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  • Assassin’s Creed Almost Wound Up Going to Space

    Assassin’s Creed Almost Wound Up Going to Space

    Over the years, Ubisoft’s explored plenty of time periods and locations for the Assassin’s Creed franchise, from ancient Egypt and Greece to the Italian Renaissance and the American and French Revolutions. (Still no Wild West or Japan, though.) The sci-fi conceit of present day characters using a machine to relive the memories of ancestors genetic…


  • 12 Hours With 2021’s Latest Big Viking Game

    12 Hours With 2021’s Latest Big Viking Game

    I wanted to like Tribes of Midgard. It has great style, with wonderful visuals that feel ripped out of an ancient painting. The combat is fun and responsive. But it also incorporates some of the worst parts of roguelikes and survival games and quickly becomes repetitive, with little payoff or progression.