After months of internal emails and corporate reshuffling, Ubisoft Leamington has now publicly confirmed its permanent closure. The announcement came not through a high-profile press release or coordinated corporate messaging—but instead via a modest two-part post on the studio’s unverified X account, symbolizing how far Ubisoft’s reach has fallen.
Ubisoft announced ahead of its upcoming investors call that it has delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows to February 2025. In a document updating its financial targets for FY2024-25, Ubisoft announced, "Assassin’s Creed Shadows will now be released on 14 February...
Ubisoft finds itself in hot water again over Assassin's Creed Shadows and specifically a Qlectors collectible that features Yasuke and Naoe on what appears to be a One-Legged Torii gate. The figure, which is available to purchase on Big Bad Toy Store, is created by...
A former Sweet Baby Inc. employee, Kazuma Hashimoto, revealed that developers did not want to hire him because he worked for the video game consultancy. Hashimoto was recently featured in an article written by Zachary Small at The New York Times, where he claimed that...
The so-called Japanese consultant that Ubisoft and The New York Times used to attack gamers over Assassin's Creed Shadows turns out to be an employee of Sweet Baby Inc. In a most recent hit piece run by The New York Times that appears to have been done in...
Marc-Alexis Côté, Ubisoft's Executive Producer for its Assassin's Creed franchise, recently admitted the company's aim with Assassin's Creed Shadows is to go "beyond what is accepted truth." In an interview with The New York Times that Ubisoft used as a hit piece to...
French video game developer Ubisoft ran to The New York Times in order to attack its own players in an attempt to salvage its upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game. In a play straight out of Prime Video's playbook for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,...
Assassin's Creed Shadows Art Director Thierry Dansereau recently addressed the numerous criticisms the game has faced from Elon Musk, Japanese gamers, and more regarding the developers' creative choices specifically its decision to make Yasuke and Naoe the main...
A rumor claims that physical pre-orders for Ubisoft's upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game are less than 800 from a national retail chain that has over 900 stores. This rumor comes from Craig Skistimas aka Stuttering Craig, who owns and hosts the Side Scrollers...
Ubisoft laid off approximately 45 employees ahead of the release of Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows. An Ubisoft spokesman confirmed to Bloomberg that the "difficult yet necessary decision was made to align these studios’ organizations with their future...
The Japanese government and specifically the Gunma Prefecture exposed another contradiction of Assassin's Creed Shadows collaborator Thomas Lockley. Lockley collaborated with Ubisoft on Assassin's Creed Shadows for an episode of the company's Echoes of History podcast...
Assassin's Creed Shadows Lead Producer Karl Onnée doubled down on Ubisoft's previous claims that the game is committed to historical accuracy despite being trashed by gamers for its lack of historical accuracy. Gamers including Japanese gamers have made it abundantly...
A new player sentiment analysis conducted by PlayerXP contradicts Ubisoft's claim that Assassin's Creed Shadows has "positive community sentiment." During the company's Q1 FY2025 Sales conference call in July, an investor from HSBC asked about how pre-orders for both...