After months of unending backlash to Assassin's Creed Shadows for having a Black lead, fans are getting fed up. A post on the series' subreddit shot to the top after one fan called out the "blatant racism" in the community.

The Japanese player base has been quite frustrated with Assassin's Creed Shadows, and a recent change is only set to sour things further.

Assassin's Creed Shadows simply calls a spade a spade. Syndicate isn't the only AC game that's tried to broaden our combat horizons. Ubisoft has been seeding the concept of a non-assassin Assassin's Creed hero for years now, permitting greater flexibility and choice with each new game.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows just can’t catch a break. Ubisoft’s big open-world samurai RPG isn’t the only one coming out in 2025, or even in March. In addition to Ghost of Tsushima’s sequel arriving later this year,

The rating board for Japanese games, CERO, has forced Assassin's Creed Shadows to remove its dismemberment setting in the Japanese release.

Ubisoft says it will make changes to the Japanese version of Assassin's Creed Shadows to accommodate requirements of that country's CERO videogame rating agency.

First, we shared our picks for the games we most want to see make their way to the Nintendo Switch 2. We also shared our impressions of Assassin’s Creed Shadows after some recent hands-on time with the game,

Ubisoft reveals that Assassin's Creed Shadows is being censored in Japan after CERO determined certain aspects of the game need to be adjusted.