One of the best Assassins Creed games might get a remake very soon

Ubisoft is potentially ready to sail the high seas again.

The French gaming giant published its latest financial earnings this week, and while there's lots of interesting business-y stuff going on in there, one minor detail stands out: the presence of an unannounced title that is set to launch by March 31, 2026 at the latest. Insider Gaming reports that this is going to be a remake of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, originally released in 2013 and pretty much universally regarded as one of the top titles in the long-running series.

Insider Gaming has been on this beat for a while now, having published previous exclusive reports about this remake. Aside from general visual and quality-of-life upgrades you would expect from a remake, it's apparently also going to take Black Flag in a more RPG-like direction, a la recent entries like Shadows. One unfortunate (depending on your perspective) rumor is that it's going to minimize or even do away entirely with the modern-day frame story sections of Black Flag. Once a major part of Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft has been shying away from those elements for a while now, seemingly unable to or uninterested in pushing them forward narratively.

Of course, this is not officially confirmed yet, so it's possible it winds up not happening. Still, it would be nice to return to the piratical shenanigans of Black Flag.