Ubisoft Canceled Civil War-Based Assassin’s Creed Over Controversy Concerns – Report

So, I heard about this game they unfortunately canceled, and it sounded *amazing*. You’d play as a Black man who escapes slavery and tries to build a new life, but then he gets pulled into the world of the Assassins. The really cool part? He goes *back* to the South to fight against groups like the Ku Klux Klan. It would have been a really powerful story, honestly.

Post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed canceled by Ubisoft after Yasuke backlash: Report

Game File reports that the canceled Assassin’s Creed game was planned to take place in post-Civil War America. Players would have controlled a Black protagonist who escaped slavery and joined the Assassin Brotherhood. The game’s story would have involved returning to the American South to fight against injustice and the growing threat of the Ku Klux Klan.

Baby Steps Punishes You In The Funniest Way If You Skip Too Many Cutscenes

Okay, so I heard about this crazy thing in Baby Steps. Apparently, if you skip a bunch of cutscenes, the game *rewards* you with this super long, 28-minute cutscene. It’s not exactly a reward for everyone though – it’s full of weird, self-aware jokes and the conversation just jumps around all over the place. Someone named Cuttyflame posted it on YouTube, and PC Gamer picked it up, so it’s making the rounds. It’s… something, that’s for sure!

Tone-deaf timing as Editor-in-Chief obsesses over review key while Funcom lets staff go

The comments on Gryparis’s post were almost entirely negative, so he defended it further. He claimed the critical comments largely came from PR professionals who secretly agreed with him but hadn’t publicly responded to gaming journalists, and also from people who had recently lost their jobs. Gryparis argued that PR managers should always respond to journalists requesting game keys and provide those keys, calling it a matter of professionalism and respect. He concluded by stating that less publicity leads to fewer sales.