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Assassin's Creed Valhalla Gets History Right Where It Matters
2.2.2021
If Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is indeed based on historical events like its intro screen says, it is based very loosely. Yet for all its simplification and misrepresentation of the Viking invasions of Britain, there’s one thing the game depicts really well: the idea that England’s history is one...
Assassin's Creed Valhalla Is Too Damn Long
28.1.2021
I finally got around to finishing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla this week. And while I had a great time with the game I also parted ways on a pretty sour note, because like its predecessor, it is just too damn long.Read more
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Players Figured Out How To (Legitimately) Score That Secret Bow
27.1.2021
Over the weekend, players of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla uncovered a secret bow (the laughably powerful Noden’s Arc) by...smacking a rock in the middle of a lake over and over again. The trick bounced around the web. Ubisoft’s Darby McDevitt even chimed in, describing it as a “clever brute force...
Wario Isn't Evil, He's Honest
19.1.2021
Mario was back for another adventure. But this time, it was personal. Hiroji Kiyotake, the director of 1992’s Game Boy hit Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins, wanted to pursue the idea that this time Mario wouldn’t be fighting to help or save someone else. Hence: Wario, Mario’s...
Sharpen Your Finest Axe, Because Assassin's Creed Valhalla is Now $35
19.1.2021
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Fans Finally Crack Made-Up Assassin's Creed Language
13.1.2021
Assassin’s Creed is a neverending series of mysteries and puzzles, the most enduring of which is the Isu language. While it was first introduced in 2009’s Assassin’s Creed II, it wasn’t until last year’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla provided substantial clues that fans were finally able to crack...
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Gets New Abilities But Only If You Disconnect Your Console From The Internet
6.1.2021
A few weeks back, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla players spotted a handful of new abilities in the game’s elaborate skill tree. Then, those abilities disappeared.Read more
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Hidden Ones Bureaus Hide A Great Series Callback
31.12.2020
Between One-Punch Man, baseball man, and multiple nods to popular fantasy franchises, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is basically the Metropolitan Museum of Easter Eggs. But the best surprise—or at least the one that’s sure to delight series fans the most—doesn’t show up until late in the game.Read more
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Drunk Glitch Keeps Making My Game Weirder
29.12.2020
Every time my viking hero Eivor dies in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, she returns to life drunk. This is a known bug that the developers appear primed to patch, but in trying to just bear with it last night, I somehow made it worse. Though, in this case, “worse” also means “better.” And now...
Zack Zwiezen's Top 10 Games Of 2020
19.12.2020
When I first sat down to put together this list, I wrote down two titles and then sat and thought for a while about what else I played. I think this year has thrown my whole mind into a strange funk, because I couldn’t even name 10 games I had played, let alone loved.Read more
It’s A Very Viking Christmas In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Slightly Buggy Yuletide Festival
17.12.2020
‘Tis the season for snowy weather, holiday parties, and drunk vikings. The latest update for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla adds a new holiday-themed event to the game and covers your settlement in snow. But while the new free update is a bit of festive fun, adding new armor and decorations, it’s also...
Ubisoft Waits A Month To Start Selling XP Booster For Assassin's Creed Valhalla
17.12.2020
What do you do when you launch an Assassin’s Creed game, include the option for your customers to pay $10 to level up faster, draw all kinds of negative reactions—many of them suspicious, wary—and then launch a new Assassin’s Creed two years later? Launch with that controversial paid booster again?...
Ubisoft's Game Subscription Service Is Now Available On Stadia
16.12.2020
Ubisoft+, the $15-a-month service that gives subscribers access to premium versions of games like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Immortals: Fenyx Rising, and Watch Dogs Legion, is now available as part of Google’s Stadia streaming platform. Finally an alternative to streaming Ubisoft games on Amazon...
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla 1.1 Update Addresses Game-Breaking Bugs
14.12.2020
Ubisoft is releasing a big update tomorrow for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla across all platforms, aiming to balance combat, improve performance, and generally smooth out a game that’s not without its fair share of bugs. But the biggest blessing comes in the form of several planned fixes for broken...
Running Around During Loading Screens Is An Important Part Of Assassin's Creed
13.12.2020
Loading screens often suck. But they can occasionally become more than just periods of time where you are forced to sit around and wait. In Assassin’s Creed, a tradition has formed of letting players run around in an endless void and it has (mostly) stuck around.Read more
So About That Batshit Ending To Assassin's Creed Valhalla
11.12.2020
Between the rideable wolves, anime references, and random American baseball players, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is full of surprises. But the biggest surprise, without question, comes at the end. Two of us (staff writer Ari Notis and weekend editor Zack Zweizen, who also reviewed the game...
Quick Resume Is Working For More Xbox Series X Games
7.12.2020
Microsoft is slowly starting to roll out more Quick Resume support on Xbox Series X|S again, after it took the supposedly signature next-gen feature offline for some games right before the console’s launch last month. This is according to Xbox director of program management Jason Ronald.Read more
How To Make Short Work Of Any Enemy In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
4.12.2020
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla isn’t a difficult game. If you venture at all off the beaten path, you’ll quickly accrue enough experience and gain enough Power levels to become an unstoppable Viking tank. Still, some boss fights—and other high-level enemies, like zealots—can be a pain. That is, unless...