Tag: Japan

New Information Contextualizes Assassin’s Creed Shadows Delay, Including Abysmal Pre-Sales Figures

More information on the Assassin’s Creed Shadows delay is coming in from various sources, and it doesn’t bode well for this game, or for Ubisoft. The first round of info comes from Endymion, who spoke with sources he says he verified and trusts. The most glaring news concerns the pre-sales for ...

Japanese Expert Cited to Defend Assassin’s Creed Shadows is Former Sweet Baby Inc. Employee

This one goes from annoying to funny by the end. Sweet Baby Inc. has mostly been out of the headlines lately, which is a smart move; their best bet is to lie low for a while and hope the storm they helped create blows over soon. But they’ve crept back into the news through the …

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Nintendo Sues Palworld Developer Pocketpair

Remember Palworld, the indie video game from Japanese developer Pocketpair that took the gaming world by storm when it debuted earlier this year? It’s the action survival game that took clear inspiration from Pokémon in which the player is dropped into an open-world environment and tasked with c...

Are Concord Losses Driving Up the PS5 Price?

Concord’s failure may have ramifications for gamers who aren’t even playing the game (which is almost all of them), and it already has in Japan, or so many are assuming. The first-person shooter has been a disaster for Sony, whose in-house studio, Firewalk Studios, developed Concord; according ...

Ubisoft Issues Apology to Japanese Gamers for Assassin’s Creed Shadows

The pressure over Assassin’s Creed Shadows has gotten to Ubisoft. Since the game’s trailer debuted, Ubisoft has been inundated with complaints from gamers, mostly those in Japan, over its disrespect for Japanese history and culture. The highest-profile issue is the use of Yasuke, a historical b...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Steals More Artifacts While Yasuke’s False History is Exposed

It keeps getting worse for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the next entry in Ubisoft’s video game series, which is set in feudal Japan. After they used Chinese architecture instead of Japanese and used the flag of a reenactment group without permission – not to mention the problems with Yasuke – r...