Ubisoft wants to “return to leadership in the open-world” genre, and its CEO says the company is already “back on track” after some rough years

Ubisoft has historically been known for some of the best open-world games – and, depending on who you ask, for running that genre into the ground. Now, with the impending … Read More

The Assassin’s Creed Shadows open-world map is about the same size as Origin’s Egypt, but exists on a more realistic scale because Ubisoft “really wanted the mountains to feel like mountains”

Assassin’s Creed Shadows will have an open world roughly the size of Egypt from 2017’s Assassin’s Creed Origins. In an interview with IGN, creative director Jonathan Dumont offered a little … Read More

Lord of the Rings’ corporate owners know that you “have to respect” the books, but after Gollum, says that “not everything is going to hit it out of the park”

Embracer Group, the company that bought the entirety of Middle-Earth, has a strategy for licensed Lord of the Rings games but reckons “not everything is going to hit it out … Read More

Assassin’s Creed Shadows trailer unveils dual protagonists – one the first Black Samurai in Japanese history, the other a Shinobi

Assassin’s Creed Shadows‘ debut reveal trailer is here, and it shows off two main characters including the first Black Samurai in Japanese history, a Kansai-based map, and a November 15 release … Read More

The Strangers: Chapter 1 might “deal with the same premise” as the original, but its sequels shed light on some unanswered questions from the 2008 horror movie

Bringing back classic horror franchises seems to be all the rage nowadays, and the next filmmaker to do so with The Strangers: Chapter 1, a riff on the 2008 slasher … Read More