Yesterday, Ubisoft issued a press release about the way forward for the Murderer’s Creed collection, and the writer’s feedback included fairly a giant shock: there are at the moment no new remakes of the collection’ previous video games within the works.
“One factor we wish to be clear about at the moment is that we at the moment don’t have any different Murderer’s Creed remake actively in improvement,” Ubisoft said in a statement on its website. “Our groups are already targeted on the subsequent chapter of Murderer’s Creed titles, together with initiatives you have not heard about but, that includes new settings and tales.”
This has come as a shock to some gamers as a result of, back in 2024, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot specifically mentioned that upcoming remakes – plural – have been in energetic improvement throughout Ubisoft studios. “Firstly, gamers may be enthusiastic about some remakes, which can enable us to revisit a number of the video games we have created up to now and modernise them; there are worlds in a few of our older Assassin’s Creed games which can be nonetheless extraordinarily wealthy,” Guillemot stated.
Given the success of this 12 months’s Black Flag Resynced – which sold over 3.5 million copies and “exceeded annual expectations within its first 14 days” – it is fascinating to listen to Ubisoft transfer away from what clearly appeared a preferred approach of revisiting older video games. However it’s price noting that though Ubisoft is not at the moment engaged on remakes, that does not imply we can’t get them sooner or later sooner or later.
“Like a lot of you, we love the concept of revisiting our traditional titles, and we’ll preserve exploring alternatives to carry older titles again,” the corporate’s assertion continued. “That door stays open as a result of, in any case… Nothing is true, the whole lot is permitted.” That final bit, if you happen to’re unfamiliar, is a commonly-repeated motto amongst the Murderer Order.
In the event you’re interested in what’s subsequent for the franchise, we have got a couple of concepts. First, there’s ‘Codename Invictus‘, which is billed as a “PvP multiplayer Murderer’s Creed expertise” being led by a crew of For Honor veterans at Ubisoft Montreal. The title stays shrouded in thriller, and we have seen nothing of how the sport will look or play but.
Then there’s Murderer’s Creed Hexe, in improvement at Ubisoft Montreal. This sport is touted as a “darker, narrative-driven” expertise that seemed to be aiming for a sixteenth century European setting when it was announced back in 2022. It was initially believed to be concentrating on a 2026 launch, but earlier this year, Ubisoft head of franchise Jean Guesdon defined the writer is “taking the time to ship on its bold imaginative and prescient, which implies we’ll be quiet for somewhat longer”. Following this, a report emerged in August stating that Hexe is still at least a year away.
The Murderer’s Creed collection stays a pillar of Ubisoft’s output, even when the writer has been enduring a whole lot of change currently. Late final 12 months, the leader of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Marc-Alexis Côté, left Ubisoft. This coincided with a reorganisation of the corporate and the creation of the Vantage Studios subsidiary, established by Ubisoft and Tencent, to oversee development of the French publisher’s biggest franchises, which incorporates Murderer’s Creed.