Ubisoft might have shifted Assassin’s Creed‘s release schedule to a biannual approach, as the French company doesn’t want to follow Call of Duty’s footsteps.

Multiple franchises seem to get a new title each year. Sports games, Call of Duty, to name a few, although the latter has Activision Blizzard rotate the development between three studios. In the PlayStation 4, Xbox One console generation that launched in 2013, Ubisoft initially launched a new Assassin’s Creed each year, starting with the cross-gen Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, followed by the PS4/X1-only Assassin’s Creed: Unity in 2014, which had more bugs than sales at launch. This might have been the wake-up call for Yves Guillemot.

Last year, the French publisher released Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, which already has its DLC schedule for 2021. The game will be expanded over the year (and the PlayStation 5/Xbox Series might get a graphical upgrade, as we mentioned recently), so this year, the series will possibly not get a new game. But in 2022, things will change!

A French YouTuber wrote on Twitter that in 2022, a new Assassin’s Creed game will arrive by Ubisoft Sofia. This studio was in a support role for Assassin’s Creed: Origins The Curse of the Pharaohs DLC, and they also developed a smaller-budget title in 2014, namely Assassin’s Creed: Rogue (which launched on the same day as Unity, but on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360). The user says it will come in the first quarter of 2022, so not the Holiday season. This means Ubisoft could get a ton of cash at the end of the next fiscal year that starts on April 1. (However, Roberto Serrano, an industry insider, claims it will come in the second quarter of 2022, si between April and June. It was planned to come this Holiday season before the coronavirus ruined all the plans.)

Nothing is official yet, so we have yet to see if the Bulgarian developers are indeed developing a new Assassin’s Creed.

Source: TwistedVoxel