Ubisoft suck at keeping a secret. It's long had a problem with leaks, and the Assassin's Creed series has probably suffered more from that than its other series. Even Ubisoft has joked about Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced being "gaming's worst kept secret" following leak after leak. Much like the Age of Piracy in Black Flag, Ubisoft's age of leaks isn't over either.
Just yesterday, YouTuber xJ0nathan posted on X a supposed screenshot of Assassin's Creed's (codenamed) Invictus, a dedicated multiplayer spinoff. Honestly, there's not even much in the image to go off, just a character holding two weapons in an untextured liminal space. It's kinda exactly what you'd expect from a very, very early look at an Assassin's Creed game.
The official Assassin's Creed Twitter account responded to this leak, saying: "Nice try." While Ubisoft notes that the image "might have started as an image from our private test", it's since been "heavily altered (most probably with AI)."
If you're going to leak, do it well, I guess, as this hasn't got Ubisoft's stamp of approval: "Not great to spread misinformation."
Now, with little actual information on the game to go off, Ubisoft has promised updates on the project in the future, saying that "those genuinely curious" will hear more "when the time is right".
xJ0nathan has since followed up the original leak with a new, similar image that supposedly doesn't have any AI alterations, though there are some inconsistencies between the two images.
Either way, I'm all for a dedicated Assassin's Creed multiplayer game. Ever since its removal after Black Flag (there was co-op multiplayer in Unity, mind), I've missed its unique brand of social-stealth PvP.
