Rockstar Games employs a unique marketing strategy centered on silence and anticipation, contrasting with the industry's typical over-promotion. They generate immense hype through minimal ...

A California nut admitted Tuesday to trying to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh — showing up to the conservative jurist’s home with a knife, zip ties, a Glock and hammer. Nicholas ...

In 2012, Assassin’s Creed 3 director Alex Hutchinson called out people on the internet for suggesting the most “boring” future settings for the series. “The three most wanted [settings for ...

Assassin's Creed Shadows is a game with pretty extreme expectations. It's the first mainline series entry since 2020's AC Valhalla, the first AC game built exclusively for current-gen consoles ...

The stories of vengeance in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which follows an African-born samurai and a young shinobi, are less compelling than its vibrant world. By Yussef Cole Open-world games tend ...

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 ...

It’s wild that it took almost 20 years and dozens of games for the biggest stealth action series around to finally bend towards feudal Japan. Assassin's Creed Shadows makes the most of that ...

Jeffrey Parkin (he/him) has been writing video game guides for Polygon for almost seven years. He has learned to love just about every genre of game that exists. “Way of the Blacksmith” is an ...

The Assassin’s Creed series tells the ongoing fight between the Templars and the Assassins. The former is an organization trying to usher in the New World Order by seizing political power, while ...

You’d be forgiven for thinking Yasuke is the starting character in the early moments of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The opening cutscene follows his introduction to Oda Nobunaga; then time skips ...

Assassin's Creed Shadows, out Thursday, is a good Assassin's Creed game. But "good" may not be good enough to save one of the industry's biggest companies. Ubisoft has since laid off hundreds of ...

“It is natural to have respect for the culture and religion of a country, and it is important to send out the message that we will not tolerate any acts that do not respect the culture and relig ...