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Ubisoft Cancels Controversial Assassin's Creed Game Amid Backlash

10/9/2025

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Ubisoft has canceled a new Assassin's Creed game set in post-Civil War America, focusing on the Reconstruction era.
Players would have controlled a formerly enslaved Black man fighting against the Ku Klux Klan.
The cancellation resulted from backlash against another character, Yasuke, in Assassin's Creed Shadows, and concerns over the U.S. political climate.
Many within Ubisoft expressed frustration, viewing the decision as a capitulation to controversy.
Ubisoft has not commented on the cancellation.

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Ubisoft has canceled a new Assassin's Creed game set in post-Civil War America, focusing on the Reconstruction era.
Players would have controlled a formerly enslaved Black man fighting against the Ku Klux Klan.
The cancellation resulted from backlash against another character, Yasuke, in Assassin's Creed Shadows, and concerns over the U.S. political climate.
Many within Ubisoft expressed frustration, viewing the decision as a capitulation to controversy.
Ubisoft has not commented on the cancellation.