If you’re unaware that, somewhere in the bowels of Ubisoft’s offices, an unannounced Black Flag remake is almost certainly bubbling away, then congratulations on waking from your coma.
It’s perhaps the most open secret in videogames right now, spoiled ahead of time by everything from age rating boards to anonymous sources to its own lead actor, Matt Ryan—who subsequently told a different fan pressing him for info that’d say nothing more, because “the company threatened to sue me”.
I guess Ubi’s loosened up since then, because the official Assassin’s Creed X account is now posting GTA memes about yet another possible leak. AC fan account Zephryss posted images of a statuette of Black Flag protagonist Edward Kenway, writing that it “might be the new Edward Kenway figurine for the Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Remake” and had been found by fans on second-hand site Vinted.
Still, I do feel a bit bad for Matt Ryan (who was really quite good as OG Black Flag’s beautifully Welsh protagonist): he gets an angry letter from the lawyers while others get a CJ meme.
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