One of the characters is based on Yasuke, a formerly enslaved black man from Mozambique, who worked for the Japanese war lord ...

The Assassin's Creed Twitter page roasted Elon Musk for paying people to play video games for him after he insulted Shadows.

Yasuke is a real historical figure thought of by historians as the “first Black samurai.” Though his exact origins are ...

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The "Assassin's Creed" series of video games is adored for painstaking historic accuracy, but also sparks controversy with ...

The "Assassin's Creed" series of video games is adored for painstaking historic accuracy, but also sparks controversy with heavy use of artistic license -- most recently with a black samurai in the ...

Subtitled Shadows, it follows dual protagonists – a ninja named Naoe and a samurai based on the historical Black samurai Yasuke. While it’s a known issue that Asian representation in Western ...

While the historical existence of Yasuke stands without question, some gamers took offence at the notion that Yasuke was being portrayed as a “black samurai”. That’s because the historical sources are ...

The Assassin's Creed series of video games is adored for painstaking historic accuracy, but also sparks controversy with heavy use of artistic license – most recently with a black samurai in the ...