Simon Lemay-Comtois and Jonathan Dumont on evolving Assassin's Creed Syndicate's dual heroes for Assassin's Creed Shadows, and making them unique

Ubisoft Quebec seems poised to be the first to pull together Assassin's Creed's disparate eras, but we've been here before and it's routinely not worked out.

In Assassin's Creed 2, I can still remember how satisfying it was to see the Villa Auditore and the town of Monteriggioni improve over the course of several renovations. Nestled in Tuscany, the town's buildings are initially boarded up,

Indeed, the most recent RPG-leaning Assassin's Creed games — Origins, Odyssey, and especially Valhalla — have really strayed from the series' once trademark parkour systems, much to the despair of some fans who have been playing since the days of Ezio.

While a game getting delayed multiple times is never a good sign, let's hope it works out for Ubisoft's sake. The embattled publisher has had a rough 2024, with its tentpole game, Star Wars Outlaws, failing to meet sales expectations. It was even outpaced at retail by a considerably older Star Wars game (Star Wars Jedi: Survivor).

The whole Assassin's Creed Shadows’s official art book was leaked on a hentai site before being quietly removed.

Assassin's Creed Shadows details have leaked in the strangest way possible, with pages from the game's art book uploaded to a site specialising in adult content

Assassin’s Creed has a special place in my heart. I grew up playing these games, and a lot of my love of video games can be directly attributed to the Ezio trilogy, as I’ve written before. It might be hard to glean that from my writing,