Assassin's Creed maker confirms leaked game footage is real

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Tom Richardson

BBC Newsbeat

Ubisoft A pistillate ninja quality stands successful beforehand of a blood-red inheritance with Japanese calligraphy characters daubed crossed it. Her eyes are conscionable disposable underneath her bluish hood and she holds a katana supra her head, acceptable to strike.

The makers of Assassin's Creed Shadows - the forthcoming introduction successful 1 of video gaming's biggest franchises - person confirmed footage leaked online is real.

Some players managed to get their hands connected the crippled - owed to beryllium released connected 20 March - up of its authoritative release.

Developer Ubisoft said gameplay videos shared online "did not correspond the last prime of the game".

In a connection posted online, the institution said it was "still moving connected patches" and urged fans not to stock spoilers.

Shadows volition beryllium the archetypal Assassin's Creed instalment acceptable successful Japan - thing fans person agelong been asking for.

The caller release, seen by galore arsenic a make-or-break rubric for the French gaming giant, has already been delayed twice.

Early authorised previews of the crippled person been positive, and its developers person insisted they pushed backmost its merchandise to polish definite features.

It was antecedently owed to travel retired for PC, PlayStation and Xbox connected 14 February.

Reports suggest that leaked footage came from carnal copies of the game, and it is imaginable that copies had been printed connected to discs to conscionable this date.

Modern games often person downloadable release-date updates to code immoderate issues that are discovered aft carnal versions person been produced.

Ubisoft Screenshot shows 2 characters successful the plot of a achromatic Japanese castle arsenic some follow conflict stances. One is simply a hulking warrior successful bulky samurai armour and a horned aureate helmet, holding a katana precocious and acceptable to strike. In beforehand of him, a pistillate ninja holds a throwing prima successful each hand, acceptable to motorboat them.

Set successful 16th Century Japan, Assassin's Creed Shadows features 2 playable protagonists.

They are Naoe – a pistillate ninja – and Yasuke – who's based connected a real-life fig often referred to arsenic "the African samurai".

Shadows' developers person defended the inclusion of Yasuke against critics who argued that a autochthonal Japanese quality would person been preferable.

Opponents person accused those complaining of racism, pointing retired that they person not taken contented with depictions of the quality successful different video crippled franchises.

Ubisoft is 1 of the biggest gaming companies successful the world, employing much than 18,000 radical successful aggregate planetary offices.

Last twelvemonth was seen arsenic a pugnacious 12 months for the publisher, aft a disappointing motorboat of its large release, Star Wars Outlaws.

Its different 2024 titles, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown and pirate-themed online crippled Skull & Bones, were besides reported to person fallen beneath the company's expectations.

Ubisoft besides discontinued online shooter XDefiant and closed 3 of its studios.

CEO Yves Guillemot has said Ubisoft is "taking decisive steps" to reshape the institution and "drive important outgo reductions".

It is thought to beryllium seeking a purchaser and has already made layoffs this year, including the closure of its bureau successful Leamington Spa, England.