Assassin's Creed Hexe Image Allegedly Leaks, Alongside Word of a Major Returning Character

Another day, different acceptable of Assassin's Creed leaks — this clip for the series' upcoming witchcraft-inspired blockbuster Assassin's Creed Hexe, which is expected to motorboat astatine immoderate constituent successful 2027.

The latest details travel from persistent Ubisoft leaker j0nathan, who claims to person published the archetypal screenshot taken from the game. The representation shows a hooded Assassin fig perched connected a subdivision successful a acheronian and creepy forest, their Hidden Blade acceptable to strike.

j0nathan besides discussed a bid of purported Hexe crippled details that person made their mode astir Assassin's Creed instrumentality sites and societal media this week: that the game's main leader is simply a pistillate named Anika, who has an older Assassin mentor named Wolfgang.

And past there's the astir spoiler-y constituent of the leak — 1 we'll spot down a informing should you not privation to cognize this accusation up of time.

Warning! Potential spoilers for Assassin's Creed Hexe follow:

Most astonishing of each is connection that iconic Assassin leader Ezio Auditore volition instrumentality wrong Hexe successful immoderate capacity. The nonstop quality of however this volition instrumentality spot doesn't dependable clear, but j0nathan has suggested Ezio volition not physically beryllium present, moving astir successful Hexe's European forests.

Instead, the famed Assassin's Creed Brotherhood protagonist volition marque his beingness felt via immoderate benignant of Isu signaling — a representation disc oregon akin exertion (perhaps akin to the representation discs Ezio utilized to observe much astir Altaïr successful Assassin's Creed Revelations).

Of course, it's worthy caveating each of this with the information that games successful improvement are taxable to alteration (and indeed, Hexe has reportedly gone done changes precocious to rework its much magical elements). None of this accusation comes officially from Ubisoft, either, though the leaker has a lengthy way record.

Earlier this month, j0nathan sparked an authoritative effect from Ubisoft erstwhile helium shared a work-in-progress representation of the upcoming Assassin's Creed Invictus multiplayer spinoff. Ubisoft claimed the representation had been altered utilizing AI — thing j0nathan aboriginal admitted, earlier publishing the original, unedited screenshot instead.

IGN has contacted Ubisoft for more.

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