Three Assassin's Creed games in the works

Ubisoft has three Assassin's Creed games in the works right now, and Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says the rotating teams will help them keep each one "appealing and fresh."

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Whether you like it or not, Assassin's Creed is an annualized franchise, and will remain so until audiences stop being interested in stabbing people square in the face. You have to give the people what they want, right? All the same, it can be jarring to hear Ubisoft talk about its rolling stream of assassin games so frankly, mentioning three are in development right now.

"We are making sure the teams who are creating the different iterations have enough time—two years, three years, so that they can take risk and they can change the concept enough so that it can be appealing and fresh," Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot told Kotaku. "Our job is to make sure the teams have enough power, enough energy and enough time to take the necessary steps to create a high quality game."

He said that changing some significant aspect of the game on a regular basis has kept the series successful, so Ubisoft simply tries to make sure the rolling teams have enough time and energy to innovate. Of course, it no doubt helps that Assassin's Creed games tend to be among the most widely dispersed workload in the industry, with several Ubi's many studios pitching in, in some capacity.

The series still brings in sales, as even the flawed Assassin's Creed 3 brought in a new company sales records. But that was ostensibly the last of a trilogy, so it's difficult to say how it will pay off for Ubisoft to have two more in the pipe before we know how thirsty players are for this year's assassinating adventure.

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    June 14, 2013 12:45 PM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Three Assassin's Creed games in the works.

    Ubisoft has three Assassin's Creed games in the works right now, and Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says the rotating teams will help them keep each one "appealing and fresh."

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      June 14, 2013 1:31 PM

      not surprising. they are working on 4 for october, another vita exclusive that we know from E3 and then likely next years.

      also was it really a trilogy? was there really a conclusion to the out of animus story at the end of 3?

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      June 14, 2013 1:42 PM

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        June 14, 2013 1:46 PM

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        June 14, 2013 2:24 PM

        Future Tokyo

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          June 14, 2013 4:52 PM

          Ancient Tokyo, not samurai that sucks

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        June 14, 2013 2:27 PM

        biblical times but you play as jesus and the apostles are your fellow assassin's.

      • gmd legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury mega
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        June 14, 2013 3:32 PM

        Persia

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        June 14, 2013 4:33 PM

        i just want one set in modern times. like watchdogs but you get to kill people as the objective.

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        June 14, 2013 4:35 PM

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        June 14, 2013 4:38 PM

        Future something

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        June 14, 2013 4:46 PM

        The era in which they come up with a new IP.

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        June 15, 2013 12:33 AM

        Jurassic Park

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        June 15, 2013 4:09 AM

        Qin Dynasty China, Genghis Khan-era Mongolia, and fuck it let's do the Mayan Empire.

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        June 15, 2013 4:46 AM

        Two weeks ago Thursday.

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        June 15, 2013 6:08 AM

        One of those is definitely going to be Vikings - they are going to cram ship combat into everything they can.

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        June 15, 2013 6:19 AM

        Golden Age Amsterdam, because I live there.
        Ancient Greece during the Peloponnesian War (Athene, Sparta and Corinth).
        China during either the Three Kingdoms era or the period where the Ming dynasty changed into the Qing dynasty.
        The Aztec or Maya kingdoms.

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      June 14, 2013 2:21 PM

      * G U I T A R H E R O ' D *

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        June 14, 2013 3:32 PM

        you mean *c a l l o f d o o t y'd*

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        June 14, 2013 6:37 PM

        Yup, they are going to suck it dry and run it into the ground.

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      June 14, 2013 3:19 PM

      The thing i like about games being made by multiple studios is that you only have to buy from the studio you like, and skip the other ones. that way you're not opening your wallet every year.

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      June 14, 2013 4:28 PM

      This news is about as surprising as news that the sun will rise tomorrow.

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      June 14, 2013 5:09 PM

      I remember when AC first came out and everybody enjoyed the fact it was a new IP and not another sequel.

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      June 15, 2013 12:51 AM

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