Next Assassin’s Creed game will be a Valhalla spin-off starring Basim claims leak

metro.co.uk:

Ubisoft has reportedly turned an Assassin’s Creed Valhalla expansion into a standalone game, to fill the gap before Assassin’s Creed Infinity.

There was a time when a new Assassin’s Creed game was released every year, but Assassin’s Creed Valhalla launched in 2020 and Ubisoft is still releasing DLC for it, with no sign of a brand new game.

The mysterious Assassin’s Creed Infinity, rumoured to be a live service title, is meant to be the future of the franchise but thanks to the pandemic and the controversy over Ubisoft’s workplace conditions it doesn’t seem as if it’ll be released anytime soon.

To tide them over, a new Bloomberg report suggests that they’ve repurposed a planned Valhalla expansion into a standalone game codenamed Rift, which will have you playing as Basim Ibn Ishaq.

According to Bloomberg’s sources, the game will be more focused on stealth than recent entries and, given it started life as an expansion, will be smaller in scope – something many might see as a positive given how bloated some of the other games have got in recent years.

The game is predicted to be released later this year or in 2023 and is intended to shore up a rapidly thinning release schedule for Ubisoft, beyond just the Assassin’s Creed franchise.

Although Ubisoft launched Rainbow Six Extraction earlier in the year, currently the only other game with a confirmed release date is PC title The Settlers, although Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora and Mario + Rabbids Spark Of Hope are also supposed to be out at some point in 2022.

The fate of long-awaited titles such as Skull & Bones, Beyond Good And Evil 2, and the Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time remake are still uncertain though, with constant delays leaving many to fear that the first two may