Tag: Yasuke

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Drops Early Access

Assassin’s Creed Shadows can’t seem to smooth out its road to release. The game has been mired in controversy since its initial trailer, which revealed that the male playable character would be Yasuke, a historical figure that Ubisoft is portraying as a samurai, the accuracy of which is dubious...

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 ...

Ubisoft Backs Off Woke Stance Amid Assassin’s Creed Shadows Delay and Poor Star Wars Outlaws Sales

Ubisoft appears to be in a lot of trouble, with the video game studio taking hits from all sides and seemingly admitting defeat. And I don’t just mean their game sales – they’re walking away from their woke agenda, at least publicly. The first domino to fall was the reveal that Star Wars Outla...

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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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...