Ubisoft warn staff not to celebrate Assassin's Creed Shadows launch as part of “anti-harassment plan”

To avoid harassment, staff at Assassin's Creed Shadows studio Ubisoft Quebec have been "advised" not to celebrate or otherwise post on social media about the game's launch this week, as reported by French outlet BFM TV and spotted by Kotaku. This follows months of online anger directed at the open world game, much of it from charming sods with handles like 'Da Phrenology Gamer' doing everything they can to avoid actually playing videogames, presumably before logging off for dinner and complaining that they don't want to eat any more woke broccoli, mum. Can't-hang-viceroy Elon Musk even got involved at one point, commenting "DEI kills art" on a tweet about the game (as opposed to, you know, cutting education funding). Read more

Mar 18, 2025 - 10:54

Ubisoft warn staff not to celebrate Assassin's Creed Shadows launch as part of “anti-harassment plan”

To avoid harassment, staff at Assassin's Creed Shadows studio Ubisoft Quebec have been "advised" not to celebrate or otherwise post on social media about the game's launch this week, as reported by French outlet BFM TV and spotted by Kotaku.

This follows months of online anger directed at the open world game, much of it from charming sods with handles like 'Da Phrenology Gamer' doing everything they can to avoid actually playing videogames, presumably before logging off for dinner and complaining that they don't want to eat any more woke broccoli, mum. Can't-hang-viceroy Elon Musk even got involved at one point, commenting "DEI kills art" on a tweet about the game (as opposed to, you know, cutting education funding).