There may have been a time, a week or two ago, when I was excited to score my first Precursor Reflex Bow in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Thirty-seven Precursor Reflex Bows later? Not so much.

Remember when Assassin's Creed was serious?

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s newest downloadable content, The Fate of Atlantis, focuses on the strange and magical. From ancient gods to hidden paradise worlds that may or may not be holographic prisons, Fate of Atlantis embraces the more far-out science fiction elements of the franchise.

The first episode is a web of scheming alien gods and improv roleplaying that’s finally taking the weirdness of older Assassin’s Creed games and cranking it up to a level it should have reached ages ago.

A new in-game ad for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s second big expansion wouldn’t be so annoying if it didn’t appear repeatedly every time I paused checked my map or tried to access my inventory. While we’ve found a fix, the whole thing feels like marketing run amok.

Let's just take a minute to stop and appreciate all the weird stuff Assassin's Creed does with their post-game content these days.

Five months after the release of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, a legendary sword first teased during an E3 demo is now finally in the game.

As I battled the final boss in the new and final chapter of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s first big episodic expansion, a chapter that happens to be all about parenting, I heard my two-year-old daughter cry out for me and her mum. It was half past midnight. She was down the hallway, three rooms away, wide awake and very upset. I paused the fight and rushed to the baby monitor to try and parse her cries.

Writing well rounded characters can be difficult, but once in a while a game will rise to the challenge and produce some outstanding individuals. For international women’s day let’s take a look at some of the best female characters in video games.

The surprise at the end of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s second downloadable episode still happens, but the developers have tweaked the path to getting there. As best we can tell, Ubisoft has trimmed one cutscene and changed two dialogue choices.

As promised, Ubisoft has begun making changes to a recent expansion to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey that upset many players and led to an apology from the developers.

The first of those changes appears to be in the process of rolling out, as PS4 players can now see a new name for the trophy that they earn when the chapter concludes.

Today on Highlight Reel we have a bunch of impressive Apex Legends kills, The Division 2 clips, twisted video game physics, and much more!

Hi, Luke Plunkett here, your resident sea shanty enthusiast. And I’d like you to know that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, a game featuring mythical creatures, immortal leaps and the most perfect human being ever created (not you, Alexios), takes its sea shanties of all things very seriously.

Nominees for the first ever gaming category in the annual GLAAD awards were announced today, honouring The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset, Guild Wars 2: Arena of Fire, Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, The Sims Mobile and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey for their representation of LGBTQ characters.

The nomination of that last game included an additional explanatory note addressing a controversial required romance in the most recent downloadable expansion.

A day after apologizing for surprising Assassin’s Creed Odyssey players with a mandatory in-game relationship that seemed to contradict the game’s pre-release promise to let players define their character’s own sexuality, the game’s creative director offered a fuller apology and explanation of what his team was trying to accomplish and what they got wrong.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s first expansion, Legacy of the First Blade, started strong, introducing players to the first Assassin and offering a self-aware take on the series’ mythos.

The second episode in Legacy of the First Blade, Shadow Heritage, aims to continue the experience. It provides a strong villain and exciting ship combat. But it is ultimately most notable for forcing the player’s hand in a major way — one that I found disappointing.

Every time I play Ubisoft’s gargantuan Assassin’s Creed Odyssey I’m astounded at how much of it I have left. I’m also left startled by how different an experience I seem to have had from many other players.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has a weird approach to way its enemies level. Now there’s an option in the game to change this.

You don’t need to know the backstory of Shoeless Ogarneos, a mercenary who may try to kill you in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, but the word in the game is that this ancient Greek killer-for-hire only wore bandages on his feet and “liked the red tint they had at the end of each day.”

In 2018, I enjoyed playing some excellent games from, uh, 2017. It’s too bad that 2017 Maddy didn’t play Assassin’s Creed: Origins and Hollow Knight when they came out; if she had, they would have been on her 2017 best-of list. Luckily for current-day me, 2018 also had several great hits. Here are ten of my favourites in alphabetical order.