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News Assassin's Creed Valhalla: The Siege of Paris August Release Date Confirmed
Charge!
Update: And just like that, Ubisoft has confirmed that the second expansion for Assassin's Creed Valhalla, titled The Siege of Paris, will launch on the 12th August. Original Story: Assassin's Creed Valhalla is supposed to be getting its second expansion, titled The Siege of Paris, this summer — but Ubisoft is yet to grace us with a...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Update Confirmed for 27th July, Adds Level Scaling
And one handed swords?
Ubisoft has confirmed that the next big patch for Assassin's Creed Valhalla will launch next week, on the 27th July (Tuesday). This update has been expected since it was spotted on Sony's servers just a few days ago, but it's still nice to have official confirmation. So what's going to be included in this patch? Well, the...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's French Excursion Gets a Fresh Set of PS5, PS4 Trophies
Parisian pots
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s second major expansion pack – tentatively scheduled to release this summer – looks like its sailing closer to its PlayStation 5 and PS4 release, as publisher Ubisoft has added a fresh batch of Trophies to the game. The Siege of Paris-themed trinkets seem fairly straightforward: you’ll unlock gongs...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla One Handed Sword Update Out Next Week, It Seems
Stay sharp
Update: It would appear as though the next big update for Assassin's Creed Valhalla will launch next week. The patch has been spotted on Sony's servers by the reliable PlayStation Game Size, and that usually means that the update will be available to download the following week. Ubisoft will also be preparing full patch notes, which will...
News Ubisoft Planning for Assassin's Creed Infinity, Online Platform in 2024
Project confirmed to be in development
Update: Since the publication of Bloomberg's story earlier today, Ubisoft has commented on the project and confirmed it is indeed in development. A statement confirms the Assassin's Creed Infinity codename and adds: "Rather than continuing to pass the baton from game to game, we profoundly believe this is an...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Update 1.022 Gigantic Patch Notes Revealed, Out Now on PS5, PS4
More improvements than ever before
Update: Assassin's Creed Valhalla patch 1.022 is available to download now on PS5 and PS4. It's around 4.7GB in size, but don't let the relatively small file fool you — this is a massive update boasting a huge list of additions and improvements. You can find the full patch notes below as part of the original...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla DLC and Updates Will Continue Well Into 2022
One handed swords coming soon
As promised, Ubisoft has detailed the future of Assassin's Creed Valhalla. The big news here is that support for the game will continue "well into" 2022. Additional expansions are in development, with a teaser for a mystical-looking DLC shown at the end of the video above. Turning to the more immediate future, one...
Master of all
Assassin's Creed Valhalla is getting a brand new game mode on the 15th June, as part of the title's next major update. The 'Mastery Challenge' will provide Eivor with, well, a bunch of challenges to undertake — and it sounds quite in-depth, with score tracking and various modifiers to take into account. Mastery Challenge is being...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Basim Armour Out Now for Free
Dress up as the assassin himself
Basim, one of the main characters in Assassin's Creed Valhalla, has some cool proto-Assassin armour — and players have been asking for it to be added as a wearable costume since the game's launch. Here we are over half a year later, and it's finally here — for free. To get Basim's costume, all you have to do is...
News Another Big Assassin's Creed Valhalla Patch Probably Hits Next Week
Are you up for the challenge?
The next big update for Assassin's Creed Valhalla will drop in the near future, it seems. Patch 1.022 was spotted by PlayStation Game Size when it was added to PlayStation servers earlier this week. In the past, this has almost always meant that the update will be available to download around seven days later. What's...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Update Planned for Ubisoft's E3 Show
Odin's watching
Ubisoft is planning to go big at E3 this year, with its Ubisoft Forward event set to give us a good look at upcoming titles Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six: Extraction. But it's not just about new games for the French publisher — it's also promising updates on various "live" titles, including Assassin's Creed Valhalla. The open world...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Wrath of the Druids Launch Trailer Prepares for Bloodshed
Red on green
The first expansion for Assassin's Creed Valhalla is out on the 13th May, and Ubisoft is here to show it off in trailer form. Wrath of the Druids sees Eivor travel to Ireland, where he or she does battle with a dangerous druidic cult, hoping to win favour with the isle's kings. As we've come to expect of the French publisher, the...
Plus a bunch of bug fixes
Update: Assassin's Creed Valhalla patch 1.2.1 (1.021 on PS5) is available to download now on PS5 and PS4, It's around 5.5GB on the former, and can be anywhere between 5GB and 8GB on the latter, depending on your region. For more information on this update, check out the full patch notes in the original article below...
News New Assassin's Creed Valhalla Wrath of the Druids Screenshots Show a... Werewolf?
Howling for you
All-new promotional screenshots for the Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Wrath of the Druids expansion have hit the 'net, and they... Well, have a look for yourself (thanks @ALumia_Italia on Twitter). The DLC takes place in Ireland, as Eivor makes alliances with kings and chieftains. Eivor will also be fighting werewolves, apparently. We...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Devs Now Working on Better Updates at a Slower Pace
Team shares info on the update process
Assassin's Creed Valhalla has been updated numerous times since its launch in November 2020. Ubisoft has said on multiple occasions that it's fully committed to providing extensive post-launch support, but recent patches have left a lot to be desired — mostly because they keep introducing new issues. It's...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Update Incoming, DLC Trophies Live on PS4
Raise the sail
The next update for Assassin's Creed Valhalla has been added to PlayStation servers, as spotted by PlayStation Game Size. This usually means that a patch is coming our way very soon — probably within seven days or so. We've had no official word on what the update will include (aside from potential bug fixes), but Ubisoft will likely...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Wrath of the Druids DLC Delayed into May
Lower the sail
Assassin's Creed Valhalla's first expansion, Wrath of the Druids, has been delayed. It was meant to arrive on the 29th April, but it's been pushed back a couple of weeks to the 13th May. The DLC sees Eivor sail to Ireland, where battles with bloodthirsty cultists ensue. Ubisoft hasn't given a great deal of information on why the...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Ostara Festival Event Extended Following Bug Fixes
Was meant to end this week
Originally set to end on the 8th April, the Ostara Festival event in Assassin's Creed Valhalla has been extended. The festival was essentially rendered unplayable for a number of days following its launch, thanks to a nasty bug that was causing crashes. Ubisoft fixed this issue with a update, but players had already missed...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's In-Game Store Will Soon Offer More for Less
A welcome improvement
Ubisoft is making some improvements to Reda's shop in Assassin's Creed Valhalla. The mysterious young man currently offers three different items on a weekly basis, with the selection changing every Tuesday. These items are taken from the various weapon, armour, and cosmetic packs that can be purchased from the Animus Store with...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Patch 1.020 Out Now, Finally Fixes Decorations and Festival Crashes
Party time?
Update 2: Assassin's Creed Valhalla patch 1.020 is available to download now on both PS5 and PS4. Thankfully, it's only a very small download. Hopefully the Ostara Festival is finally working as intended! Update: Ubisoft has confirmed that the next patch for Assassin's Creed Valhalla will deploy on Friday the 26th March. As predicted,...
News One Handed Swords are Coming to Assassin's Creed Valhalla Following Months of Fan Requests
Live by the sword
There's a chance that the headline of this article is going to come off as entitled if you're not familiar with Assassin's Creed Valhalla, but this is a surprisingly big deal. The open world adventure features a range of melee weapon types that you can play around with, including axes, spears, and two handed swords. But one handed...
Soapbox Why Must Assassin's Creed Valhalla Still Be So Glitchy?
Just let me be anonymous
I feel like my struggle to find a game to truly invest in for the first couple of months of 2021 is becoming fairly common knowledge. I'm set once Returnal launches, but I've been absent from our What Are You Playing This Weekend weekly Talking Point most of the time and I can't bring myself to replay games. I feel like I've...
Party's over
It hasn't been a smooth ride for Assassin's Creed Valhalla since its launch last year. On top of the game being riddled with all kinds of bugs on PlayStation 4, it took Ubisoft at least a couple of months to properly polish the experience on PS5 — and there's still a laundry list of issues that Ubisoft keeps track of in an official...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Gets Combat Focused 'Mastery Challenge' Update This Spring
Forged in battle
Ubisoft has revealed a more in-depth content roadmap for Assassin's Creed Valhalla, confirming that the game's first expansion, Wrath of the Druids, will launch on the 29th April. But what's beyond Eivor's trip to Ireland? Well, another free update — much like the ongoing Ostara Festival — is planned for late spring. It's called...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla DLC Wrath of the Druids April Release Date Confirmed
Eivor's off to Ireland
Assassin's Creed Valhalla's first expansion now has a confirmed release date. Wrath of the Druids will see Eivor travel the Ireland, where you'll "gain the favour of Gaelic kings and confront the druidic cult, the Children of Danu". Given some of the rather twisted storylines in the main campaign, it all sounds quite...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Ostara Festival Is Live, Features Minigames and Cosmetic Rewards
In bloom
The second season of Assassin's Creed Valhalla content kicks off today with the entirely free Ostara Festival. Much like the Yule Festival that took place at the start of the year, this new event introduces a number of minigames, a couple of new quests, and a selection of unique rewards. Once again, the festivities are all contained within...
By the gods
Ubisoft is celebrating the imminent second season of content for Assassin's Creed Valhalla by gifting all players what it calls the 'Godly Reward'. You can find this pack right now on the in-game Animus Store, and it won't cost you a penny. The highlight here is Altair's Outfit, which lets you dress Eivor up as the original Assassin's...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Update 1.2 Out Now, Get All the Patch Notes Here
Adds support for next event
Update: Go go go! Update 1.2 for Assassin's Creed Valhalla can be downloaded right now on PS5 and PS4, bringing with it a long list of additions, tweaks, and fixes. You can check out the full list of patch notes in the original article below. As a reminder, the patch will be 12.28GB on PS5 and 12.6GB on PS4. Original...
Raid on
Update: Assassin's Creed Valhalla's big February update (patch 1.012) is available to download now on PS5 and PS4. It's around 10-11GB on both systems. Again, this is arguably the game's most significant update since its release in November. It adds River Raids — an entirely new, replayable activity with its own rewards — as well as a...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla River Raid Update 1.1.2 Is Huge, Arrives This Week
Those rivers aren't gonna raid themselves
Update 2: We've got another update from Ubisoft with regards to the big Assassin's Creed Valhalla River Raid patch that's set to arrive this week. The Assassin's Creed UK Twitter account has confirmed that the River Raid activity will be a part of Title Update 1.1.2, which will also include a number of game...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Will Have 'Stronger and Longer' Post-Launch Support than Odyssey
Ubisoft doubles down
Assassin's Creed Valhalla has been a huge hit for Ubisoft. The open world Viking adventure released in November last year on both PS5 and PS4. Not long after, the French publisher announced that Valhalla had enjoyed the "largest launch" in series history. And earlier this week, Ubisoft confirmed that it had its
A telling month ahead
Assassin's Creed Valhalla has been on the market for over two months now, and although the game's in a better state than it was at launch — particularly on PS5 — it still has its fair share of annoying bugs. Some of these issues are minor at best, while others are preventing players from completing quests or advancing the...
News Assassin's Creed Community Cracks Crazy In-Game Mystery to Unlock Legendary Nodens' Arc Bow
And now you can get it
The Assassin's Creed community has recently become infatuated with a weapon called 'Nodens' Arc' — a futuristic-looking Isu bow that can be found in Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Players first got their hands on the bow when an unbreakable rock was discovered on an island in the snowy North of the map. By fiddling with game...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Broken Facial Animations Will Be Addressed in an Upcoming Patch
Face value
Ubisoft has updated its official list of 'Known Issues' for Assassin's Creed Valhalla. This is where the development team makes note of existing bugs, and gives a rough timeframe on when players can expect them to be fixed. Newly added to the list is "Lip Sync / Mouth movement during dialogues since 1.1.1", which will apparently be...
News New Assassin's Creed Manga Expands the Tale of Shao Jun
Coming West in February
Remember Shao Jun, the hero from Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China? Well, her story's getting its very own manga adaptation, Ubisoft has announced. Published by manga giant VIZ, Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun will be available both at retail and online from the 16th February. It'll feature an "extended" version of Shao...
News The Assassin's Creed Valhalla Quests that Most Players Don't Know Exist are Finally Being Fixed
Vengeance at last
Did you know that there's a specific type of dynamic quest in Assassin's Creed Valhalla that the vast majority of players will probably never see? They're called 'Avenge' quests, and they're triggered when Eivor comes across the dead body of a fellow Viking out in the open world. These bodies represent other Valhalla players who...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's New Patch Has Introduced a Bad Face-Breaking Bug
A bad case of lockjaw
Bloody hell, it looks like the latest update for Assassin's Creed Valhalla — patch 1.011 — has introduced a rather annoying bug. The aforementioned update focusses on fixes for a huge number of (relatively minor) issues, but somehow, it's also managed to break the game's facial animation system. It's never easy, is it? The...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Patch 1.011 Out Now on PS5 and PS4, Huge List of Fixes Included
Get all the patch notes here
Update: Assassin's Creed Valhalla patch 1.011 is available to download right now on PlayStation 5, weighing in at exactly 2.435GB. It contains the long, long list of fixes and changes listed below, so be sure to check it out if you've been facing a particular problem. Original story: Ubisoft promised the next...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Patch News Coming Soon, Ubisoft Updates Long List of Known Issues
Raise the sail
2021 promises to be a big year for Assassin's Creed Valhalla. The open world adventure is getting a bunch of free content updates spread throughout the next 12 months, alongside two "massive" expansions, set to release in the spring and summer, respectively. So what's next for Eivor's saga? Well, we know that we're getting the...
Treasure hoard
Since the launch of Assassin's Creed Valhalla in November last year, Ubisoft has been adding new microtransactions to the in-game store every other week. Previous Assassin's Creed titles followed the same pattern, but there are elements of Valhalla's system that players are beginning to question, and once you understand why, it's not...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Yule Festival Is Live, Features Unique Activities and Loot
Party time
Starting from the 17th December and lasting until the 7th January, the Yule Festival is the first wave of 'seasonal content' in Assassin's Creed Valhalla. You'll need to have completed at least one England story arc in order to access it. It all sounds rather festive and cosy. Ravensthorpe — your settlement — has been expanded to...
News Ubisoft Shoves XP Boosting Microtransaction into Assassin's Creed Valhalla a Month After Launch
Predictable!
Ubisoft got blasted for putting a "time-saving" experience point booster into Assassin's Creed Odyssey — a booster that you could purchase with real money. However, the microtransaction didn't make it into the sequel, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, when the game launched on PS5 and PS4 last month. Some saw this as cause for celebration...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's New Patch Includes Adaptive Trigger Support on PS5
Hidden feature
Assassin's Creed Valhalla's latest update — patch 1.010 — comes packing a hidden feature on PS5. Ubisoft has actually added support for the DualSense controller's adaptive triggers, which comes into play when you're using Eivor's bow. It's basically what you'd expect. R2 tightens as Eivor pulls the bowstring back, and it has a...
Patch notes released
Update: Assassin's Creed Valhalla patch 1.010 is available to download now on PS5 and PS4. As Ubisoft said, it's around 2.5GB in size. You can find all of the update information below, in our original article. However, one thing that isn't highlighted in the patch notes is that this update adds three new perks to the skill...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Second Big Update Arrives Next Week
Raid ready
As far as we know, Assassin's Creed Valhalla is still getting a bunch of improvements and new gameplay features before the year is out. Ubisoft previously detailed all of this stuff in an article regarding the game's post-launch roadmap, promising activities like repeatable, dynamic raids as part of the title's first 'seasonal' update...
News Ubisoft Working to Resolve Missing PS4 to PS5 Upgrades of Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs
No free option available
Update (1st December, 2020): Ubisoft's investigation into why UK gamers can't upgrade their PS4 copies of Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Watch Dogs Legion has be fruitless thus far, but in a message on its Twitter account it promised it was working to resolve the problem. The saga rumbles on... Update (28th November,...
News The Internet Can't Stop Talking About the Kids in Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Freaks of nature
Assassin's Creed Valhalla might have been patched over the past couple of days to make it run better than ever on PlayStation 5, but all the internet wants to do is talk about the children that inhabit Ubisoft's take on England in 873 AD. This is something we experienced to some degree during our review process, although this
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1.004 Performance Practically Unchanged on PS5
Let the bloodbath begin
Update: There was a lot of talk on social this week that Ubisoft had effectively gimped the PlayStation 5 version of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, after Digital Foundry discovered the game performed best on Sony’s console. That’s not quite the case, however. Performance Mode, which targets 60 frames-per-second on PS5, is...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Patch 1.004 Out Now on PS5, PS4, Features Huge List of Improvements
Odin be praised
Update: Assassin's Creed Valhalla update 1.004 is available to download now on PS5 and PS4. It's around 2.6GB in size. For the full patch notes, check out the rest of the article below. Original Story: As promised by Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed Valhalla's next big update is arriving tomorrow — that's the 26th November, in case...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Update Arriving This Week
Should be a big one
Assassin's Creed Valhalla could do with a patch or two. Or three. The open world adventure runs much better on PS5 than it does on PS4 — as stressed in our Assassin's Creed Valhalla PS5 review — but it's still rather buggy, and we dare say that some gameplay elements could be adjusted for the better. Ubisoft had previously...
