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What is a skull if not a bone? A bone structure? Either these pirates are pedants or they should have named their game Bones & Bones.
Perhaps it’s questions like these that have ledSkull & Bones, Ubisoft’s seafaring adventure, to be delayed yet again. This time it’s been pushed until sometime after March 2022.
Ubisoft confirmed the delay in their full-year earnings report for 2020. Their confirmed slate of releases for 2021 includesFar Cry 6, Rainbow Six Quarantine, Rider Republic,Roller Champions, and the recently announced free-to-play The Division Heartland. Skull & Bones, meanwhile, “will now be released in 2022-23.”
Here’s what the game looked like when we last saw it in 2018:
Skull & Bones: E3 2018 The Hunting Grounds | Gameplay Walkthrough | Ubisoft [NA]Watch on YouTube
Skull & Bones: E3 2018 The Hunting Grounds | Gameplay Walkthrough | Ubisoft [NA]
I don’t really know what that vision is, anymore. Skull & Bones was announcedback in 2017as an online game that felt like a cross between Assassin’s Creed Black Flag and The Division, but it has reportedly been substantially retooled since thento turn it into more of a live service game. Ubisoft alsoremoved the game’s managing director last yearfollowing allegations of sexual harassment.
You can’t read too much into videogames being delayed, because they’re delayed regularly and for many different reasons. I do look forward to seeing more of Skull & Bones when it’s ready, though.
