A not-insignificant a part of the Ubisoft Forward livestream tonight was devoted to Assassin’s Creed. To have a good time the doughty action-adventure’s fifteenth anniversary, senior group developer Alice Terrett was joined by a, to his credit score, very excited Danny “it is the Daddy” Wallace, to put out an nearly MCU-like timeline of each Assassin’s Creed factor taking place for the following good whereas. It contains new DLC for Valhalla, and a mysterious horror-ish tease. But prime of the listing, after subsequent 12 months’s extra trad and compact Assassin’s Creed Mirage, is Assassin’s Creed: Codename Red, the following massive flagship open-world RPG for the sequence. And it is set in feudal Japan.

It’s one of the vital requested and long-awaited settings for an Assassin’s Creed sport, and Ubisoft mentioned we are going to “stay a really highly effective shinobi fantasy” in Codename Red. Not a lot else is thought at this stage – the tease was a couple of seconds lengthy and confirmed a personality perching on a roof in entrance of a sundown, so roofs and the solar confirmed, I suppose – not even a launch window. The sport is coming from Ubisoft Quebec, the studio behind Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, which is respectable information ‘cos I actually favored Odyssey. Expect an enormous open world that you just will not 100% earlier than you die, most likely.

The different attention-grabbing tease was for one more flagship sport, this time being developed at Ubisoft Montreal. This is “a really completely different kind of Assassin’s Creed sport”, apparently, and the scant teaser trailer for this confirmed an AC brand normal out of twigs and cord, hanging from a department in a spooky forest. This, too, solely has a codename: Hexe (pronounced “heck-say”). The title and the tease collectively lead me to imagine it is a horror-y witch sport. At least, I shall be very shocked if it is a feel-good romcom. The undertaking is being led by Clint Hocking, he of Splinter Cell, Far Cry 2 and extra lately Watch Dogs: Legion.

Elsewhere there’s an upcoming open-world cellular sport (Codename Jade, set in China), and (although the final DLC was positioned as end-game content material) but extra end-game content material for Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. Although I really feel fairly assured in saying this actually is the very last thing, as a result of it is known as The Last Chapter. It’s a three-quest arc to tie up a few of the storylines in the principle sport, as Eivor begins to really feel the decision to new journey.

There was a small replace confirming that the Assassin’s Creed TV present they’re creating with Netflix continues to be happening, beneath showrunner Jeb Stuart (who’s, and I am unable to imagine I’m saying this, one of many writers of Die Hard). The mysterious Infinity has raised its head once more too, with clarification that it’s “not a sport, per se”, however that Codenames Red and Hexe will each be related to it by some means. And, in fact, the down-low on Mirage, a extra streamlined AC sport that is going again to the sequence’ roots for the massive 1-5 anniversary subsequent 12 months.