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Ubisoft Shareholder Confronts Boss About 'Woke' Assassin's Creed
18.7.2025
Shareholder meetings are usually pretty boring affairs, but in video games, you sometimes get players themselves showing up. They buy a piece of the company, and instead of complaining online like everyone else, they get to ask questions directly to the CEO’s face once a year. That’s what happened...
How To Defeat Akechi Mitsuhide And The Final Onryo In Assassin's Creed Shadows
3.6.2025
It’s finally come to this, the final members of the Shinbakufu are in your sights, and while this isn’t the end of Naoe and Yasuke’s journey—do not get me started on the endgame thing with Hanzo, we don’t have four hours to spend being angry—it’s certainly the bang the game deserves to go out...
The Week's Top Tips For Doom: The Dark Ages, Clair Obscur, Oblivion Remastered, And More
25.5.2025
Whether you need help locating some of Doom: The Dark Ages, want to make the most of Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, or you’d just like to learn some essential things that Oblivion Remastered doesn’t tell you, read on, we’ve got all this info and more.Read more
How To Assassinate The Fox In Assassin's Creed Shadows
21.5.2025
When you finally get to him, the Performer will speak in wistful poetic prose about his homeland, playing lovely shamisen music in a moonlit courtyard, with a gentle lilt in his voice. And no amount of beautiful shamisen playing or poetic turns of phrase changes the fact that the Fox Onryo hired...
How To Defeat The Wise In Assassin's Creed Shadows
20.5.2025
You know, Naoe and Yasuke have been killing a whole lot of people lately. Maybe this time, given this mission’s all about two diametrically opposed political factions trying to come to an agreement, they really should dial back down on the violent rhetoric, reach across the aisle, and let diplomacy...
Ubisoft Explains Why You Can't Kill Animals In Assassin's Creed Shadows
19.5.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a very good game that animal lovers can enjoy because there’s no way to harm a single creature in the game (except for people, of course). That’s a first for the franchise and I wanted to learn why Ubisoft went this route for its latest open-world adventure. Read more
How To Defeat The Ox In Assassin's Creed Shadows
19.5.2025
In one corner, you have a whole army full of impressionable young men looking for clarity and guidance in uncertain times where their religions, community leaders, and social structures have failed, and in the other, you have a big meaty lummox who can’t string two polysyllabic words together....
How To Defeat The Noble In Assassin’s Creed Shadows
16.5.2025
The murder train continues to roll on in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. This time, we have the sordid tale of the aristocrat Ukita Naoie who sends his kid out of town so he doesn’t have to be there to see him completely betray his countrymen to an army of murderous ninjas. He’s a poet; he plays Go; he’s...
How To Defeat The Mourner In Assassin’s Creed Shadows
15.5.2025
Same old goddamn story every time. An old crush comes calling saying it’s been a while, we should get lunch, catch up. Also, by the way, I know we haven’t been close in a real long time but it’s been a rough couple of months, will you murder several dozen people in honor of my dead brother...
How To Defeat The Naginata In Assassin’s Creed Shadows
1.5.2025
Naoe and Yasuke’s ongoing journey through the Wide Wide World of Bastards continues with The Naginata, a panicky, flopsweaty stooge who doesn’t even have the honor of fighting an old drunk one-on-one given the opportunity. Read more
Assassin’s Creed Shadows On Steam Deck Surprised Me More Than Getting Stabbed In The Neck
21.4.2025
When I heard Ubisoft claim that Assassin’s Creed Shadows would be Steam Deck verified at launch, I responded by saying “yeah right” with all the sass I could muster. I’ve tested a lot of games on Steam Deck here at Kotaku. I’ve seen games that should be slam dunks on the device fall short, and even...
How To Defeat The Fool In Assassin’s Creed Shadows
10.4.2025
While he didn’t do anything truly huge like, say, murder your father and leave the two of you for dead, Ise Sadaoki is an industrial grade dickhead from the second you lay eyes on him—and he earns extra dickpoints when you find out how dirty he did his brother Sadatame.Read more
Make Sure To Snag These Legendary Weapons In Assassin's Creed Shadows
31.3.2025
I used to be the sentimental type in video games. For instance, if a certain character offered you a weapon—a keepsake—I would hang on to that weapon for as long as possible. Something like Naoe’s starting katana would be the kind of thing that I’d stubbornly hold onto for far too long. Read more
Assassin's Creed Shadows Tips Galore And More Of The Week's Best Gaming Pointers
30.3.2025
Whether you want to know how to use Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ level scaling to your advantage, get rich quick in feudal Japan, or make your hideout as pretty as it can be, we’ve got the tips for you this week. In addition to that, we’ll also help you get started in Atomfall and tell you what...
Dominate The Battlefield As Yasuke With These Early Game Skills In Assassin’s Creed Shadows
28.3.2025
The prologue offers a glimpse of what it’s like to play the powerhouse that is Yasuke, and then the early game revolves around Naoe. It’s a taste, a teaser of what’s to come, what with his ability to smash through doors and gates, lift enemies off the ground, and slam opponents like paper dolls....
Master Naoe’s Stealthy Subterfuge With These Early Game Skills In Assassin’s Creed Shadows
28.3.2025
Sure, you could hack-and-slash your way through every enemy encounter in the game, but where’s the fun or style in rapidly tapping light attack and heavy attack hundreds of times? You can mix up the combat in Assassin’s Creed Shadows by implementing powerful skills, many of which you’ll unlock...
Get Rich Quick In Assassin’s Creed Shadows To Lord Over Feudal Japan
27.3.2025
When I first discovered the ornament vendor in Assassin’s Creed Shadows—the kindly woman selling decorations and customization options for the hideout—I had a feeling I’d end up spending tons of Mon decking out my dojo. Well, that assumption was correct. Many thousands of Mon later, I was rolling...
How To Defeat Oda Nobunaga In Assassin’s Creed Shadows
25.3.2025
Our girl Naoe’s slit a whole lotta throats to get to this point, but it’s finally time to slit the one throat that matters: Oda Nobunaga. Warlord. Bastard. Tea enthusiast, apparently. But also, he’s NEXT.Read more
How To Level Up Mad Fast In Assassin's Creed Shadows
24.3.2025
While it’s completely viable to cut down your foes solely via stealthy assassinations and brute-force katana strikes as either Naoe or Yasuke, leveling up and investing in additional abilities makes combat far more enticing. You can Spartan kick your enemies as Yasuke and lurch forward in...
Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ 'Projects' Aren’t Quite Battle Passes, But They’re Close
24.3.2025
You’d be entirely forgiven for thinking that the Projects screen in Assassin’s Creed Shadows is just a Battle Pass system. The gradual drip feed of rewards presented in a straight line evokes strong déjà vu of countless live service and free-to-play games like Fortnite or Genshin Impact....