Is Assassin’s Creed Ready for Its Next Era?

In another timeline, 2024 would’ve been more of a landmark year for Assassin’s Creed. That November, Ubisoft’s action-stealth series celebrated the respective 15- and 10-year anniversaries for Assassin’s Creed II and Assassin’s Creed Unity, two of the most important entries in the franchise. And November 15, 2024 was the originally intended release date of the Japan-set Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Instead, Shadows moved out of that original date and wound up delayed twice; it will finally arrive March 20, 2025. The game carries a lot of weight on its shoulders, as it may be Ubisoft’s last major release before the developer’s potential buyout with Tencent, and has had to deal with a pre-release leak that led Ubisoft warning players to avoid spoilers when possible. Suffice to say, things are different for this particular Creed, to say nothing of its place in a culture war that only wants to talk about it because one of its leads is based on a historical figure that Japanese media has had ... Read full article.