A remake of a popular PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 adventure game may have a release date, and it’s sooner than many thought.
What PS5 remaster is out soon?
Ubisoft has officially announced that the Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag remake, titled Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, is set to release worldwide on July 9, 2026, and will be available on Ubisoft+, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
The upcoming remake is described as a “faithful remake” of the original 2013 game. The game features updated visuals, “enriched gameplay,” improved stealth and parkour, deeper naval mechanics, dynamic weather, and what Ubisoft says is new narrative content, although it’s unclear what that includes.
The standard edition of the game will retail for $59.99, but there will be two other editions available for the game. A Deluxe Edition digital-only version retails for $69.99 and includes the base game, the Master Assassin Character Pack, and the Master Assassins Naval Pack. A Collector’s Edition is also set to release for $199.99, and will include premium physical collector’s items, including a figurine of Edward, a metal brooch, a SteelBook, cloth map, and more.
The full list of changes coming to Assassin’s Creed Black Resynced can be found on Ubisoft’s blog, but includes:
- Graphical and technological enhancements
- Built from the ground-up on the latest evolution of Ubisoft’s proprietary Anvil engine, used in Assassin’s Creed Shadows
- Raytraced Lighting with Global Illumination (RTGI) and reflections.
- Optimized Performance with 60 FPS options on consoles.
- Graphics assets built from the ground up to support Micropolygon and Physically Based Rendering (PBR) pipelines.
- Fully modernized water rendering and simulation.
- New and enhanced features, quests, and stories
- Locate and assign new Officers to the Jackdaw, who each bring a special ability to naval combat.
- Playas have been reworked, offering new rewards and unique encounters on islands across the map.
- Additional missions and new scenes featuring Matt Ryan, Edward’s Original voice actor and the original cast.
- More customization options for the Jackdaw, including new skins and the all-new ship’s pets to bring along a cat or monkey companion while you sail.
- Reworked Kenway’s Fleet, which allows players to use captured ships to generate passive income through rare activities and trading, now available in the Captain’s Cabin and on all versions of AC Black Flag Resynced
- The old shanties are back, but are joined by a new set of 10 songs for your crew to bellow as you sail.
- Reworked action-adventure combat featuring:
- New visceral takedowns
- New parrying mechanics
- Quick-fire rope dart and pistol moves
- A new enemy archetype – the Demolitionist
- New and enhanced stealth gameplay
- Observe mode which extends Edward’s Eagle Vision.
- Crouch-anywhere lets Edward lower his profile anywhere on land.
- Dive-anywhere means Edward can stealthily approach seafront locations and ships.
- Shadows and low light will affect Edward’s visibility during stealth sequences.
- Reworked naval combat
- New secondary weapons have been added to try out in combat, including:
- Shrapnel barrels explode and damage enemy sails.
- 8-pounders open up more weakpoints in enemy ship hulls.
- Enemy ships and factions reworked to add different equipment depending on their alliances.
- New secondary weapons have been added to try out in combat, including:
- Enhanced parkour featuring moves like:
- Manual jump
- Side ejects
- Height-gaining back ejects
- Quicker interrupts between parkour moves
- Dynamic weather and objects
- With Anvil’s Atmos system, the weather of the Caribbean becomes a character in its own right and brings the seas to life.
- Destructible objects react to weather and combat: signs that move and shift with the wind, ships’ sails billow and blow, coconuts roll across the ground in a storm, and objects break when enemies are thrown against them.
- Reworked water physics really brings home the feeling of sailing the Caribbean.
