Assassin’s Creed Shadows Crosses 1 Million Players on Launch Day, Ubisoft Says

There’s huge stress on Murderer’s Creed Shadows to do properly for Ubisoft globally after a variety of delays and the gross sales failure of final yr’s Star Wars Outlaws. Certainly, Ubisoft has suffered a variety of high-profile flops, layoffs, studio closures, and sport cancellations within the run as much as Murderer’s Creed Shadows’ launch.

Murderer’s Creed Shadows has additionally endured a variety of controversies, not least in Japan. Yesterday, IGN confirmed that Ubisoft had quietly launched a day-one patch for Assassin’s Creed Shadows that made a variety of vital modifications seemingly in response to concern from some Japanese politicians about in-game temples and shrines.

In a exceptional alternate this week, Japanese politician and member of the Home of Councillors of Japan, Hiroyuki Kada, raised the difficulty of Assassin’s Creed Shadows in an official authorities assembly, and Shigeru Ishiba, the Prime Minister of Japan, responded.

On Steam not less than, Murderer’s Creed Shadows goes down very properly with gamers. It has a ‘very constructive’ consumer evaluate ranking, with 82% of the close to 4,000 consumer critiques marked as constructive. IGN’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows evaluate returned an 8/10. We stated: “By sharpening the perimeters of its current techniques, Assassin’s Creed Shadows creates the most effective variations of the open-world model it’s been honing for the final decade.”

Ubisoft’s founding Guillemot household and largest shareholder have reportedly been exploring talks with Chinese language mega-corp Tencent and different buyers on a buyout deal that will allow them to protect management.

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