Assassin’s Creed Shadows has finally released, and one might naively assume Ubisoft’s woes are over. Surely, with their self-proclaimed “reputable” marketing and unwavering dedication to historical authenticity, this game will sell like cold lemonade in the desert.
After all, the delays—costing a rumored $20 million—were supposedly to address every issue raised by fans and the barrage of bad press, right?
Assassin's Creed Shadows developer Ubisoft is refusing to remove a banner it stole from a reenactment group for its upcoming artbook for the game, and a representative of the group has revealed he's contacted Square Enix to get the image removed from the book. In the...
Thomas Lockley, the author of African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan, contradicted past statements about collaborating with Ubisoft on Assassin's Creed Shadows' amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the character...
Japanese gamers are not happy with Ubisoft and its recent statement apologizing for "creating concern with the Japanese community" with Assassin's Creed Shadows. Ubisoft through the official Assassin's Creed account on X stated, "To our esteemed Japanese community — a...
Ubisoft executives CEO Yves Guillemot and CFO Frédérick Duguet did their best to avoid questions from institutional investors regarding the company's potential sales for its upcoming games Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows. During the company's Q1 FY 2024...
Video game publisher and developer Ubisoft released a statement to Japanese players amidst massive backlash to the company's upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game. Japanese players launched a petition at the end of June claiming the game "is a serious insult to...
Ubisoft's stock plummeted 12% in the past five days following the company's most recent earnings reports that revealed it had exceeded sales targets for its first financial quarter of the year. Yahoo! Finance reports that the Ubisoft stock fell 12.42% in the last five...
Japanese historian Yu Hirayama who claims that Yasuke was a Samurai has been revealed to be a former member of the Japanese Communist Party. Hirayama made his claim on X where he wrote, "It seems like there's a lot of talk about Yasuke, a black man who served Oda...
A Japanese political aide indicated that the backlash to Ubisoft's upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game could escalate into a "diplomatic incident." As first reported by Mark Kern aka Grummz on X, a Japanese political aide detailed the game and its false depiction...
A new report claims that Ubisoft is indeed including same sex romance options for the upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game. YouTuber JorRaptor reported on X that "Both Yasuke & Naoe have unique romances (so different character they can romance instead of the...
Japanese YouTuber Shohei Kondo explained why the Japanese are calling on Ubisoft to "immediately discontinue" their upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game. Thousands of Japanese players have signed a petition calling on Ubisoft to shut the game down and...
A report claims that Ubisoft's booth at Japan Expo for Assassin's Creed Shadows received sparse traffic throughout the weekend. X user rc_166 shared photos from the convention on July 12th and commented, "The other booths were crowded, but the Assassin's Creed Shadow...
Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed Shadows are being accused of using One Piece's Roronoa Zoro's katana as well as props purchased from Amazon as official artwork for the game. In a post to the game's official French account on X, a translation from DeepL reads, "Katana and...