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6. Assassin’s Creed’s “Soft Reboot”

Mentioned on a June podcast from prolific leaker and Bloomberg writer Jason Schreier, he revealed 2022's Assassin's Creed from Ubisoft Sofia has actually been cancelled as a standalone title with a new name, and instead folded into a sizeable expansion for Assassin's Creed: Valhalla.

The reason is down to Ubisoft wanting to create a notable "departure" from what Assassin's Creed is right now, and make something even "bigger", tying into a detailed leak from March that mentioned how the next AC could feature seven environments in total, from around Europe.

Apparently taking place across "a Greek island, an [Italian] city named Ragusa" and various other areas, this leak also noted a late 1100s setting, and the return of Altair as a character.

Regardless of what happens though, we do know that Layla Hassan's story is all but complete. Valhalla had her body slowly dying in the real world, while her consciousness met up with Desmond in his new form as the "Reader" - a character searching for an "optimum timeline" that lets all of humanity survive a global apocalypse.

Yes, Assassin's Creed fiction has finally come full circle, but with both main characters of the last 14 years in one place, and leaks pointing to something new, it seems the future of Assassin's Creed is something else entirely.