Japan - Geeks + Gamers

Are Concord Losses Driving Up the PS5 Price?

AlexGherzo | Aug 28, 2024 | 3

Concord’s failure may have ramifications for gamers who aren’t even playing the game (which is almost all of them), and it already has in Japan, or so many are assuming. The first-person shooter has been a disaster for Sony, whose in-house studio, Firewalk Studios, developed Concord; according ...

Ubisoft Issues Apology to Japanese Gamers for Assassin’s Creed Shadows

AlexGherzo | Jul 24, 2024 | 3

The pressure over Assassin’s Creed Shadows has gotten to Ubisoft. Since the game’s trailer debuted, Ubisoft has been inundated with complaints from gamers, mostly those in Japan, over its disrespect for Japanese history and culture. The highest-profile issue is the use of Yasuke, a historical b...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Steals More Artifacts While Yasuke’s False History is Exposed

AlexGherzo | Jul 13, 2024 | 4

It keeps getting worse for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the next entry in Ubisoft’s video game series, which is set in feudal Japan. After they used Chinese architecture instead of Japanese and used the flag of a reenactment group without permission – not to mention the problems with Yasuke – r...

Japanese Politician and New Song Highlight Unease Over Assassin’s Creed Shadows

AlexGherzo | Jul 11, 2024 | 1

The people of Japan are really pissed about Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and I don’t just mean the gamers. We’ve seen backlash since the trailer was released, with plenty of Japanese comments online criticizing the game for its portrayal of Yasuke, a historical black man who was a vassal for Nobu...

Japanese Gamers Start Petition to Cancel Assassin’s Creed Shadows

AlexGherzo | Jul 1, 2024 | 1

It’s been a rocky road for Assassin’s Creed Shadows since the first trailer was released. The reveal that one of the game’s two leads – and the only male lead in a game series that, let’s not kid ourselves, is geared towards guys – was a black man, as opposed to Japanese, rubbed many th...

Japanese Reenactment Group Says Assassin’s Creed Shadows Stole Their Flag

AlexGherzo | Jun 18, 2024 | 1

The hits just keep on coming for Ubisoft and Assassin’s Creed Shadows, although it’s hard to feel bad for them because they keep doing it to themselves. A Japanese group called the Sekigahara Teppo Corps, or Sekigahara Rifle Corps, a group that reenacts the Battle of Sekigahara and other histori...