At this moment in time, I have spent well over a hundred hours exploring Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft’s gorgeous virtual imagining of feudal Japan. Thousands of samurai have fallen beneath my ...

We interviewed two prominent figures involved in the historical development of the game Assassin's Creed Shadows. Read on to ...

Oda Nobunaga, depicted here ... and the powerless imperial court named him shogun (military dictator) in 1603—thereby officially ending the Warring States Period. He embarked on construction ...

A painting depicts Oda Nobunaga, the powerful daimyo who conquered ... Nobunaga ultimately deposed Yoshiaki as shogun and forced him into exile, ending the Ashikaga shogunate’s 237-year rule.

In Shogun, Taiko is a term used for a retired regent who ruled ... and started his journey as a servant for the daimyo Oda Nobunaga who was one of the powerful figures in Japan at the time. Being ...

Washed up on the shores of Japan, Yasuke is a black man who is rescued by Portuguese missionaries and finds himself, through various quirks of fate, in the employ of the warlord Oda Nobunaga as a ...

Naoe is a force to be reckoned with. That warlord is Oda Nobunaga who is trying to unite the warring clans of Japan whether the clans want to unite or not. It’s not long before a siege is laid ...

The new shogun requisitioned a large proportion of ... In 1579 Ieyasu had her beheaded when he discovered she was plotting against Oda Nobunaga, the lord he served at the time.

The game takes place right after Yasuke’s master, Oda Nobunaga, killed himself after being trapped in a castle (Siege warfare! We got there.) -- which means, of course, that Yasuke was actually ...

so when Nobunaga is surrounded by enemies and decides to take his own life, Yasuke is trusted with protecting his succession. In order to further his claim as the new shogun, the traitor Akechi ...

Shadows’ opening sees Yasuke – then a slave of Jesuit missionaries known as ‘Diogo’ – in his first meeting with Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga. This sets up a narrative that, just like FX’s ...