Skulls & Bones has yet another launch window, kinda. According to Ubisoft, the long-awaited adventure game will be with us by March 2024, alongside Assassin's Creed Mirage, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and more. Official release dates for some of Ubisoft's most anticipated projects are also going to be revealed during Ubisoft Forward next month, although it remains to be seen if the company can stick to them this time.
Mirage and Skull & Bones are hinted at getting firmer release dates next month, with the latter recently hit with a delay. Its last release date was set for March 9, 2023, but this was delayed in January. The game was first revealed all the way back in 2017, and has since faced several delays and setbacks.
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As for Assassin's Creed Mirage, this is a little more surprising. It was only revealed last September, so getting out before March 2024, thus not ruling out a 2023 release, would be quite the turnaround. That being said, it has also been revealed that Ubisoft has around 2,000 devs working on the Assassin's Creed series right now, so that would have gone a long way in reducing development time.
On the other hand, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora might have more in common with Skull & Bones, since they both seem to have struggled during development. While Avatar was only revealed in mid-2021, it had previously been reported that the game is in a "rough shape". It was also rumoured to be launching in November 2023, before being pushed back into the 2023-24 release window.
All in all, if Ubisoft is able to actually release these games by this new deadline, then it will certainly have its work cut out for itself. On top of Mirage,
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