Assassin's Creed May Stay Hidden in 2017, Too

Ubisoft's in the process of rebooting the Assassin's Creed franchise, and while it's padding the time with a remastered version of Ezio's collection this year, there's no guarantee that it will drop a new entry in 2017. Speaking with IGN, Tommy François admitted that the series – along with Far Cry – may be taking a longer hiatus than expected.

"I'll tell you what, we believe alpha for these games needs to be one year before release," the VP of Editorial [No idea either - Ed] admitted. "We're trying to achieve that. That's super f****** blunt, I don't even know if I'm allowed to say this. This is the goal we're going for: alpha one year before, more quality, more polish. So if this means biting the [bullet] and not having an Assassin's game, or a Far Cry [in 2017], f*** it."

François clarified that he meant internal alpha builds, which perhaps suggests that the new Assassin's Creed is not quite at that stage yet – and potentially not even close. We don't think that this is necessarily a bad thing, however – there have been a lot of Assassin's Creed games over the past five or so years, and the series deserves a little rest.