Shadows is Ubisoft's most successful game in the franchise by a Japanese country mile, ranking high in both sales and player counts.

Worldwide, Shadows has reached more than three million players so far. Shadows had the second-highest day-one sales revenue for any Assassin's Creed game, only trailing Valhalla. Shadows did beat Valhalla by one measurement, though, setting a record for the most day-one digital revenue on the PlayStation Store for the Assassin's Creed franchise.

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.

Yes, Shadows revives the iconic assassination simulator of 2007. But the amenities of modern gaming — lifelike graphics, semi-permanent gore, an abundance of murder-ready gizmos — have twisted the game into something else too: a slasher movie in which you’re the killer.

French gaming company Ubisoft announced the establishment of a subsidiary focused on developing core gaming titles in partnership with Chinese game publisher Tencent. The deal, valued at around 1.16 billion euros ($1.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is an open-world RPG through and through, complete with stats to level up and progressively more powerful gear to find. As you might expect, it employs