Tag: assassins creed
Japanese Gamers Start Petition to Cancel Assassin’s Creed Shadows
It’s been a rocky road for Assassin’s Creed Shadows since the first trailer was released. The reveal that one of the game’s two leads – and the only male lead in a game series that, let’s not kid ourselves, is geared towards guys – was a black man, as opposed to Japanese, rubbed many th...
Read MoreUbisoft CEO Says Remakes Will Modernize Old Assassin’s Creed Games
Ubisoft isn’t done fiddling with Assassin’s Creed. In a recent interview with Ubisoft’s communications director, Lucy O’Brien, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot talked about the video game developer’s plans for one of their premier franchises. In addition to having “Assassin’s Creed games co...
Read MoreJapanese Reenactment Group Says Assassin’s Creed Shadows Stole Their Flag
The hits just keep on coming for Ubisoft and Assassin’s Creed Shadows, although it’s hard to feel bad for them because they keep doing it to themselves. A Japanese group called the Sekigahara Teppo Corps, or Sekigahara Rifle Corps, a group that reenacts the Battle of Sekigahara and other histori...
Read MoreJapanese Gamers Not Happy With Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Despite games journalists’ insistence that it’s only racist Americans who have a problem with Assassin’s Creed Shadows, evidence is piling up that Japanese gamers are not happy with the depiction of their culture either. During Monday’s Ubisoft Forward presentation, the company unveiled an e...
Read MoreIs the LGBT Representation in Assassin’s Creed Shadows Just a Rumor?
Is that LGBTETC rumor about Assassin’s Creed Shadows solid? I’m not sure, which is why I haven’t written about it yet, but since it appeared, the circumstances around it suggest it very well could be. This rumor started with a blog post about Assassin’s Creed Shadows on the Ubisoft website...
Read MoreIs 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...
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