10 Best Video Game Reveals You Had To Find Yourself

A staple of the Assassin's Creed games is following two interconnected stories in each game: one taking place in the ever-changing historical era unique to each main entry, and another set in the modern day. Another staple of the Assassin's Creed games is that pretty much everyone agrees that the modern-day stories are boring and unnecessary.

And yet, Ubisoft keep making them.

Probably the most forgettable of these is in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. I don't know how anyone thought it was a good idea to randomly rip the player out of their Caribbean pirate adventure to cast them as a mid-level office worker reading emails, but Ubisoft is just weird like that.

Among these emails was a seemingly spam brochure, sent to the villainous Abstergo corporation at the heart of every Assassin's Creed game, by a company called Blume, advertising their new operating system.

It wasn't for another year that Ubisoft launched their new series, Watch Dogs, which focuses on a group of activist hackers combating Blume and their omni-present OS. It was a novel way of announcing that these two franchises exist in the same universe, and one that most only noticed many years later in hindsight.