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Reports from the French source, Origami, suggest that Ubisoft has discontinued work on a planned multiplayer game within the Assassin’s Creed franchise. This decision affects a project known internally as ‘AC League’, which was initially meant to be an addition to Assassin’s Creed Shadows.<\/p>\n
Originating from Ubisoft Annecy, the abandoned co-op project was designed to support up to four players collaborating as assassins to complete various missions. It was part of a now-cancelled season pass for Assassin’s Creed Shadows.<\/p>\n
The season pass’s cancellation followed the rescheduling of Shadows’ release from November 2024 to February 2025, leaving Claws of Awaji as the sole expansion, which debuted last September.<\/p>\n
Origami depicted AC League as “fairly ambitious” and intended to establish a foundation for future multiplayer developments in the series. However, concerns regarding extended development time prompted leaders to pivot towards a more modest standalone title using elements from Shadows.<\/p>\n
Despite an anticipated invite-only alpha slated for May 2026, the Annecy team was reportedly notified just last week about the termination of the project due to financial restructuring within Ubisoft.<\/p>\n
As part of these changes, six games, including the remake of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, have been cancelled, with seven more postponed and Ubisoft Stockholm closing its doors.<\/p>\n
Origami noted that a “handful” of Annecy employees would carry forward the technical innovations from this project into the Anvil game engine. Nonetheless, IGN highlighted that more than 25% of Annecy’s workforce of 270 now faces uncertainty, with potential job cuts looming.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, last week Ubisoft announced a voluntary redundancy scheme aiming to reduce its Paris head office workforce by 200 roles, equating to 18% of its staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credit: Ubisoft Reports from the French source, Origami, suggest that Ubisoft has discontinued work on a planned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[155091,111,139,69,145,46560],"class_list":{"0":"post-275099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-canceled-games","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-ubisoft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}