All the big games, reveals, and trailers from Ubisoft Forward

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If you’re the type who likes icon-saturated map games, then Ubisoft Forward — the French mega-publisher’s not-E3 event for 2023 — was basically a holiday. Monday’s showcase featured no shortage of the open-world games Ubisoft is known for, plus a handful of licensed games (appropriately Ubisoft-ified iterations of their respective franchises). From Assassin’s Creed Mirage to Star Wars Outlaws, here are all the the big announcements and reveals out of Ubisoft Forward.

Ubisoft Forward opened with two trailers for Avatars: Frontiers of Pandora, the video game spinoff of James Cameron’s bazillion-dollar sci-fi film franchise, which looks a whole lot like Far Cry: Pandora Edition in a gameplay rundown. Cameron said a few words as well, saying he always wanted to “embrace technology to find new ways outside the cinema to immerse people in this world.” Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora comes out Dec. 7 for PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X.

xDefiant, a free-to-play multiplayer shooter that’s best described as “Tom Clancy’s Smash Bros.,” will have an open session from June 21 to 23 on PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X/S. The full game will release at an unspecified date later this summer. xDefiant features a heavy live service component, with Ubisoft promising one new map per month.

Prince of Persia returns as a side-scroller with Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Ubisoft briefly highlighted gameplay during Thursday’s Summer Game Fest, but aired a more extensive clip during Ubisoft Forward, showing off the combat and time-altering mechanics of this “semi-open world” platformer. The Lost Crown is out Jan. 18, 2024, for Amazon Luna, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox