The official Assassin's Creed Twitter account threw shade at Elon Musk by mocking his Path of Exile 2 credentials, or lack thereof. The move marks a continuation of a bizarre beef that started with the world's richest known man taking shots at Assassin's Creed Shadows.
Since its May 2024 reveal, the latest installment in Ubisoft's open-world series has found itself targeted by some vocal groups for featuring a black protagonist in 16th-century Japan. In one of the most high-profile examples of this backlash, Elon Musk publicly claimed that "DEI kills art" and Assassin's Creed Shadows proves it. The executive producer for the franchise, Marc-Alexis Côté, subsequently characterized this comment as unproductive, asserting that the Tesla CEO was "feeding hatred" before the game was even out.
The day-one version of Assassin's Creed Shadows features a bug that some players find so cool that they want it turned into a real feature.
Musk has once again taken aim at the game in late March 2025 by remarking on the recently unbanned Twitch streamer Hasan Piker posting a paid Assassin's Creed Shadows promotion on Twitter. "Hasan is a fraud," the billionaire wrote in a March 25 tweet,...
