'Ah S***, Here We Go Again' — Ubisoft Finally Acknowledges Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Remake Leak, Responds With GTA Meme

Ubisoft has yet acknowledged the never-ending deluge of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake leaks, aft yet different slip-up.

Earlier this week, a collectible statue featuring the game's leader Edward Kenway bizarrely popped up for merchantability connected utilized covering app Vinted. The point appeared to beryllium the under-wraps tie-in teased past twelvemonth by merchandise shaper Pure Arts — and now, Ubisoft has efficaciously confirmed that this is the case.

Writing connected Twitter / X, Ubisoft utilized its authoritative Assassin's Creed relationship to respond to the archetypal station that shared photos of said statue, replying with the classical GTA San Andreas meme showing that game's protagonist Carl Johnson wearily stating: "Ah s***, present we spell again."

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The statue's quality online follows a hint by collectible institution Pure Arts past twelvemonth suggesting it had thing successful the works for Black Flag which would aboveground successful the not-too-distant aboriginal arsenic "there is thing going on." Its Vinted listing gave nary hint to its origins, though stated that it was owed for merchandise successful 2026. A elaborate close-up of the statue's basal shown successful photos displayed logos for Ubisoft and Pure Arts, with a copyright people registered for 2026.

With this present retired there, alongside everything other that has leaked astir the game, it's possibly unsurprising that Ubisoft has present fixed up pretending there's thing going on. While intelligibly a humorous response, this besides marks the archetypal clip Ubisoft has ever commented connected thing to bash with the Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake, contempt a long, agelong drawstring of reports and leaks surrounding its existance.

Perhaps the astir notable confirmation of the task came from Edward Kenway's ain dependable actor, who initially teased the task earlier aboriginal suggesting he'd been told by Ubisoft successful nary uncertain presumption to halt talking. Finally, past month, the crippled popped up connected the PEGI European ratings committee website revealing what looks to beryllium its last title: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced.

Officially, Ubisoft has lone referred to the game's impending motorboat by acknowledging it had an unannounced crippled owed to get earlier the extremity of its existent fiscal twelvemonth connected March 31. Last week, however, this crippled was past delayed into the coming fiscal twelvemonth (ending March 31, 2027) owed to the company's large caller reshuffle of teams, projects and studios.

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