Assassin’s Creed Valhalla fans aren’t pleased with the new Transmog system, Ubisoft says it’s listening
Assassin's Creed Valhalla finally has a Transmog option, but fans aren't happy with how it has been inplemented.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla finally has a Transmog option, but fans aren't happy with how it has been inplemented.
Ubisoft’s been on a bit of an upper management cull lately, what with the higher echelons of the company being dragged into the spotlight for allegedly gross behaviour behind the scenes. Hunters have been tranquilising the staff with pink slips and voluntary resignations before they could do even more damage to the brand, rounding them up and releasing them back into the wild amidst numerous claims of workplace harassment.
I’m close to 60 hours into Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and I’ loving every single minute of it, to a point where my enthusiasm for the franchise has been properly reinvigorated along the way.
If you were holding your breath waiting for Valiant Hearts 2, you might want to check your expectations at the door as Ubisoft toils away on pure time-sink sandboxes.
Last month, Ubisoft released the Story Creator mode for its already sprawling RPG Epic, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The mode allows creators to make and share their own stories. And they have! People have created quests with their own dialogue and own rewards. Those rewards include XP – so of course people have been using the mode to effectively cheat the system, making simple quests that dole out XP like a health clinic dishes out condoms.
In a spontaneous Twitter thread, Ubisoft accessibility project manager David Tisserand noted that the vast majority of players wished to keep subtitles on throughout the game. Gotta admit, I’m a big fan of subtitles in games myself. I wish I knew why, but there’s something nice about the extra bit of clarity they can provide to dialogue or when the …
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is one of my favourite games of the last year. It’s an already expansive game, with its core story and its voluminous DLC offering hundreds of hours of entertainment. Just yesterday, the game received the Torment of Hades DLC that sends “players to the Underworld, a vast world of endless gloom filled with the wandering dead, ruled by the sharp and cunning Hades.”
Video games are no stranger to get woke go broke phenomenon, with many a game having all kinds of soy sauce running through its veins and resulting in disastrous titles being released to an indifferent audience. Here’s a look at six video games in particular, whose wokeness earned them nothing but rave reviews and massive sales success.
CS: GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) is one of the most popular first-person shooter games, …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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