Video game company Ubisoft has announced a new delay in the launch of ‘Skull and Bones’. After years of anticipation and multiple extensions to its release date, the game will finally see the light of day in the early months of 2024.
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This news came during the presentation of the company’s financial results for the first half of the 2023-2024 fiscal year, while also sharing information about other games coming next year, some of which will be free to players.
‘Skull and Bones’ was first introduced at E3 in Los Angeles in 2017 with the promise of being a game set in the golden age of piracy, and was planned to be released in the fall of 2018 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 (PS4).
But months ahead of the planned release date, in June 2018, Ubisoft shared a new trailer showing off gameplay of the game and confirming the inclusion of multiplayer. Earlier this year, the company announced that it was changing its release strategy, canceling three unannounced titles and delaying ‘Skull and Bones’ once again.
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Ubisoft has confirmed that the pirate game will finally see the light of day in the last quarter of the 2023-2024 fiscal year; This means the game will be available between January and March 2024, given that its fiscal year begins in April.
In the presentation of the results, the company also highlighted its release catalog for the rest of the financial year, which includes titles such as ‘Assassin’s Creed Mirage’, ‘Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR’, ‘Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora’, ‘Just’. Dance 2024 ‘Edition’ and ‘Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown’. They also announced that free games such as ‘Rainbow Six Mobile’, ‘The Division Resurgence’ and ‘XDefiant’ will arrive on these dates.
The company also credited the success of ‘Assassin’s Creed Mirage’, whose launch was “robust thanks to good response from the community”. and the first week after launch was stated to be “in line with previous successful releases” such as ‘Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’ and ‘Assassin’s Creed Origins’.
He also said that ‘The Crew Motorfest’, which went on sale on September 14, was positioned as the ‘highest rated game of the series’ and broke the franchise record in terms of total unit sales.
Ubisoft, on the other hand, reminded that an “important agreement” was signed with Activision Blizzard in October, which will give permanent publishing rights to “‘Call of Duty'” and all the American developer’s other games for the console. PC, “and those published over the next 15 years.”
In this sense, the developer acknowledged that these rights will “further strengthen” the content that Ubisoft offers through its subscription service Ubisoft+, and may also grant licenses to third parties.
*This content was rewritten with the help of artificial intelligence, based on information published by Europa Press, and reviewed by the journalist and editor.
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