Assassin’s Creed Codename Red gets official title, reveal trailer coming this week

Ubisoft has announced the official title of the next Assassin’s Creed game.

The title previously referred to as Assassin’s Creed Codename Red is now called Assassin’s Creed Shadows.

A cinematic trailer for the game, which is set in feudal Japan, will premiere on May 15 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm BST.

Assassin’s Creed Codename Red becomes Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
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Ubisoft recently confirmed that the game will be released during its current fiscal year ending in March 2025.

It announced the project in September 2022, when it revealed the future roadmap for the Assassin’s Creed franchise, which included Codename Red as one of six upcoming series entries.

Red, which is being made by Odyssey developer Ubisoft Quebec and has the same creative director, will begin what Ubisoft is calling “period three” in the Assassin’s Creed series, which has sold over 200 million copies since it launched in 2007, according to its publisher.

“We’ll announce the dates a bit later on, but we wanted to mark a change technologically and gameplay-wise as we’re moving to a fully next-gen – or current gen, I guess we call it – with the PS5 and the Xbox Series X,” series boss Marc-Alexis Cote told VGC in an interview about future Assassin’s Creed games at the time.

“One of the big things that we are pushing is to have a more dynamic world, a world that evolves around you and we want everything that you have on yourself to evolve as you walk through this environment – to show the wear and tear – and to improve the fidelity of the experiences that we are building, pushing our animation systems further to make the game feel more realistic than ever.”

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Later, he added: “Red will be supported for many years with expansions with growth, with… a bunch of things that I will not reveal.”

The French publisher will hold its annual Ubisoft Forward event on June 10. For the second year in a row, the showcase will take place in Los Angeles, California, coinciding with Summer Game Fest.