Ubisoft’s highly-anticipated Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag remake will launch in only a few months’ time, a recent report has claimed.
This morning, Ubisoft revealed its newest monetary outcomes and laid out a slate of upcoming video games set to reach earlier than the top of its present monetary yr, on March 31, 2026.
One title due for launch remained “unannounced” in Ubisoft’s official presentation, however a brand new Insider Gaming report has now said that this not-so-mysterious undertaking is the brand new model of Black Flag, which is scheduled to reach in the course of the week of March 23, 2026.
Regardless of years of inner leaks, fan hypothesis and even hints from the sport’s lead actor, Ubisoft continues to be to formally verify its Black Flag remake exists. However gamers have been monitoring its progress for some time now, and assume they’ve a reasonably good thought of the way it will play.
Alongside visible and gameplay upgrades to convey the sport nearer to Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ stage of constancy and extra RPG-like focus, a current report detailed plans for the sport to function all-new content material and missions for its pirate hero Edward Kenway. On the similar time, nonetheless, Black Flag’s modern-day gameplay sections have apparently been excised — one thing that many followers aren’t completely happy about.
It is believed that work on this new Black Flag remake has been spearheaded by Ubisoft Singapore, which beforehand launched the long-delayed Cranium and Bones — a recreation that started life as an offshoot of Black Flag’s maritime gameplay.
Ubisoft goes all-in on Assassin’s Creed, its greatest franchise, with this yr’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows adopted by a current Saudi Arabia-funded free replace to 2023’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage. Alongside its Black Flag remake, subsequent yr is predicted to convey a second main Shadows growth. Past that, Ubisoft has already introduced {that a} multiplayer Assassin’s Creed recreation and its subsequent large blockbuster, the witchcraft-themed Assassin’s Creed Hexe, are additionally within the works.
This morning, Ubisoft stated its newest optimistic monetary outcomes had been pushed partially by a “sturdy efficiency” for its Assassin’s Creed franchise. However whereas the corporate famous that Mirage had now handed 10 million gross sales, there was no new determine supplied for the way properly this yr’s Shadows has bought.
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