The Art of Assassin’s Creed Shadows

A full-color over-sized hardcover volume chronicling the development of the newest game in the iconic Assassin’s Creed saga.

Two compelling new protagonists, Naoe--an adept shinobi assassin from Iga Province--and Yasuke--the powerful African samurai of historical renown--emerge from the shadows of 15th Century Japan to discover their common destiny. Along the way, they’re joined and confronted by charismatic characters, will master a variety of weapons and tools, and traverse across dynamic and dangerous Sengoku-era Japanese landscapes--all of which is explored in this comprehensive tome.

The Art of Assassin’s Creed Shadows celebrates and chronicles the venerable series’ first foray into the landscape of feudal Japan. Dark Horse Books and Ubisoft have combined their efforts to produce an art book in the tradition of the world-spanning Brotherhood, aiming to satisfy and inspire shinobi assassin and samurai of all generations.

Rick Barba is one of the most published book authors in the videogame industry, with more than 130 game-related titles in print, including Diablo III: The Official Limited Edition Strategy Guide and the novel XCOM 2: Escalation (Insight, 2017). A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Rick has been on the writing faculty at Santa Clara University and the University of Nebraska Omaha, and has published fiction in numerous literary journals such as Chicago Review, Black Warrior Review, AQR, and Gordon Lish’s The Quarterly. He’s thrilled that the content of his two Starfleet Academy novels for Simon & Schuster (The Delta Anomaly and The Gemini Agent) is part of the official Star Trek canon. Rick lives just outside Boulder, Colorado.