Ubisoft puts full-screen ad in Assassin’s Creed game

On Nov. 24, French gaming media reporter Fab encountered a bad thing while playing Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey - when he tried to open the map menu to check his location, the game popped up an anachronistic Assassin’s Creed: Phantasmagoria full-screen advertisement.

This isn’t the first time Ubisoft has put ads in its own games - all of the Assassin’s Creed titles released in recent years have had the Animus online store built into the main interface for promotional purposes, but it’s the first time it’s appeared in the form of a full-screen pop-up like this.

The full-screen ads have been tested on the Xbox Series X|S and PS5 versions of the game. It’s common for ads to appear in free-to-play games to recoup costs, but it’s probably not appropriate for players to be forced to watch ads after they’ve paid for the game, not to mention that inserting ads into the game will undoubtedly disrupt the game’s immersive and immersive experience, which will inevitably lead to discontent from gamers.

Earlier this month, Xbox owners reported that a full-screen advertisement for Call of Duty 20: Modern Warfare 3 appeared when they booted up their console, and we don’t know if Ubisoft used this as inspiration for their Assassin’s Creed: Visions ads, or if they’ll be installing full-screen advertisements for more games in the future.

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Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism replicates dam project in My World

On November 16, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s Public Works Office in Japan, which is in charge of the Tachino Dam, dropped an amazing video on the tubes: a model of the Tachino Dam, which is under construction, recreated in My World.

Tachino Dam is a direct-flow dam under construction in Kumamoto Prefecture, with the left bank of the dam adjacent to Otsu City, the right bank adjacent to Minamiso Village, and the downstream portion of the dam leading from Shirakawa to the Ariake Sea. The dam is 87 meters high and 197 meters wide, and the pouring of concrete for the dam body was completed in May of this year, and it is scheduled to be officially opened in 2024.

In the Tachino Dam recreation video, both the project under construction in reality and the unfinished portion of the project have been recreated 1:1 in the game, and the surrounding terrain, including trees, roads, and other buildings, has also been carefully created. However, due to the complexity of the scene, the demo video even showed significant lag, so it seems that it is time to upgrade the computer configuration of the dam construction team.

Switch version of “Watermelon Game” sales broke 4 million, the official launch of LINE animation stickers

Aladdin X, the developer of the Japanese version of the “synthetic watermelon” The Watermelon Game, confirmed on Nov. 22 that sales of the game have officially surpassed 4 million copies. on Oct. 23, the number was still only 2 million, and in a month’s time The Watermelon Game has sold 2 million copies on the Switch platform, enough to see how hot this game is in Japan.

The Watermelon Game was originally a built-in mini-game for the PopIn Aladdin projector, but was later released for NS in response to user demand. Although the game was not very popular for a long time after that, it quickly gained widespread attention after being broadcast live by a number of famous anchors in September this year, and sales achieved 4 million copies in just three months.

In order to celebrate the achievements of the “watermelon game”, the developer Aladdin X decided to launch the game in the instant messaging software LINE various fruit expression animation stickers. The set of 16 emoji stickers can be purchased by LINE users for 250 yen or 100 LINE coins from the official online store or directly from the LINE APP app.