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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: How to find the Sphinx and solve its riddles

The sphinx is one of the four end-game bosses in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey that you need to kill for a piece of Eden as part of the Atlantis portion of your Odyssey, and although it’s undeniably the easiest of the four, it’s also the only one that asks you to keep the hacking and slashing to a minimum.

Instead, you’re tasked with a classic test of wits and riddles to entertain the sphinx.

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Assassin’s Creed Is Coming To Reverse: 1999

In an unusual pairing, Assassin’s Creed Is Coming To Reverse: 1999.

Seth_hun33d ago

What the hell is Reverse 1999? :)

goken32d ago

Apparently it’s some Gacha thingy…

Kekewei32d ago

Why is it listed as today's hottest, nobody cares about it here...

Servbot4132d ago

Ubisoft buying their way to the top. They always have the shittiest advertisement ideas, like flooding videos and comment sections with obvious bots.

Garethvk32d ago (Edited 32d ago )

I think it is more of a global appeal versus a U.S. market.

Garethvk32d ago (Edited 32d ago )

Obviously they do or there would not be the hits on it. Even Google picked it up for their news feed.

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The Open-World Genre In Gaming Has A Quantity Over Quality Problem

More developers need to focus on what makes open-world games like Elden Ring and RDR2 pop, instead of focusing on needless map expansions.

KyRo279d ago

Open world games need a overhaul in general.

Go here - kill this target
Go here - fetch this
Clear this camp
Add dozens of filler side quests
Tack on a RPG skill tree
Finish up with a couple of hundred collectables

98 percent of open world games follow this game design and it's boring now after nearly a decade of following this same design.

anast279d ago

Maybe they know what it takes to make an engaging open-world, but they won't. For most publishers, managers probably get bonuses for finding ways to cut corners.

IAMRealHooman279d ago

yes. Every ubisoft like is overly large map. just to say it's huge with nothing in it.
Love'em or hate'em a yakuza game is a significantly smaller map, with a lot of side activities and absurd quest lines.trying the different restaurants in game can be enjoyable as they offer different buffs, do that or make traversal so good you wouldn't dare fast travel ie Spiderman

YourMommySpoils279d ago (Edited 279d ago )

Stellar Blade says hello.

The only quality game to come out this year.

exputers279d ago

While true, that one's not a full open-world. Pretty much like God of War Ragnarok.

YourMommySpoils279d ago

Not sure how everyone judges this. If that's the case, that would mean even The Witcher 3 isn't open world and just semi maps slowly unlocked.

jznrpg33d ago (Edited 33d ago )

Was with you until the only quality game part. Plenty of great games this year. It also came out last year

jznrpg33d ago

Some are great some are not. That’s the same for any genre. There are tons of Metroidvania’s, some are great some are not, souls games etc etc

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Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed

A fullscreen pop-up ad appeared in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey for some players this week.

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Einhander1972559d ago

Technically, we wanted more money.

bradfh559d ago

Call of Duty already does this; Ubisoft and other game companies will follow suit and explore similar approaches.

Kaii559d ago

Congratulations, A technical error In displaying ads while playing.
EU consumer law needs to chew these assholes a new one.

TheColbertinator559d ago

At this point the entire EU commission must be bribed

Christopher559d ago

The big note here is the built in ad-displays during gameplay and not that they happened. Start screen, cool. Gameplay? That shouldn't ever happen.

Yi-Long559d ago (Edited 559d ago )

"Start screen, cool."

Uhm, no. Start screen very much NOT cool either. There really need to be new laws implemented banning these companies from shoving ads down out throats at every opportunity they see fit.

Crows90558d ago

For free to play which is a market of games needing monetization through different venues. In those games this stuff is fine by me. But when you pay ..20, 40 ,60, or $70 that's when it is not okay to any degree.

jznrpg558d ago

Start screen not cool either

walken7559d ago

They're testing the waters, vote with your wallets.

porkChop559d ago

That's not a technical error. An ad can't be displayed mid-game without you creating the code/tech to make that possible first.

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