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'We Had to Stop Focusing on Those Who Hated Us': Ubisoft Says Yasuke Backlash Directly Led to Assassin's Creed Shadows Delay

November 7, 2025
Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has discussed last year’s intense backlash to Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and said the unexpected conversation shift “from gameplay to ideology” led directly to its high-profile delay. Speaking during a recent event at Paris Games Week, as reported by GameFile, Guillemot screened a short internal video Ubisoft had created to narrate its response to the backlash…
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Global Release Times and PC Specs Confirmed

November 6, 2025
With Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 just around the corner, Activision has laid out exactly when players will be able to jump into the action, and has confirmed everything players need to know about the official PC system requirements and pre-load times. While pre-load goes live at the same time across all platforms on November 10 — 9am PT (scroll down to see when that’ll be in your part of the…
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Wreckreation Review

November 6, 2025
It’s been 6,496 days since the original release of Burnout Paradise, not that I’m counting. With the Burnout series clearly consigned to the same storage cupboard EA has been hiding the corpses of Westwood, Black Box, Pandemic, and all the other studios it shut down over…
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'It Never Quite Came Together, and It Was Never Finished' - Rockstar Co-Founder Dan Houser Discusses Canceled GTA 5 Single-Player Trevor DLC for First Time

November 5, 2025
Grand Theft Auto fans have known for some time that Rockstar Games worked on a single-player DLC for GTA 5 that would have seen Trevor assume the role of a secret agent. Last year, voice actor Steven Ogg said Rockstar originally planned to make a story expansion focused on his character, Trevor, with it thought to have fallen by the wayside as the developer focused on the cash cow that was GTA…
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U.S. Patent Office Boss Orders Reexamination of Nintendo's Controversial 'Summon Character and Let It Fight' Pokémon Patent, Which IP Expert Claims 'Further Undermines Credibility' of Its Case Against Palworld

November 5, 2025
The director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office has ordered a reexamination of Nintendo’s controversial ‘summon character and let it fight’ Pokémon patent after it was heavily criticized by IP lawyers. In September, IP lawyers criticized the U.S. patent…
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Xbox Console Exclusive Stalker 2 Is Set to Leave Game Pass in November and Some Subscribers Do Not Like That One Bit

November 4, 2025
Microsoft has confirmed the next batch of games set to leave Xbox Game Pass, and one in particular has caused a degree of frustration with subscribers: Stalker 2. GSC Game World’s Stalker 2 launched as an Xbox console exclusive last year alongside backing from Microsoft. While it is not an Xbox Game Studios-published video game, Microsoft played a key role in its marketing ahead of its…
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