Recent Ubisoft News Doesn’t Bode Well for Future Games

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Last March, Ubisoft celebrated 36 years since its foundation all the way back in 1986, when the five Guillemot brothers decided to get into the game development industry after their other successful projects. In time, Ubisoft became one of the biggest companies in the industry, publishing and producing top-quality games, with some of them enduring the test of time and remaining popular decades since their release. Over the past few years, Ubisoft started piling up several major projects, such as the licensed Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, more titles within the Assassin's Creed universe, and the recently re-revealed Skull and Bones.

However, the latest news regarding the various upcoming video games that the company is working on is not encouraging, and it even poses questions as to what is going on behind the scenes. Although Ubisoft does have a history of delays and uncertain release dates for games, something that the company has been dealing with increasingly more often in recent times, one of the most unsettling rumors comes from one of the gaming giant's own developers. In fact, a report indicates that Skull and Bones may be lacking depth in its gameplay and that it could be far from the big hit that Ubisoft hopes it will be.

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The streak doesn't end nor begin with Skull and Bones, however, as Ubisoft's work on the so-called Project Rift, which was set to be a DLC for Assassin's Creed Valhalla and then became a standalone title, is seemingly running behind schedule. In the earnings report for the company, it was stated that a «smaller unannounced premium game» would fall behind, and it would need to be delayed to next year, which is likely referring to the