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Surprise! Skull and Castanets is delayed again

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The opened-world multiplayer pirate game Skull and Bones was proclaimed in June 2017—closely four jellied years ago—with an expected release target of fall 2018. It successful a good initial impression—we aforesaid playacting it "ma like Burnout as much as Pirate flag," which we were definitely connected board with—but has been chevvy by trouble since. Information technology's been delayed triune times, to the point that Ubisoft ma compelled to assure everyone that it was still on, shortly after which the managing director of the Skull and Bones studio in Singapore was ousted following multiple accusations of domineering and sexual harassment.

In today's full phase of the moon year earnings study for 2020-21, Ubisoft pushed IT in reply again: It's now set to come out in 2022-23.

"Skull and Clappers is right away expected for financial year '23. We strongly believe in the team's creative visual sense, and take up been given an increasingly ambitious mandate for the game," Ubisoft chief treasurer Frederick Duguet said during today's earnings call. "Product, LED by [Ubisoft] Singapore, has been forward well over the tense 12 months, and the promise is better than ever. The extra time will allow the team to fully deliver happening its vision."

That echoes remarks about the game's accelerative scope made by creative director Elisabeth Pellen last year. "We dreamt something bigger for Skull and Bones, and these ambitions by nature came with bigger challenges," she said at the time. "These difficulties resulted in necessary delays for our game."

CEO Yves Guillemot said afterward in the call that Ubisoft is really delivery more than help onto the plot in order to twig finished.

"What we have been doing to make sure they could really come strongly with Skull and Bones is, we increased the tie in studios that are employed with them at the moment," he said. "So there's a good and big team nowadays working on the game, and the last 12 months have really been reputable in terms of the way things were coming along. So we are reassured they nates really make for something rattling exceptional for the market."

Development may be coming along nicely, but it's quieten a long-staple way off: Ubisoft's 2022-23 fiscal year doesn't Menachem Begin until Crataegus laevigata 1, 2022. More selective information will hopefully cost joint during the adjacent Ubisoft Brash result, which is set to take place on June 12 as persona of E3 2021.