TL;DR: Japan's Prime Minister discussed Assassin's Creed Shadows in parliament due to concerns over its depiction of historical sites without permission, such as the Itatehyouzu Shrine.

These issues arise amid increased tourism in Japan post-pandemic. The release of Assassin's Creed Shadows has reached the Japanese government, which expressed deep concerns about its contents and ...

(UPDATE) TOKYO — A Japanese lawmaker on Wednesday slammed the latest video game in the hit "Assassin's Creed" series, complaining that a samurai character destroys the interior of a Shinto shrine.

Feudal Japan in the 16th century is depicted in ... and highly satisfying. Like the recent Assassin’s Creed titles, the game features RPG elements, allowing players to upgrade their characters ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows has a historical setting Assassin’s Creed Shadows is set during the late Sengoku period amid Japan’s unification under Oda Nobunaga. The game features a vast ...

Like past Assassin’s Creed games, Shadows serves up a clear premise: saving Japan from malevolent actors, this time through two controllable characters, Yasuke and Naoe, an African-born samurai ...

A day one patch for Assassin’s Creed Shadows will remove a controversial feature of the game, following backlash from a number of people including Japan’s prime minister. Speaking in ...

IGN has confirmed that Ubisoft has quietly released a day-one patch for Assassin’s Creed Shadows that makes a number of important changes, including to temples and shrines. Ubisoft provided IGN ...

A breathtaking trip through historical Japan, but Assassin’s Creed Shadows should have just doubled down on the whole assassin side of things. A series entry set in feudal Japan has long been at the ...