Report: Ubisoft To Reveal Multiple Assassin's Creed Games This Weekend, One Set In Japan - Kotaku

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The Assassin’s Creed machine implicit astatine Ubisoft is seemingly humming away, arsenic a caller study claims that not one, not two, but 3 antithetic Assassin’s Creed games volition beryllium announced Saturday alongside the already leaked and confirmed Mirage.

Assassin’s Creed is easy Ubisoft’s biggest and astir consistently palmy franchise. While the games person evolved a batch since the archetypal 1 was released successful 2007, the basal conception has remained the same. Each crippled transports players to a antithetic epoch and a antithetic portion of the world, similar ancient Egypt oregon the French Revolution. In each game, players research ample worlds portion completing quests and sidesplitting important, sometimes humanities targets arsenic portion of a larger, somewhat confusing meta-narrative involving past aliens, evil Templars, and rebel-like Assassins.

A caller study retired contiguous from Bloomberg, which corroborates an earlier study from TryHardGuides, reveals that Ubisoft is readying to uncover 4 antithetic Assassin’s Creed titles during its September 10 Ubisoft Forward event.

Kotaku contacted Ubisoft, but the steadfast didn’t respond earlier publication.

According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, the steadfast volition uncover a caller mobile crippled successful the Assassin’s Creed franchise arsenic good arsenic 2 different “major games.” The archetypal of these large games is—as we archetypal reported successful July—codenamed Red, and is reportedly an open-world game. The caller reports contiguous besides assertion that Red is acceptable successful Japan and is being developed by Ubisoft Quebec. The different “major” crippled is acceptable successful the “latter stages of the Holy Roman Empire” and involves witch trials. This crippled is supposedly code-named Neo oregon Hexe and is being developed by Ubisoft Montreal.

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It’s reported that some of these mainline games volition beryllium a portion of Ubisoft’s bigger online level known arsenic Assassin’s Creed Infinity. We archetypal learned astir this task past year, and haven’t heard overmuch much astir it officially since then. According to Bloomberg, Red and Neo are portion of Infinity.

While fans mightiness beryllium excited to yet get an Assassin’s Creed acceptable successful Japan, a portion of the satellite players person agelong wished for the bid to visit, it sounds similar you’ll request to hold a spot longer yet, arsenic some games volition reportedly motorboat nary earlier than 2024. And considering however large these games often are and however predominant delays person go successful the video crippled industry, it’s apt 1 of these projects could gaffe into 2025 oregon 2026.

Meanwhile, Ubisoft is besides going to uncover much details astir the precocious leaked (and past rapidly confirmed) Assassin’s Creed Mirage. That crippled is acceptable successful Baghdad during the 800s and was reportedly planned arsenic DLC for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla earlier becoming its ain project. Bloomberg reports that it volition ditch galore of the RPG-like mechanics recovered successful caller games successful the bid and volition alternatively absorption much connected stealth, similar older entries. Rumors are this 1 volition beryllium retired successful early 2023.

With each this Assassin’s Creed enactment successful the pipeline, I conjecture I get wherefore Chinese conglomerate Tencent has decided to put much successful Ubisoft, confirming contiguous that it was dumping different $300 million into the publisher.

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