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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.

Ubisoft reportedly cancelled development on its next Assassin’s Creed game last year over political concerns due to its planned post-American Civil War setting. As reported by Game File, the game would have been set in the Reconstruction period that followed the civil war in the 1860s and 1870s, with players taking the role of a Black former slave fighting for …

Sitting, as they do, at the intersection between “actual human history” and “stabbing the shit out of a ton of powerful dickheads,” Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed games have always been inherently political, pretty much by default. It’s built right there into the concept, after all, even before you get into games that specifically deal with topics like slavery, political revolutions, or racially …

There are a lot of Assassin’s Creed games I haven’t played, but when I hear that Ubisoft’s historical fiction franchise is exploring an interesting moment in human history, my ears perk up. Game File has a new report about one game that didn’t make it out of Ubisoft, and everything from its fascinating concept to the maddening reasons it was …

An Assassin’s Creed game set during and after the American Civil War? It apparently existed, according to a fresh report from Game File. We write ‘existed’ because the project was apparently cancelled last year, and the details are only just starting to drip out of Ubisoft. More specifically, this would have been the most modern Assassin’s Creed title to date …

Will the jump button come back in the next Assassin’s Creed? Will Battlefield 6 really work right out of the box? Can PowerWash Simulator 2 prevent the further atomization of modern society? It’s the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news and culture. I am still thinking about Xbox and how much Microsoft keeps fumbling the …