10 Real Video Game Leaks Everyone Thought Were Fake

10. Assassin's Creed Is Becoming A Pirate Sim

There are many important staples in the Assassin's Creed franchise: annoying parkour movement that constantly sticks you to the wrong object, present day gameplay sequences that nobody wants, and, in recent years, bloated storylines that should really have been told in half the time.

But another important staple that nobody really talks about? The leaks.

It really shouldn't count as a proper Assassin's Creed game if it doesn't leak out ahead of time. Pretty much every entry in the series has leaked in one way or another - the existence of Revelations was extracted from an Ubisoft Facebook post, while Odyssey was outed thanks to an officially-licensed keyring - but the leak behind 2013's Black Flag is arguably the strangest.

In a January 2013 Reddit post, a user claimed to have overheard two marketing people, sat in a cafe, discussing an Assassin's Creed project called Black Flag. This Redditor provided no pictures or videos - the only "proof" they had was their word.

Needless to say, it's quite hard to believe random internet users who have zero credibility, so a lot of people doubted the leak. However, it turns out that eavesdropping on people in cafes is a rewarding venture, because the game - as we now know - launched in November 2013, and it was pretty damn awesome too.