Ubisoft’s highly-anticipated Murderer’s Creed: Black Flag remake will launch in only a few months’ time, a contemporary 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 tip of its present monetary 12 months, 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 acknowledged that this not-so-mysterious venture is the brand new model of Black Flag, which is scheduled to reach through the week of March 23, 2026.
Regardless of years of inside leaks, fan hypothesis and even hints from the sport’s lead actor, Ubisoft remains to be to formally affirm its Black Flag remake exists. However gamers have been monitoring its progress for some time now, and assume they’ve a reasonably good concept of the way it will play.
Alongside visible and gameplay upgrades to carry the sport nearer to Murderer’s Creed Shadows’ stage of constancy and extra RPG-like focus, a latest report detailed plans for the sport to function all-new content material and missions for its pirate hero Edward Kenway. On the identical time, nevertheless, Black Flag’s modern-day gameplay sections have apparently been excised — one thing that many followers aren’t comfortable 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 sport that started life as an offshoot of Black Flag’s maritime gameplay.
Ubisoft goes all-in on Murderer’s Creed, its greatest franchise, with this 12 months’s Murderer’s Creed Shadows adopted by a latest Saudi Arabia-funded free replace to 2023’s Murderer’s Creed Mirage. Alongside its Black Flag remake, subsequent 12 months is predicted to carry a second main Shadows growth. Past that, Ubisoft has already introduced {that a} multiplayer Murderer’s Creed sport and its subsequent massive blockbuster, the witchcraft-themed Murderer’s Creed Hexe, are additionally within the works.
This morning, Ubisoft mentioned its newest constructive monetary outcomes had been pushed partly by a “sturdy efficiency” for its Murderer’s Creed franchise. However whereas the corporate famous that Mirage had now handed 10 million gross sales, there was no new determine supplied for a way properly this 12 months’s Shadows has offered.
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