Ubisoft Leaves Assassin's Creed Shadows With a Final Update Next Week, Just Over a Year After Launch

Ubisoft has confirmed it will release a final Assassin's Creed Shadows update next week on June 16, bringing to a close its additional content for the game. While it's possible that future tweaks and bug fixes may follow, Ubisoft has labelled Title Update 1.1.11 as "one last update" for its samurai blockbuster, just 15 months after launch, signalling that this is the end for notable additions. Fans have lamented how Shadows has received noticeably fewer post-launch updates than its enormously-successful predecessor, Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Just one expansion, Claws of Awaji, arrived during Shadows' first year — before Ubisoft confirmed it was winding down support. Comparisons between Valhalla and Shadows are difficult, as the former launched in the middle of Covid lockdowns in 2020 when many more people were at home playing video games, and keen for more to play. Shadows, meanwhile, is being immediately followed by the highly-anticipated Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, which Ubisoft is likely keen not to distract attention from. But with word of a scrapped co-op expansion that would have continued the story of Shadows and its fledgling brotherhood, fans have lamented not s