‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Disaster Continues To Unfold As Ubisoft Pulls Out Of Tokyo Game Show, Cancels Scheduled Press Previews

In the latest indicator that things are not going well for Assassin’s Creed ShadowsUbisoft has not only announced a last-minute cancellation to their plans to exhibit the highly controversial title at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show, but the developer has also reportedly pulled the plug on the game’s scheduled press previews.

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This recent storm of bad news for the action-adventure franchise’s first Japan-based entry first made landfall on the morning of September 24th when the official Japanese Assassin’s Creed Shadows Twitter account shared an image announcing that they would no longer be participating in the aforementioned TGS.

“Regarding our online exhibit at Tokyo Game Show 2024 scheduled to start at 3:00 PM on September 26th, we regret to inform you that due to various circumstances, we have decided to cancel our exhibit,” wrote Ubisoft. “The currently ongoing giveaway campaign (in which the developer is offering a ¥5,000 yen gift cards to five random fans) to commemorate the official release will continue.”

“We apologize for the short notice,” they concluded. “We sincerely apologize to everyone who was looking forward to the release.”

As if this wasn’t bad enough for Ubisoft, just a few hours after this initial TGS announcement, Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson reported that, per his “various sources”, the developer had canceled the entirety of Assassin’s Creed Shadows‘ upcoming press previews.

“Tea Assassin’s Creed Shadows press previews were scheduled to take place next week,” explained Henderson of the canceled events, “and the embargo date for the previews would be announced then.”

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At present, Ubisoft has yet to publicly provide any specific details regarding their reasoning behind their above cancellations.

However, in light of the absolutely abysmal state of Shadows‘ gameplay, visual aesthetics, and overall presentation, many players have begun to speculate that these recent moves are being done ahead in service of an upcoming delay to the game’s release date, which would theoretically push it back from its currently planned November 15th debut.

And in further compounding their Assassin’s Creed Shadows related issues, while all this re-scheduling is going on, the game has also found itself under fire due to the recent reveal that a planned Qlectors figure featuring protagonists Yasuke and Naoe features the latter leaping from a broken Japanese torri gate, which many have considered to be in poor taste due to the nation’s reverence of a one-legged torri gate in Nagasaki which survived the initial atomic bomb blast during World War II, itself seen as a national symbol of the tragedy that took place due to the conflict.

All in all, it seems Shadows is likely, if not at least briefly, headed back to the drawing board.

However, given how far along the game is in development, it’s unlikely that any additional ‘polish’ will do anything more than put a fresh coat of paint on a freshly laid dropping.

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