Rumours suggest that Ubisoft has recently cancelled an E3 style reveal event that would have announced a brand new 2.5D Prince Of Persia.
There’s not going to be a physical E3 event this year and it’s still unclear if there’ll be a digital one, so big publishers are having to organise their own equivalents and there’s just been a major leak about Ubisoft’s one.
According to the provenly reliable Tom Henderson at Xfire, Ubisoft was planning a major online event relatively soon but has cancelled those plans because of ‘recent world events’ – presumably the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It’s unclear whether it will be rescheduled but Henderson claims to have details of a number of new, unannounced Ubisoft games that would have been featured and which are still likely to be unveiled sometime this year.
Immortals Fenyx Rising appeared to sell poorly when it was released in December 2020, despite being one of Ubisoft’s best reviewed games of recent years, but supposedly the publisher is ‘pleased’ with its performance and a sequel is currently in development for an unknown release date.
Another big surprise is a secondnew Prince Of Persia, beyond the already delayed remake of Sands Of Time – which now doesn’t even have an estimated release date. The new game is supposedly a 2.5D platformer that takes inspiration from the Ori series from Moon Studios, although again there’s not even a hint of when it’s due to be released.
Also not mentioned until now is The Crew 3, which was leaked last year as DLC but is now apparently a full game codenamed Project Orlando. There’s no details on it though and again no estimated release date.
The release date for the previously announced Splinter Cell remake is said not to be until 2024 ‘at the
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