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A little bit of paintings from the long-rumored Assassin’s Creed Mirage appeared to leak final evening. Then this morning, Ubisoft lastly confirmed that the sport is actual, perhaps sooner than it had meant to make the official reveal. It’s fairly a leaky ship over there.
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Late yesterday, a bit of paintings that gave the impression to be associated to an upcoming entry in Ubisoft’s long-running stealth-action sequence popped up on-line. Sporting an “Assassin’s Creed Mirage” emblem, it depicts a white-hooded determine staring down a shadowy type wielding a curved sword. The precise context is unclear, however it’s doable the leaked picture is tied to future downloadable content material deliberate for the just-announced sport.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage, beforehand codenamed “Rift,” is the follow-up to 2020’s viking-themed Valhalla. Set in ninth century Baghdad and initially deliberate as an growth to Valhalla, Mirage will put Valhalla supporting character Basim Ibn Ishaq within the lead position, function a extra condensed world to discover, and focus totally on stealth gameplay.
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Many of those deets have been already uncovered by Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier in February, with Schreier purporting that the sport will land someday in spring 2023. Now, between the leaked picture and Ubisoft’s official announcement tweet, we’ve obtained our first glimpse at what Mirage will appear like, and whereas it isn’t a lot but, it a minimum of seems to be like quintessential Assassin’s Creed.
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As you may see within the photos above, the leaked artwork exhibits our hooded murderer outfitted with a brief sword and the long-lasting hidden blade. They are standing in what seems to be a sandy crypt of some type, getting ready to face off in opposition to somebody with a curved sword. Emblazoned over one of many photos is the textual content “The Forty Thieves Quest,” which refers to a Middle Eastern fable a couple of prince taking revenge in opposition to Mongol invaders.
The fashion of the leaked picture is similar to the fashion Ubisoft has beforehand used for promotional paintings tied to DLCs in different Assassin’s Creed video games, akin to Valhalla’s The Legacy of Beowulf. It’s the kind of picture you’d see promoting add-on content material on an Ubisoft sport’s official retailer web page.
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Some imagine Ubisoft itself unintentionally leaked the paintings via its retailer. On the opposite hand, an trade Schreier had with somebody on Twitter suggests the leak might have been the work of some exterior get together. Either approach, Ubisoft is cracking down on the leaked piece of paintings, issuing takedown notices and scrubbing it from the web as quick as it might. You know the way that goes, although.
In any case, it’s doable the picture leaking late final evening is the rationale Ubisoft determined to formally verify Assassin’s Creed Mirage’s existence, setting, and protagonist this morning, 10 days forward of the sport’s deliberate look within the Ubisoft Forward presentation on September 10 at 3 p.m. ET.
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When reached for remark, a Ubisoft consultant merely pointed Kotaku to its official tweet as affirmation of Mirage’s existence.
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Mirage isn’t the one Assassin’s Creed sport Ubisoft is engaged on proper now. The studio can also be growing a live-service venture codenamed Infinity, which is able to reportedly function totally different however interconnected Assassin’s Creed video games, with ongoing content material updates including extra settings and timelines. However, different particulars have been revealed about this venture as of but.