Assassin's Creed Shadows' gets a lot right, but it feels like Ubisoft is really floundering figuring out what to do with the series' modern-day story.

Thankfully, early reaction suggests the wait was worth it. In our Assassin's Creed Shadows review, we gave Ubisoft's latest a four-star score, saying the RPG has "more confidence, texture, and purpose than we've seen since Assassin's Creed pivoted into RPG territory."

Ubisoft (UBSFY) announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows reached 1 million players on release, but that might not be the win investors hoped for. That’s due to the extreme development costs that went into making the video game developer’s “AAAA ...

Ubisoft says the newest Assassin's Creed game has now surpassed three million players. Ubisoft is continuing to trumpet the success of Assassin's Creed Shadows, saying today that the game has now surpassed three million players a week after its release.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows saw over 1 million players on launch day, Ubisoft has announced. The game released on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S on March 20, and just before 4pm in Canada, Ubisoft took to social media to say it had crossed the 1 million player mark.

Shadows haven't made major changes to the game based on the poor reception of Star Wars: Outlaws. However, they may add a higher difficulty level in the future.

Ubisoft has established a new subsidiary, backed by the Chinese conglomerate Tencent, in a major strategy change.