Today’s a fun one for Assassin’s Creed fans far and wide. A trusted industry insider has the scoop on not just what’s on the horizon, but what fell by the wayside back when Ubisoft canceled a bunch of in-development projects earlier this year.
These fresh details paint a more vivid picture of what, precisely, was running through corporate minds when they greenlit Assassin’s Creed Singularity. On the other end of the spectrum, we have further reason to believe that none of the three titles still en route for the franchise are going to implode prior to launch, so… that’s nice.
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Assassin’s Creed Singularity, per none other than reliable insider Tom Henderson, was a blockchain card game. “Assassin’s Creed Singularity was in development for a couple of years,” Henderson notes, “and was intended to be a virtual trading card game with Web3 and blockchain integration.” In an alternate future within which Singularity came to fruition, it would have launched on PC and mobile devices.
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Hard to say when Singularity would have been given the go-ahead, but it was only a few short years ago when big publishers the world over were convinced that NFTs and the blockchain were the next great leap in gaming. Everybody wanted to get in early, because the gold rush would be brutal. It makes sense that Ubisoft would have attached a major IP like Assassin’s Creed to the big bucks to come. These things were going to print money, and naysayers would be brought forward kicking and screaming or booted out of the party early.
In any case, Henderson’s also doubled down on information concerning the Assassin’s Creed projects still on the table, a couple of which are on track for 2026 releases:
“Three games are understood to be fully “locked in” according to Insider Gaming sources, with Invictus, a multiplayer title, and Obsidian, the Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake, scheduled to release later this year. The third game, codenamed Neo (publicly known as Hexe), is now scheduled to release in 2027.”
We know that Black Flag’s remake has actually been delayed, but that same news scoop states that it was nearing the finish line when the company’s shuffle took place. In other words, it might be just a few more months until the excellent 2013 title gets its big baker’s-dozen-years-later glow-up. If Invictus, on the other hand, is a huge push toward multiplayer, then one could feasibly say that the Black Flag remake stands in as this year’s splashy single-player affair.
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