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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Remake Looks Ready to Sail Before March 2026
November 23, 2025The long-rumoured remake of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag could finally be docking before April next year. Ubisoft’s latest financial report strongly hints that the fan-favourite pirate adventure is about to make its return sooner than expected.
Buried in Ubisoft’s delayed financials, there’s a lineup of all the company’s titles set to arrive by the end of the current fiscal year, which wraps up on March 31, 2026. Among these, Ubisoft listed an “unannounced title” scheduled for the fourth quarter of their 2025-2026 fiscal year. That singular mystery box on their investor presentation has set off a wave of speculation: is this finally the Black Flag remake?
All Signs Point to Black Flag’s Return
If you’ve been following the whispers around Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, the signs couldn’t be clearer. Just earlier this year, fans got their biggest nudge when Matt Ryan, the actor behind the game’s protagonist, Edward Kenway, gave a less-than-subtle hint. Speaking to a fan, Ryan strongly implied they should be ready to replay the swashbuckling epic, dropping the kind of “wink, wink, nudge, nudge” that all but confirmed rumours of a remake. Ubisoft, clearly not amused, even threatened legal action against him for letting the cat out of the bag.
More fuel was added to the fire in September. French gaming outlet Jeuxvideo reported that the remake will ditch the original’s modern-day story sections, signalling a creative shift, or maybe just trimming the fat for a new generation.
Ubisoft’s financials offer more context: alongside the “unannounced” game, they’ve mapped out releases like Anno 117: Pax Romana (already launched with a strong 85 on Metacritic), Assassin’s Creed Mirage Valley of Memory update, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – From the Ashes expansion tied to the next film. Coming in Q4, right alongside that blank spot, are games like the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake, Rainbow Six Mobile, and The Division Resurgence. But it’s that unnamed game that has the franchise’s loyalists buzzing.
Ubisoft has yet to confirm anything officially, at least. But the context, leaks, and borderline admissions leave little doubt about their intentions.
Big Shifts Behind the Scenes
It’s not just the games seeing changes. Earlier this year, the longtime figurehead overseeing Assassin’s Creed, Marc-Alexis Côté, left Ubisoft to help form a Tencent-backed studio. Côté later clarified that while he was offered a different spot within Ubisoft, it wouldn’t have held the “same scope, mandate, or continuity” as his previous AC role. His exit marks the latest shakeup as the company pushes into a new era for its legacy franchises.
There’s no word yet from Ubisoft about what other tweaks or updates are planned for the Black Flag remake, outside of the reported removal of present-day storylines. Fans will have to wait to see how much the game will change, or how much of the pirate flavour will remain untouched.
Between actor slip-ups, silent but telling financial plans, and selective leaks, all eyes are on Ubisoft to finally pull back the curtain. For many, the big question now isn’t “if,” but just how soon they’ll be able to stalk the Caribbean as Edward Kenway all over again.
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