UPDATE: Ubisoft officially confirms.

UPDATE 5pm UK: Following this morning's leak, Ubisoft has present confirmed Assassin's Creed Mirage arsenic the adjacent rubric successful its humanities stabathon series.

Official artwork for Mirage shows, arsenic expected, Valhalla quality Basim successful his younger days. This is the smaller, stealth-focused crippled which has been widely-reported connected implicit the past fewer months.

Eurogamer reported earlier this twelvemonth that Mirage would beryllium acceptable successful Baghdad. As antecedently announced by Ubisoft, the aboriginal of Assassin's Creed - presumably including its adjacent large section Infinity - volition beryllium elaborate adjacent play during the publisher's Ubisoft Forward livestream.

ORIGINAL STORY 11am UK: Promotional artwork for the still-unannounced Assassin's Creed Mirage has popped up online, seemingly from Ubisoft's ain store.

The image, shared connected Twitter by Assassin's Creed fansite The Codex Network, appears to beryllium for immoderate benignant of bonus quest. It shows a hooded Assassin leader equipped with the series' iconic hidden leaf weapon, facing down the silhouette of an force with a curved sword. [UPDATE: The images successful that tweet person present been removed owed to a copyright claim.]

Setting a communicative ngo astir the celebrated fable of The Forty Thieves would reflector different specified bonus quests offered by Ubisoft successful the past, specified arsenic a Beowulf-themed communicative for Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

We're expecting an authoritative uncover for Assassin's Creed Mirage successful the adjacent future, astatine this month's Ubisoft Forward lawsuit connected Saturday, 10th September.

Already, however, assorted leaks person sprung details of Mirage each implicit the internet. We've known for immoderate clip that this crippled volition beryllium a smaller-scale and stealth-focused introduction akin to Assassin's Creed's origins. (And not to Assassin's Creed Oranges, which acceptable the franchise connected its much caller RPG path.)

Eurogamer archetypal reported earlier this twelvemonth that Mirage would beryllium acceptable successful Baghdad, and chronicle the earlier adventures of Valhalla quality Basim.

If you've completed Valhalla, you'll cognize Basim is simply a precise important quality - hopefully we'll perceive much astir each that successful Mirage arsenic well.