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?
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...
A Japanese pop song titled "Why Yasuke" mocks Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed Shadows for feature Yasuke as one of the game's main protagonists as well as taking liberties with Japanese history. The song, which was released on July 6th has already obtained over 912,000...
Japanese politician Satoshi Hamada recently signaled he might bring up Ubisoft and their upcoming game Assassin's Creed Shadows before the Japanese Diet, the country's legislative body, for altering the country's history, architecture, and more as well as potentially...
Ubisoft Japan issued a formal apology for using a Japanese reenactment group's banner in their Assassin's Creed Shadows game. In the middle of June, Ubisoft was accused of stealing the banner of the Sekigahara Teppo Corps. As noted by former World of Warcraft Team...
Street Fighter II and Monster Strike developer Yoshiki Okamoto addressed the backlash against Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed Shadows. The game has received significant backlash both in the West and Japan. Recently, a petition from Japanese gamers accuses the game of...
Japanese gamers have launched a petition to have Ubisoft cancel their upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game. As translated via Google's machine translation, the petition created by Shimizu Toru states, "Recently, lack of historical accuracy and cultural respect has...
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot stated that he's dismayed by alleged "malicious and personal online attacks" that have been directed at Ubisoft team members and partners. In an interview with Lucy O'Brien, Ubisoft's Director of Editorial Communications, that was published...
Video game developer Ubisoft has been accused of stealing the banner for a Japanese reenactment group for their upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game. In footage of the game, the reenactment group, the Sekigahara Teppo Corps' back flag is seen being carried by a...
A new report details that the Assassin's Creed subreddit banned an individual for disliking the game's combat and pointing out Ubisoft's DEI agenda. X account Reddit Lies reports that a person posted to the Assassin's Creed subreddit, "People are either going to play...
Japanese players torched Ubisoft after the game's Associate Narrative Director Brooke Davies confirmed the game is a "fiction." In a video uploaded to IGN Japan earlier this week, Davies confirmed the game was "a fiction." She said, "The story that we're telling is...
Assassin's Creed Shadows boss Marc-Alexis Côté admitted he was emotionally broken by Elon Musk after the owner of X criticized the game for its DEI stance. Musk reacted to Assassin's Creed Shadows featuring a potentially gay black Samurai as the main character...
Elon Musk weighed in on the possibility of Ubisoft's upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game featuring a gay black samurai. Musk weighed in while responding to X user Ian Miles Cheong. Cheong wrote, "Should Ubisoft delay Assassin’s Creed Shadows in response to...