Category: Video Games
Is Sweet Baby Inc. Connected to Assassin’s Creed Shadows?
You’ve probably heard the suggestion that Sweet Baby Inc. was involved in developing Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the new Ubisoft game that takes place in feudal Japan and has a black man and a woman as the lead characters. I mostly wrote this off because the evidence amounted to little more than t...
Read MoreUbisoft’s Stock Drops as Games Journalists Defend Assassins Creed Shadows
The video game industry is taking hit after hit lately. On May 15, 2024, Ubisoft released a trailer for Assassins Creed Shadows, the next in the long-running franchise centered on Japanese history and culture that will be released in November. The trailer was met with controversy and frustration ove...
Read MoreNext Call of Duty Game Coming Straight to Game Pass
Xbox’s desperation is showing. Last week, Microsoft’s senior public relations manager, Brian Hilderbrand, said the reason Xbox was closing some Bethesda studios and merging others was because Game Pass – the Xbox subscription service – was losing money on video game sales by allowing gamers ...
Read MoreEmail Reveals Activision’s DEI Mania
Someone at Activision wants the whole world to know how excruciating it must be to work there. The video game publisher of Call of Duty, some Crash Bandicoot games, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 send out emails to their employees, keeping them abreast of all their woke initiatives, policies, an...
Read MoreNaoe, the Female Lead of Assassins Creed Shadows, is a Stand-In as Well
The forced DEI in Assassins Creed Shadows doesn’t end with Yasuke. (Is “forced DEI” an oxymoron?) Yesterday, the trailer for Assassins Creed Shadows revealed that the two lead characters in the game – which is set in 1500s Japan and is about the samurai and shinobi (ninjas) – were a blac...
Read MoreAssassins Creed Shadows Trailer Brings Controversy Over Black Samurai
Today, Ubisoft released a trailer for Assassins Creed Shadows, the next game in the seventeen-year-old video game franchise. But instead of getting gamers excited, it got them laughing at the latest ridiculous instance of forced diversity, which involves a big historical reach. Then, it stopped bein...
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