Episode 98: Assassin’s Creed Take on Feudal Japan Will Feature a Female Samurai and Black Shinobi

In a confusing but unsurprising move, Ubisoft’s upcoming Assassin’s Creed game based in feudal Japan is rumored to feature a female samurai and a black shinobi as the two playable characters. We discuss the odd choice to shoehorn in genders and races where they don’t make historical sense along with the increasing price and decreasing quality of AAA games, Call of Duty changing an operator’s name to avoid offending anyone, challenges to Hollywood’s diversity initiative, Disney’s choice to remove the dwarves from the upcoming Snow White remake, and the ironic decision to rename the new Captain America movie.