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After months of leaks and building expectations, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is a surprisingly clumsy remake, with bugs and parkour missteps marring my three-hour preview

After months of leaks and building expectations, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is a surprisingly clumsy remake, with bugs and parkour missteps marring my three-hour preview

bashu May 21, 2026
Remakes are very much in vogue these days, providing developers the opportunity to return to an old...
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Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games: “it gets very hard to tell what’s light, what’s shadow, what’s dark, what’s safe”

bashu May 21, 2026
Finally, a game developer who agrees with my fervently held view that new technology makes everything worse....
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