Samurai games provide a blend of intense combat, honor, and rich historical settings. Top titles include Ghost of Tsushima, ...

Critics claim Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Black samurai is historically inaccurate, but Yasuke’s real-life story proves ...

The movies in the last of those categories are outlined below, since these films can count themselves among the most intense ...

The upcoming game, Assassin's Creed Shadows, plunges players into the tumultuous Sengoku length of feudal Japan. This ...

From the moment it was announced, Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ interpretation of feudal Japan was met with immediate blowback — ...

The samurai were a class of skilled professional warriors, experts in deadly force. They were similar to European knights in ...

One of the characters is based on Yasuke, a formerly enslaved black man from Mozambique, who worked for the Japanese war lord Oda Nobunaga.

The "Assassin's Creed" series of video games is adored for painstaking historic accuracy, but also sparks controversy with heavy use of artistic license -- most recently with a black samurai in the ...

Japanese critics say the video game from French developer Ubisoft distorts history and disrespects sacred sites.