Assassin’s Creed Valhalla includes a hidden nod to League of Legends. Jared Rosen, narrative lead for skins and thematic development at developer Riot Games shared a clip from Ubisoft’s latest, highlighting the reference to one of LoL’s many champions (via PCGamesN (opens in new tab)). The clip shows Eivor hunting …
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A Ubisoft developer has discussed how they optimized the latest Assassin’s Creed title for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. In a new interview, courtesy of Xbox Wire (opens in new tab), Ubisoft game director Eric Baptizat talked about the development of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and how the …
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A new video gives a pretty extensive graphics comparison between Assassin’s Creed Valhalla running on the PS5 and Xbox Series X. You can see the nine-minute video in full just below, which starts right in the prologue of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla with a young Eivor. The most obvious thing to …
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The modern-day aspects of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla are even closer to our reality than we thought, with the latest in the series referencing COVID. Read on, but be warned of minor spoilers. Still here? A letter buried within the game reveals the current-day Valhalla protagonist (that is, the one who’s …
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla lore confirms that Kassandra is, in fact, the canon choice in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, which released in 2018, saw the introduction of the optional character choice where you were able to choose between playing a male or female protagonist, Alexios and Kassandra. It’s been …
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Ubisoft has confirmed that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will have a photo mode at launch, and that it’ll continually be improved over time. The studio took to Twitter to reveal the photo mode with a handful of picturesque captures, where you can see some of the filters and other features included. …
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Spare a thought for the developers responsible for building the world of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (opens in new tab). Instead of research trips to Egypt or the sunny beaches of Greece, the team behind the latest installment found themselves at an Anglo Saxon museum in the UK’s East Anglia. “The …
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (opens in new tab) is getting rid of traditional side quests, and replacing them with “World Events”, Ubisoft has confirmed. Speaking to GameSpot (opens in new tab) ahead of yesterday’s gameplay reveal (opens in new tab) at Ubisoft Forward, Valhalla’s narrative director Darby McDevitt confirmed that sidequests are …
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The creative director of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (opens in new tab) is stepping down from the project. Ashraf Ismail cited a need to “properly deal with personal issues” in the announcement on his personal Twitter account. He added that he does not wish the efforts of other developers to be …
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A Pokemon trainer has been reunited with their Pokemon Stadium team from 20 years ago, thanks to the efforts of a stranger who happened to buy their old cartridge. The unlikely story started as so many good (and bad) things do on the internet these days: with some Twitter randos …
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