Like 2016, 2019 will be a year without an Assassin's Creed game. Speaking with GameSpot during Gamescom, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot revealed that his company will not release a new entry in the (usually) annualized franchise.

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"On Assassin's, we had a game [in 2017], and we have one this year, but we are not going to have a full-fledged Assassin's next year," said Guillemot. "It's just because the team were [sic] working separately, so we have two games now, one year after the other. But next year you're not going to have a fully fledged one."There won't just not be a new "main" Assassin's Creed entry, either; Ubisoft also won't release any sort of spin-off or smaller game. Instead, explained Guillemot, Ubisoft plans to extend this year's entry, Assassin's Creed Odyssey , as much as possible through DLC."What you'll have is lots of content coming on [Assassin's Creed Odyssey]," explained Guillemot. "The team really want [sic] to give, on a regular basis, some new possibilities for play, so when you get [Odyssey] this year, you're going to get in for a couple of years, actually."Guillemot didn't detail what any of that content will be, but Eurogamer reports that it could include an Atlantis-themed expansion.From its inception in 2007 through 2015, the Assassin's Creed franchise saw a minimum of one new game released every single year. With popular opinion seemingly turning toward the series being in decline, Ubisoft put a stop to that in 2016 before Assassin's Creed made a successful return with 2017's Assassin's Creed: Origins."[The time] gave the team the possibility to really bring what they wanted to," said Guillemot of the year off. "The community has been responding very well to it, and when I see what we are bringing with Odyssey I know that the community that got back in with Origins will be amazed."As it did with Origins, with Odyssey, Ubisoft has tried to faithfully rebuild another ancient world , but it also features some supernatural elements that might kill you dead Assassin's Creed Odyssey will be released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on October 5.

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