Assassin's Creed Shadows (PS5) News Articles
Thursday27th Nov 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Microtransactions Will Fund 'Chunkier' Updates Going Forward
No more expansions are planned
Ever since Assassin's Creed Origins, Ubisoft has pushed the series towards a live service model, opting to support each game over a long period of time with free updates and DLC. And to be fair, it's a model that's proven to be successful; Assassin's Creed Valhalla ended up being the franchise's most profitable...
Tuesday25th Nov 2025
Of course
Well, we're not sure anyone saw this crossover coming. Just confirmed by Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed Shadows' next collaboration will be with... Attack on Titan. The super popular manga and anime property will be featured in a new quest, which seems to task Naoe and Yasuke with stopping a titan transformation. No, we're not making this up...
Tuesday28th Oct 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Update 1.1.4 Brings Major Additions, Out Now on PS5
Full patch notes revealed
The next big update for Assassin's Creed Shadows will be deployed on the 28th October, and Ubisoft has just shared the full patch notes ahead of launch. Title Update 1.1.4 has some major additions, such as the introduction of Corrupted Castles and an option to remove many of the game's parkour-related limitations. The...
Tuesday16th Sep 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows' Claws of Awaji Expansion Has Arrived on PS5
Island life
Claws of Awaji, the first expansion for Assassin's Creed Shadows, is out now on PS5. The DLC promises to wrap up a few storylines that were left dangling by the end of the base game, while also whisking Naoe and Yasuke off to the titular island — a brand new location that's yours to explore. Ubisoft says that the expansion is roughly...
Thursday11th Sep 2025
Get your claws out
Assassin's Creed Shadows is getting another meaty update that prepares the game for its Claws of Awaji expansion. Patch 1.1.1 launches tomorrow — that's the 11th September, at the time of writing — while the aforementioned expansion drops next week, on the 16th September. The update comes packed with a bunch of welcome...
Monday18th Aug 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Is Europe's Best-Selling New Game of 2025
Until FC 26, at least
Much has been made of Assassin's Creed Shadows' commercial performance — mainly because Ubisoft has been reluctant to share actual sales numbers — but we know one thing for sure: the title's been a major hit in Europe. Often overlooked in a media industry that's very US-centric, Europe remains a colossal video game market...
Tuesday29th Jul 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Patch 1.0.7 Out Now on PS5, Adds New Game+, Increases Level Cap, More
Full patch notes revealed
Patch 1.0.7 for Assassin's Creed Shadows is available to download now on PS5, weighing in at just under 9GB. As detailed by the development team last week, this update adds a pretty extensive New Game+ mode, letting you replay the entire game with all of your levels, upgrades, equipment, and hideout unlocks intact. It...
Thursday24th Jul 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows' Big New Game+, Level Cap Update Arrives Next Week on PS5
Back into the Shadows
Ubisoft has confirmed that the next big update for Assassin's Creed Shadows will drop next week, on the 29th July. The introduction of an extensive-sounding New Game+ mode is the headline act here, allowing players to restart the game (having already finished it at least once) with all of their character progression and...
Tuesday22nd Jul 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Tops 5 Million Players, Performs 'In Line with Expectations'
Shadows broker
Assassin's Creed Shadows has now topped an impressive-sounding 5 million players, according to Ubisoft, having launched back in March. But of course, player count does not necessarily equal total sales, and so there'll always be arguments over how many copies Shadows has actually shifted. Unfortunately, Ubisoft simply doesn't seem to...
Tuesday24th Jun 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Update 1.0.6 Out Tomorrow on PS5, Full Patch Notes Revealed
New quests, ally, difficulty mode, and more
Originally teased late last week, Ubisoft has now fully unveiled the next big update it has for Assassin's Creed Shadows. It releases tomorrow (25th June) on PS5, and adds a new questline, ally to call upon, a nightmare difficulty mode, and a headgear toggle for free. On PS5, the patch is expected to be...
Friday20th Jun 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows' Next Huge Update Teased for 25th June
Free patch adds quests, characters, and more
Ubisoft has revealed its next big content update for Assassin's Creed Shadows will go live next week on 25th June 2025 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. This will be title update 1.0.6, and the French publisher teases it'll contain a new questline, fresh characters, and a batch of quality of life...
Tuesday27th May 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Update 1.0.5 Out Now on PS5, Full Patch Notes Revealed
Dead by Daylight quest and more
Ubisoft promised an Assassin's Creed Shadows update around the end of May, and now it's been fully detailed ahead of its launch on the 27th. Expected to weigh in at around 3.3GB on PS5, patch 1.0.5 includes the previously teased Dead by Daylight crossover quest, alongside parkour improvements, photo mode additions,...
Thursday22nd May 2025
Rumour Assassin's Creed Shadows Co-Op Mode Still In Development, First Expansion Targets September
Shadowy business
Assassin's Creed Shadows' long rumoured co-op mode is apparently still in the works, with the intention being to release it as part of the game's ongoing post-launch support. This is based on a fresh report from the ever-reliable Insider Gaming. Sources close to the open world title's development say that Shadows' team has been...
Thursday15th May 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Can't Stop the Ubisoft Rot of Star Wars Outlaws and XDefiant
Publisher reports big losses
Assassin's Creed Shadows may have ended up being a hit for Ubisoft, but the company's financial report for the previous fiscal year shows it wasn't nearly enough to make up for other losses. This was a largely expected outcome amongst many onlookers (ourselves included), but the figures are still rather damning. The...
Wednesday14th May 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Was Such a Hit, Ubisoft's Delaying Unannounced Games
Light from Shadows
Assassin's Creed Shadows has been a much needed hit for Ubisoft amongst its business-side woes, and its success has actually prompted the publisher to push back other projects. You may recall that Shadows itself was delayed well beyond its original November 2024 release date. It was first moved to February 2025, before being...
News Major Assassin's Creed Shadows Patch Dated, Teases Dead by Daylight Crossover Quest
Run and hide
Assassin's Creed Shadows' first crossover has been revealed — and it's with evergreen multiplayer title Dead by Daylight. All we have to go on at the time of writing is a social media teaser. "Step into The Fog. A new Dead by Daylight quest begins. Slip through the shadows. Survive the ordeal," it reads. The text is accompanied by a...
Tuesday6th May 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Patch 1.006 Out Now on PS5, Adds New Quest, Character Codex, More
Get the patch notes here
Last week, Ubisoft announced its plans for a major Assassin's Creed Shadows update in early May — and now we've got the details. Patch 1.006 is set to release tomorrow (that's the 6th May), weighing in at around 5GB on PS5. There are two big additions here. The first is the introduction of a new story quest featuring...
Rumour Six Years of Assassin's Creed RPGs, Remakes, Multiplayer Games Planned at Ubisoft
Not-so-hidden blades
We hope you like Assassin's Creed, because it sounds like you'll be seeing a lot more of it over the next few years. Ubisoft has apparently mapped out the next six years of the franchise, breaking it up between tentpole 'RPG' games, remakes of older titles, and multiplayer-focused projects. This is according to the...
Wednesday30th Apr 2025
First patch drops in May
Ubisoft has spilled the beans on Assassin's Creed Shadows' post-launch support, providing a roadmap for upcoming content. There's actually quite a lot to get through. First off, there are some pretty big updates in the works, which aim to bring more story-related stuff and fan-requested features to the release. In early...
Wednesday23rd Apr 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Update and DLC Roadmap Will Be Revealed Next Week
Shadowed
Ubisoft will lift the curtain on post-launch support for Assassin's Creed Shadows next week, the developer has confirmed. The open world adventure released just over a month ago at the time of writing, and outside of one large title update that dropped a couple of weeks back, the team's been biding its time. It's fair to assume, then,...
Wednesday16th Apr 2025
Also addresses PS5 crashes
A small update for Assassin's Creed Shadows will be deployed later today (the 16th April), Ubisoft has confirmed. Patch 1.0.3 is basically a hotfix for issues introduced via the title's previous update. In particular, the ability to sell multiple items at once is actually being removed, as it was discovered that selling...
Saturday12th Apr 2025
News PS5 Pro Version of Assassin's Creed Shadows Rivals Ultra High-End PCs, Says Ubisoft
"The ultimate console experience"
A new version of Assassin’s Creed Shadows is available to download now, which makes huge improvements to the excellent open worlder when played on a PS5 Pro. As part of an enormous and thoroughly informative
Tuesday8th Apr 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Patch 1.0.2 Out Now, Improves Horses, Item Selling, PS5 Pro's Graphics
And much more
Ubisoft has announced Assassin's Creed Shadows Update 1.0.2, which features a suite of improvements that players have been asking after since the game's launch last month. To be clear, this isn't Shadows' first major Title Update — it's just a 'smaller' (if you can really call it that) quality of life patch that's being released...
Tuesday1st Apr 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows a Big Sales Hit in US, Beaten Only By Monster Hunter Wilds
One of 2025's best-sellers
Ahead of the latest US sales charts, Circana (formerly NPD) analyst Mat Piscatella has given us some insight into how well Assassin's Creed Shadows performed, following its launch on the 20th March. According to Circana's data, Ubisoft's open world RPG immediately cemented itself amongst the best-selling games of 2025 so...
Monday31st Mar 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Dev 'Actively Looking' at Adding Harder Difficulty Mode
We hope it's lethal
Assassin's Creed Shadows provides multiple difficulty options for players, allowing them to cater the stealth action series to their liking. Expert Mode is the toughest, and under this designation, stealth is the series at its very best; still, sickos will always crave more challenge from their games, and we're glad to know...
Friday28th Mar 2025
News Animus Hub to Bridge Assassin's Creed Shadows to Modern Day Story
Desmond if you do, Desmond if you don't
We were initially bewildered by the Animus Hub when first booting up Assassin's Creed Shadows. The Hub chronologically links a bunch of the more recent games in the series, and if you have the associated games installed, it allows you to launch them. It seemed like standard Ubisoft launcher chicanery, but it...
Wednesday26th Mar 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Gets Positive Reviews In Japan as Bayonetta Director Speaks Out
Open world, characters, writing all praised
There's been much debate over how well Assassin's Creed Shadows would be received in Japan. After all, the game's set in the country's feudal 16th century, and its open world map attempts to recreate a vast swath of the island nation. In the months prior to release, there were reports that various...
News Assassin's Creed Shadows' Hideout Frame Rate Is a Bug, Set to Be Fixed in Major Update
Hiding in plain sight
Have you noticed that the frame rate takes a nosedive when you're visiting the hideout in Assassin's Creed Shadows? Well don't worry, because Ubisoft's apparently on the case. Even if you're playing on the game's dedicated performance mode, which grants a largely smooth 60 frames-per-second, the frame rate appears to get cut...
Tuesday25th Mar 2025
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Broke PS Store Sales Records for Ubisoft
Doubt the success crept up on company
With digital becoming an increasingly popular method for people to purchase games, PS Store sales records really matter. Ubisoft will be elated to learn that Assassin’s Creed Shadows set a new launch day record for the publisher on Sony’s storefront, then – according to data seen by VGC. We already...
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Devs Thank Fans for Its 'Incredibly Heartwarming' Reception
You love to see it
Assassin's Creed Shadows is out in the wild, and by all indications, it appears to be the win Ubisoft so desperately needs right now. Whether it can firm up the larger company remains to be seen, but the developers themselves have thanked fans for the "sheer amount of love and positivity we've received". In a thank you post from...
