information anonymously. The game, claimed to have been in the concept phase, was said …

Actor Ralph Ineson, who played the pirate Charles Vane in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, has reacted to the recent revelation that Ubisoft reportedly canceled an American Civil War Assassin’s Creed game. He said on social media, “Once again, f**k off.” A report from Game File said the idea for a game’s setting–the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era …

Ubisoft allegedly cancelled plans for a new Assassin’s Creed game set in in the aftermath of the American Civil War last year, with online moaning about Assassin’s Creed Shadows co-protagonist Yasuke and concerns over the volatility of the modern day US political climate being cited as reasons.