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You probably won’t be surprised to learn that Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a long game. Playing it for review these past few weeks, I clocked nearly 50 hours by primarily sticking to the critical path and stopping to do side stuff here and there. Even knowing roughly how long the story was going to be,…
Before we even knew what it was called, Assassin’s Creed Shadows had a target on its back. Culture warriors have been frothing over the casting of historical Black samurai Yasuke as one of the protagonists ever since the first screenshot leaked, prompting several ill-advised attempts by Ubisoft to defang the haters concerned about “historical accuracy.”…
Naoe and Yasuke take equal footing in Assassin’s Creed Shadows as dual protagonists that you can swap between whenever you want. The shinobi and the samurai require different armour pieces though, so this makes getting the best armour that much more time-consuming. Similar to its predecessors, Shadows also has a full-on loot system, including legendary…
One of the big highlights of Assassin’s Creed Shadows is its dual protagonists that split the series’ roots into two halves. Naoe is a shinobi who prefers the shadows over brute force, while Yasuke is a samurai, favouring close-quarters combat. Both characters have their own skills that make deciding how to approach quests and combat…
In one of Assassin’s Creed Shadows‘ earliest quests, you’ll need to find Imai Sokyu, a wealthy and influential merchant in Sakai. While you’d think this quest would warm you up to the new, more exploration-based quest objectives, you’re thrown in at the deep end. I’ll admit that it took me a good fifteen minutes running…
Ben Porter, director at the consultancy firm NewZoo, is giving a GDC talk this week that picks out some highlights from the firm’s annual look at the state of the games industry. PC Gamer was fortunate enough to get a sneak peek at his slides, and one of the takeaways is that PC gaming is…
An AMD spokesperson has claimed that Radeon gaming graphics cards now have 45% market share in Japan. This appears to be something of a surprise to the AMD rep, referred to as Mr. Sato, who said that the company, “isn’t used to selling graphics cards”. Er, righto…! According to Japanese website ASCII (via Google translate),…
HyperX has just announced a follow-up to its Cloud III headset, the HyperX Cloud III S Wireless. As well as coming with a few technical upgrades, it is giving users the opportunity to wear wings on the side of their heads. Those wings come in the form of removal magnetic earcup plates. Like those you…
It’s hard to believe, but the premiere metropolis maker this side of SimCity 4 has just hit a 10-year milestone—and in classic city builder fashion, Cities: Skylines 2 is honoring the occasion with traffic bug fixes, new buildings and radio stations, and major changes to homelessness. Notably, citizens will no longer become adults and then…
I regard GTA Online the same way I regard the Seven Years’ War: I only know it at a distance, it sounds like a living nightmare, and whenever I learn something new about it I’m sure glad I’m not there. Maybe I’m not the only one, because Rockstar is giving away $3,000,000 to any lapsed…