Ubisoft has reportedly canceled an Assassin’s Creed game set during the Post American Civil War Reconstruction era. According to a report from Game File, the project was scrapped in 2024 after the company faced backlash over the Black samurai Yasuke in Assassin’s Creed Shadows and grew nervous about the political climate in the United States.
Japanese historian Yūichi Goza speculates that Yasuke was not a samurai as video game developer Ubisoft has claimed, but was rather just Oda Nobunaga's bodyguard and entertainer. In an interview with Japanese website The Sankei Shimbun with translation via DeepL,...
A new investigation into Ubisoft's marketing campaign for Star Wars Outlaws reveals the company buttered up YouTubers and influencers with trips to Disneyland and boat tours before giving them access to four hours of gameplay footage. German YouTuber Cyberpunk 20xx...
More Star Wars Outlaws clips have made their way online and they are being mocked for featuring strong female protagonist moments, terrible AI, and simply bad physics. Former World of Warcraft Team Lead Mark Kern aka Grummz shared a couple of clips featured in a...
German YouTube channel PietSmiet removed their Star Wars Outlaws preview video after admitting a third party agency had to approve their nearly one hour reaction video after spending four hours with the game. In a post to YouTube, PietSmiet shared that they removed...
Star Wars Outlaws Creative Director Julian Gerighty addressed criticisms of the game's main character Kay Vess and specifically criticism of her looks. Vess and Star Wars Outlaws have repeatedly been criticized for making the character ugly. X user Mangalawyer posted...
As Star Wars Outlaws gets closer to release, more clips have surfaced showing just how bad the game's combat, AI, and NPC functions are. X user Mangalawyer shared a clip that shows at least one NPC turning its back on the player character, Kay Vess, and running in a...
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...
In the wake of Ubisoft refusing to delay Star Wars Outlaws after massive complaints about graphics and AI detection, a new clip of the game has surfaced showing just how buggy and broken the game's AI detection and combat is. As shared to social media by X user...
Star Wars Outlaws Creative Director Julian Gerighty name-dropped Ghost of Tsushima as his biggest reference for the upcoming Star Wars game. Speaking with GamesRadar, Gerighty reacted to reporter Dustin Bailey's comments that he thought the game reminded him of Red...
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...
Moderators for the Assassin's Creed subreddit threatened to ban any players who post in the forum disputing developer Ubisoft's original claim that Yasuke is a "powerful African samurai of historical legend." Ubisoft originally claimed and still does claim that Yasuke...
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...