Here we are again with a bucket of new info about a Ubisoft game that wasn’t supposed to get out. This time, the leaks are about Assassin’s Creed Hexe, an upcoming game in the series that has only been vaguely described as a “darker” installment through official channels.
All of the new details come from a well-known Ubisoft leaker who goes by “Rogue” and has been compiled on the GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit. According to Rogue, Hexe will primarily focus on Würzburg, Germany at the time of the witch trials in 1625. Surrounding areas will be available to explore too, but it sounds like the bulk of the game will take place in the city.
Nothing in Rogue’s leak narrows down a release date for Hexe. Ubisoft announced the game in 2022 and hasn’t really said much about it since then. Technically, the title is still a codename, so for all we know it could be given a new name whenever Ubisoft decides to finally talk about it.
Clint Hocking, a Ubisoft veteran who worked on the original Splinter Cell and Watch Dogs: Legion, was Hexe’s creative director until he left earlier this year. At the time, a Ubisoft spokesperson told PC Gamer that Jean Guesdon, head of content for the Assassin’s Creed brand, would replace him. Last month, Hexe also lost its game director Benoit Richer. IGN caught that Richer updated his LinkedIn with a new job and didn’t hear anything from Ubisoft about who would be replacing him.
While Ubisoft is busy pitching everyone on the Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake coming in July, it hasn’t said a word about what’s going on with Hexe. You’d think that one of the two upcoming games would have more than a logo going for it, but here we are. The other new game, Invictus, also recently had a leak that Ubisoft claimed was “heavily altered (most probably with AI),” from a private test. If the leaks continue at this rate, Ubisoft is going to have to create a hall of fame for all the Assassin’s Creed games that qualify as “gaming’s worst-kept secret”.
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