After the official reveal of Assassin’s Creed Shadows yesterday, some players noticed on the game’s PSN page that an internet connection would be required to play this single player game. In response, Ubisoft has put out a new statement clarifying that you’ll only need an internet connection to download the game and that the rest of it can be played wholly offline.
The developers of Drag Her, the drag queen fighting game, has announced they are ending development and disbanding the team. In the announcement, the team wrote that despite a successful Kickstarter and solid fan support, they couldn’t secure enough funding to bring their vision of Drag Her to life. But not all is totally lost. The developers plan on releasing Drag Her in its current state on Steam for free May 16th.
Buried within Ubisoft’s earnings report is the news that The Division Heartland has been cancelled. The game was a free-to-play spinoff of The Division series that was rumored to be Ubisoft’s entry to the battle royale space. According to the earnings report that game has been scrapped with the company shifting its focus on developing XDefiant a game that’s launching its preseason...checks notes next week. And you thought Xbox wasn’t promoting Hellblade enough.
Despite the upsetting news that Xbox is shutting down Hi-Fi Rush studio, Tango Gameworks, there is still some time before the lights go out for good. The developers at Tango are using that time to finish some last minute projects including working with Limited Run Games to release a physical version of the game and one final patch that’s scheduled for today.
Update: And here’s the final patch notes.
Ubisoft has announced that the project formerly titled Assassin’s Creed Red now has an official name: Assassin’s Creed Shadows. But wait, there’s more. In addition to announcing the name change, Ubisoft has also announced that it’ll be sharing the game’s first official reveal trailer this week, Wednesday May 15th at 12 PM ET.
