Ubisoft has just unveiled Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the latest installment in its globe-trotting, time-traveling megaton stealth RPG series. Taking place in 16th-century Japan, the open world title will drop players into the shoes of two new protagonists, the shinobi Naoe and the actual historical figure Yasuke.
The games industry doesn’t seem ready to reckon with the fact that not all of its consumers have internet connections. It’s bad enough that increasingly huge games have made it more work than it’s worth to set your console or PC to download a game that may or may not take the entirety of an evening to finish. In many parts of the world, internet connections aren’t necessarily stable or capable of constant service.