I’m sorry if the front page of Kotaku reads like an ad for Ubisoft right now, but want to know all about it? That’s not even all the French company has recently done in the world of Assassin’s Creed during the big Ubisoft Forward event. There was so much Assassin’s CreedUbisoft held a whole showcase for the open world series today.
Of course we knew it was coming. And Ubisoft has always been a company with multiple Assassin’s Creed irons in the fire. But then again, there’s a reason this was the first year a series-exclusive segment was needed. Let’s go through it, shall we?
Besides finally ending Assassin’s Creed Valhalla with a free content update that wraps up the story, Ubisoft makes an AssCredo is set in Japan, which is technically the hot-ticket mainline series item after fans begged for that setting for so long. But the company is also really whip up the “back to basics” Assassin’s Creed Mirage, which was set 20 years earlier Walhalla. And do not forget, Walhalla I also got a new mode not too long ago. Walhalla gets regular updates all the while.
I’m pointing this out because I want to emphasize that what Ubisoft revealed today wasn’t the equivalent of the company finally feeding fans after a dry spell, even if it’s technically been a few years since the last main entry. There was no new Assassin’s Creed last year, but the machine never stopped. Actually Ubisoft claims 2021 was one of the best years ever for the franchise, in terms of sales.
Okay. Those are the big things that are rumored if not leaked for a long time. We also have a mysterious mobile game from Netflix, ostensibly to celebrate the eventual release of the live-action series, but that’s not the only mobile game currently in development. Not long after that Tencent acquires a larger stake in Ubisoftwe got the announcement of something codenamed Assassin’s Creed JADE, a ‘triple A’ game set in ancient China and on its way to mobile devices.
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But wait, there’s more! Although we only have a short teaser for it, Ubisoft is working on something that gives the code name Assassin’s Creed HEXE, which seems to be a witchy twist on the stabby franchise.
Did you think we were done? My sweet summer child. No. A guy at… axios is message we will also get Assassin’s Creed Invictusa multiplayer-centric entry supported by developers who have worked on games like Rainbow 6 Siege and for honor. Just to be safe, I’ll leave out all the news related to merch and the show. But let me know that everything I just typed wasn’t technically everything.
It’s no wonder Ubisoft also announced Assassin’s Creed Infinitya hub that both foretells our fate under the ever-expanding history series, but, more practically, connects this vast web of games. In one way or another. Ubisoft made Infinity sounds confusing as hell, although we do know it will function as a launcher and that Infinity will also feature elements of the larger modern, meta-storyline connecting the lore. we know that too Assassin’s Creed Red will be part of Infinity somehow, which makes sense: even if people are skeptical about downloading something elsethey will probably do this for a game this high profile.
It’s all very ambitious, and I’m sure there’s something here for every appetite you might have given the wide variety of things in development, not all of which will be a hundred hours plus behemoths. But damn, nothing’s out yet and I’m already a little overwhelmed and tired. Assassin’s Creed is not so much a franchise anymore, it is an industry.
Now you may be wondering how Ubisoft is doing all this amid a greater reckoning within its global development studios, some of which are looking to unite. While employees say Ubisoft has introduced things like abuse reporting systems, a necessary inclusion after a high-profile developer on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla fired for ‘misconduct’ the group remains critical of the way in which the company in their opinion abused more recent reports of ‘abusers’. However, in a recent interview, Ubisoft executive producer Marc-Alexis Côté: insisted that the company be more proactive?. “We intervene much earlier if there is a situation that could lead us down the path of harassment,” Côté said.
All the while, Ubisoft has strived to give studios more development time to deliver the staggering number of games announced today.
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