Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced announced in most boring way possible

Ubisoft is giving Sony a run for their money, in terms of the least exciting way to make a major announcement, as the Black Flag remake is finally confirmed.

We seem to have said it a lot lately but there is a dispiriting lack of showmanship to the video games industry at the moment. From Nintendo repeatedly not giving people what they want, in the form of a new first party Direct, to Sony’s increasingly lazy news announcements, publishers are becoming almost allergic to any sort of fanfare.

A remake of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag has been an open secret for years but after all that build-up the final, official announcement is a single image in a blog post that doesn’t even mention the game – posted late in the afternoon, just as everyone is going home (in Europe at least, where Ubisoft are based).

The blog in question is about everything that’s happening with Assassin’s Creed in 2026 but doesn’t talk about Black Flag Resynced at all, almost as if the image was added by accident. That may mean it’s not due out this year, though, which is exactly what the most recent rumours suggested.

Instead of Black Flag, the blog talks about the one year anniversary of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, with the annoucement that support for the game is being wound down, but there’s still ‘a few surprises’ left before the end.

It’s assumed, although Ubisoft has never quite confirmed it, that the next mainline entry will be what is currently known as Codename HEXE. It’s believed to involve witch hunts in medieval Germany and while the blog doesn’t confirm that it does promise a ‘unique, darker, narrative-driven Assassin’s Creed experience, set during a pivotal moment in history.’

According to Ubisoft you won’t hear anything more about it for ‘a little longer’ but its inclusion in the blog seems to imply that a 2026 release is a possibility. Although the director did recently exit the company, so that’s likely to have put it back a bit.

There’s also Codename INVICTUS, which the blog describes as a PvP multiplayer experience. Rumours have spoken of a troubled development and compared it to Fall Guys, of all things, but the blog seems to refute this, insisting it ‘isn’t quite what the rumours have suggested.’

They don’t say what it actually is though and while there’s brief references to mobile game Assassin’s Creed Jade and ‘bringing co-op back to Assassin’s Creed’ there’s no details on that either.

After a brief mention of a planned live action series, the blog ends with the annoucement of a free 60fps patch for 2014’s Assassin’s Creed Unity on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

That’s very welcome but the whole reveal is so half-hearted it’s hard to get excited about it any of it, when there’s no real detail and no trailers or even proper screenshots.

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