Assassin's Creed Shadows gets a prequel story lined up more than a month before its release, and it has a mysterious cover star.

The rating board for Japanese games, CERO, has forced Assassin's Creed Shadows to remove its dismemberment setting in the Japanese release.

The Japanese player base has been quite frustrated with Assassin's Creed Shadows, and a recent change is only set to sour things further.

The Japanese version of Assassin's Creed Shadows has been hit by censorship restrictions from the country's ratings board.

But the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows was always going to be ripe for a manga, and Ubisoft has announced that it’s cooking up an adaptation for launch in Japan. The comic will release globally at a later date, with Kodansha on publishing duties.

Assassin's Creed Shadows receives a new wave of backlash after a gameplay clip surfaces, but fans come to the game's defense this time.

The Japanese version of the upcoming game Assassin's Creed Shadows will be censored, as announced by Ubisoft, in order to comply with the regulations of the rating agency. Assassin's Creed Shadows is scheduled for release on March 20.

Assassin's Creed Shadows will get an official prequel story, fittingly told by a tie-in manga series. But rather than simply adapting the story of Ubisoft's upcoming feudal Japan stabathon, the series will instead be set some time prior.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows is getting a prequel manga but not until after the game comes out, Ubisoft has announced. The company revealed on X/Twitter that, while the prequel manga will arrive in Japan on the game's release date of March 20, it won't arrive elsewhere until "later."

Assassin’s Creed” fans have clamored for a chapter set in Japan for years. The concepts mesh well enough. Ubisoft’s assassins lurk in the shadows and try to kill without commotion while ninjas in popular culture have the same MO.