Local studio In Praise of Shadows has added a curved wooden salon bar to the BioRio cinema in Hornstull, Stockholm, which it refurbished to create a "warm and inviting atmosphere". The studio was ...

Feudal Japan games like Assassin's Creed Shadows and Ghost of Yotei offer innovative mechanics. Both games share revenge storylines, with new weapons in Ghost of Yotei resembling those in Assassin ...

Getting more Scouts in Assassin's Creed Shadows will help you out in the long run, especially when you know everything Scouts can be used for like finding tough objectives on the map. The more the ...

Mibuno Castle in Assassin's Creed Shadows is in Iga and though it's filled with enemies, there's a legendary loot chest just waiting to be found within. Like most other Assassin's Creed Shadows ...

All journeys in Shadows are made longer by the game’s ambitious but flawed fealty to matching real terrain as closely as possible. It is nearly impossible to take shortcuts — hills are too ...

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As its winking title suggests, director Trương Minh Quý’s “Việt and Nam” is constructed out of neat symmetries and thorny juxtapositions. Set in Vietnam in 2001 and focused, ostensibly ...

There aren't many Assassin's Creed Shadows romance options for Naoe and Yasuke to pursue, but there's still plenty of time for love between assassinations. From rebel saboteur Gennojo to the noble ...

By T Bone Burnett In his new book, David Szalay offers unvarnished scenes from a lonely, rags-to-riches life. By Dwight Garner “Only men understand the secret fears that go with the territory ...

Armor is your primary means of staying safe (and stylish!) in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. You’ll expand both Naoe’s and Yasuke’s wardrobes as you play, through a mix of natural main story ...

In “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” Omar El Akkad criticizes the Western narratives that make suffering in Gaza an abstraction In her memoir, “The 10,” E.A. Hanks ...