Our student writer argues that the video game developers should issue an apology for skewing perceptions of the country.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the second best-selling game of 2025 in the US so far, behind only Monster Hunder Wilds.

Assassin's Creed Shadows' Japan should be incredible, but it is instead a frustrating, hollow map that vastly underachieves.

TL;DR: The Japanese government raised concerns about Assassin's Creed Shadows, citing disrespect to cultural heritage due to in-game actions like shrine destruction and violence. Ubisoft responded ...

“The team has already resolved the issue by re-uploading the correct data to the [worldwide] depot on Steam,” Brochu-Gagné ...

According to Circana, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Shadows has found success, despite the many issues the publisher has ...

Ubisoft’s pivotal new entry in the Assassin’s Creed series features two different playable characters in 16th century Japan. The Assassin’s Creed franchise is notionally about the millennia ...

Tsunoda Masumi, who played Naoe, revealed that watching temples could be desecrated in Assassin's Creed Shadows hurt her ...

So we paired ourselves with Japanese experts, internal and external partners, but also our Ubisoft Japanese studios. We’ve watched lots of movies as well. We’ve looked at museum databases,” says ...

Ubisoft told IGN the day-one patch is for all players and not Japan-specific, but it’s hard to see these changes in particular being anything but a response to the controversy surrounding the ...

The newest instalment in Ubisoft's blockbuster "Assassin's Creed" franchise received a "very positive" rating on Steam based on 751 user reviews, with 80% of them being positive, around four hours ...

While some reports have indicated that Prime Minister Ishiba hit out at the Feudal Japan-set game and its maker Ubisoft over concerns about its depictions of shrines, the truth is less controversial.