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Assassin’s Creed Shadows On Steam Deck Surprised Me More Than Getting Stabbed In The Neck
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…
25 Assassin’s Creed Shadows Tips To Check Out Before Playing
Assassin’s Creed Shadows, out now, is a very good entry in Ubisoft’s long-running franchise. But it’s also a big, complicated game with a lot of different mechanics, systems, features, and options. And Shadows doesn’t always do a great job of explaining how all of this stuff works. The Week In Games: What’s Coming Out Beyond…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Might Be Able To Do The Impossible And Satisfy All Fans
Earlier this month, I got to try out Assassin’s Creed Shadows via a livestreamed four-hour preview. Just a week before that preview, Ubisoft had announced that the next main entry in the open-world franchise about sneaky assassins and evil Templars had been delayed. Again. It’s clear that Ubisoft really needs a big win here and…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows preview: a few steps in the right direction
Things aren’t exactly going swimmingly at Ubisoft right now. The publisher had a rough 2024, with Star Wars Outlaws failing to meet sales expectations and word of XDefiant’s demise coming around six months after the tactical shooter debuted. Skull and Bones finally arrived too, but it was a bit of a damp squib. Amid rumors…
BioShock Creator Laments It Was Just A ‘Corridor,’ But Corridors Have Given Us Some Of The Best Games Ever
In a recent interview with Games Industry.biz, Ken Levine disparaged his most famous and popular game, BioShock, as “a very, very long corridor.” He uses this description pejoratively to distinguish the 2007 first-person mystery game from his current project, science fiction FPS Judas, a game he says is being made “very, very differently.” He wants,…