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6. Assassin's Creed 2020 Will Be Viking-Themed

Assassin S Creed Vikings
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There's probably no major AAA franchise more prone to "leaks" than Assassin's Creed, which reliably has its setting spoiled ahead of an official announcement almost every year without fail.

And though Ubisoft smartly won't be releasing a new entry into the series in 2019, the 2020 game is obviously already deep into development, with recent confirmation that it will be Viking-themed.

The first whiff came from an Easter egg in The Division 2, which seemed to not-so-subtly imply a link between Assassin's Creed and Vikings, and Kotaku's Jason Schreier independently confirmed with two sources that the game, codenamed Assassin's Creed Kingdom, is indeed Viking-centric in nature.

It goes without saying that such an evocative setting has a ludicrous amount of potential for the franchise, because who doesn't want to command their own Viking longship and violently drive their enemies before them?

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