Ubisoft’s Victorian era stealth ‘em up will be hitting the Epic Games Store on February 20, bringing the ninth game in the main series to cheapskates on PC.

Ubisoft is the AAA game studio in the industry today due to their entire business model being based on massive live service sandboxes. With more hits than misses in their arsenal, the company always has something cooking away in one of its many kitchens and after a bit of a quiet period in the latter half of 2019, they’ve got some big plans for 2020 and beyond.

There have been multiple, pervasive rumours that the next Assassin’s Creed game would feature Vikings, and would be called Ragnarok. While initial screens of the game were proven false, they’re rumours that just won’t go away. Hints in The Division 2, and suggestions by Kotaku (which align with some things we’ve heard) suggest that we’ll soon be playing as Vikings …

Look at us! Who would have thought that after eleven months of lows, middles and incredible highs we’d up here? Not me! The year, she is almost over like Grover. After a few months that included the likes of Pokémon, Star Wars and Death Stranding, December is usually the cigarette you light up as you bask in the afterglow of a hot and steamy session with big budget games.

For ages now, it’s been rumoured that the next Assassin’s Creed game will give us a look at the Vikings. It’s interchangeably been called Kingdom and Assassin’s Creed Ragnarok – though it’s likely one of them is a codename and the other is the name of the game. Earlier “screenshots” of the game were proven fake, but the rumours have persisted. While Ubisoft hasn’t confirmed anything of the sort, I’d put money down that the rumours are on the money, and that we’ll see a Viking-based Assassin’s Creed next year.

Making a game and then slyly using heavier themes to market said product means that Ubisoft can and should be criticised for their PR sleight of hand, because this is a company that knows all too well what will sell and how they’ll push it out so that all eyeballs will be focused on their product. Nobody knows this more than the Ubi-Boss himself, Yves Guillemot.

The long awaited next entry in the beloved stealth franchise is reportedly in development, just don’t expect it to play like any of the others. Don’t know if you remember this, but a while back Facebook spent a load of cash on acquiring Oculus, the company most notable for what is arguably the most well-known implementation of virtual reality. It …

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is one of my favourite games of the last year. It’s an already expansive game, with its core story and its voluminous DLC offering hundreds of hours of entertainment. Just yesterday, the game received the Torment of Hades DLC that sends “players to the Underworld, a vast world of endless gloom filled with the wandering dead, ruled by the sharp and cunning Hades.”