Assassin’s Creed may be Ubisoft’s priority at the moment but a new leak suggests they’re revaluating the Far Cry series, before the next game. 2024 has not been kind to Ubisoft. The company’s share prices has been dropping all year, Stars Wars Outlaws wasn’t as big a hit as Ubisoft wanted, and it’s already decided to pull the plug on XDefiant – just seven months after it came out.
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As such, there are serious discussions of selling the company to Tencent, while in the meantime Ubisoft seems to be putting all its eggs in the Assassin’s Creed basket. After a delay, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is out in February and it’s claimed Ubisoft intends to release 10 more Assassin’s Creed games in the next five years.
While all that’s going on, it sounds like Ubisoft is revaluating its next two Far Cry games, with a new report mentioning changes to the series formula and an internal delay. As a reminder, Ubisoft is said to be working on two separate Far Cry projects. The first is a typical sequel, Far Cry 7 (or Blackbird as it’s codenamed), while the second is a multiplayer extraction shooter spin-off codenamed Maverick.
According to Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson, both games were aiming for a 2025 launch, but his latest report on the subject claims plans have changed and they’ve been pushed back into 2026. From the sound of it, this is due to the complexities of both games’ development, with Henderson adding that Ubisoft is looking to break away from the Far Cry formula.
