The Brotherhood, history, and open-world stealth.
Masterpiece
Ubisoft rebuilds a beloved pirate adventure from the keel up, and the result somehow makes one of the best Assassin's Creed games even better.
Title Update 1.0.8 lets you replay up to five times with Edward’s gear, money and the Kenway fleet, while Nightmare Mode has enemies deal 1.8x damage.
Ubisoft’s Fall 2026 Update also says no other Assassin’s Creed remake is in active development, and Codename Hexe’s next major update comes in 2027.
The official Assassin’s Creed podcast traces the French Crown Jewels from 1792 to 2025, then tests Chronicles: China’s Great Wall.
The 7 Fingers’ acrobatic show lists 16 performances at Place des Arts through December 20, then moves to the Casino de Paris in January.
VIZ’s official prequel manga continues the Assassins’ fight for Iga in a 208-page volume priced at $14.99, with a digital edition also listed.
Update 1.0.7 brings cosmetic toggles and fixes for stealth, fast travel, and Steam Deck HDR.
Black Flag Resynced leans on PS5 Pro ray tracing, PSSR upscaling, and a rebuilt physically based ocean to make its Caribbean and the Jackdaw feel newly alive.
Black Flag Resynced's first patch tackles 30 FPS cutscenes and a list of bugs, after a Ubisoft Connect outage briefly made the always-online PC version unplayable.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced sold 2 million copies on day one and set a franchise Steam concurrency record, marking a major win for Ubisoft.
With Black Flag Resynced out, the Assassin's Creed roadmap turns to the darker Hexe, the PvP-focused Invictus, mobile's Jade, and a Netflix series.
Assassin's Creed Shadows moved into a final support phase in 2026 with the Claws of Awaji expansion adding a new region, plus a Nintendo Switch 2 release.
The $199.99 collector's edition of Black Flag Resynced packs a 31cm Edward Kenway figure, a leather logbook, a steelbook, and a brooch for series collectors.
Black Flag Resynced removed the original's present-day storyline and folded in Ubisoft's live-service Animus Hub, with a cosmetic store and battle pass drawing scrutiny.
Black Flag Resynced rebuilds the pirate classic with ray tracing, modernized parkour and stealth, reworked naval combat, and roughly six hours of new story content.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, a ground-up remake of the 2013 classic, launched July 9 and became the highest-rated series entry since the original Black Flag.
