After six delays, Ubisoft's Skull & Bones finally has a release date
The seventh time is the charm, for Ubisoft's beleaguered pirate game Skull & Bones. Originally set to release in 2018--not that many years after the launch of Ubisoft's other pirate game, and primary inspiration for Skull & Bones, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag--the game would find itself delayed on six different occasions. Development for the game suffered from many causes, ranging from "toxic work culture" within developer Ubisoft Singapore, to the lack of experienced developers on the team, as many employees quit their jobs at Ubisoft due to the troubled development cycle.
Part of the reason that Ubisoft has stuck with the project despite all this, is that, according to anonymous sources who spoke to gaming outlet Kotaku, Ubisoft Singapore made an agreement with Singapore's government. In exchange for a grant that would provide a budget enough to fund the development of Skull & Bones, Ubisoft Singapore would be required to hire a certain minimum of local workers within the country, and, "must launch original brand new IPs in the next few years".
Now, all those years later, it seems like the project will actually come to fruition, as Insider-Gaming, who has correctly leaked information regarding Ubisoft projects in the past, has reported that Skull & Bones is locked in for release on February 16, 2024. The game will launch on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5, with a retail price of £49.99, with official confirmation likely to happen during The Game Awards.
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