After years worth of all of that, and this, and that, and the other thing, they've just randomly decided now's the time to acknowledge it. Years of silence, and then like a well-timed broadside, boom:pic.twitter.com/IRDhrgCPAp — Assassin's Creed (@assassinscreed) January 28, 2026 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsWhy now, in response to a seemingly random bloke selling an Edward Kenway-shaped plastic trinket on Vinted? Well, a man of the sea can only assume the publishers' recent raft of cancellations and delays, which reportedly included the Black Flag remake being pushed back into the financial year ending March 2027, factor in. Immense and unforgiveable brutality, intercut with the promise of goods people might treasure conveyed in a manner so strange you can scarcely believe.