Key Takeaways:
- Ubisoft has quietly updated the original Assassin’s Creed Steam store page with a new banner and a logo that matches the Black Flag Resynced font style — widely read as a tease for the next Resynced remake.
- Multiple credible industry sources, including Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson and known Ubisoft leaker j0nathan, have reported that an Assassin’s Creed 1 remake is already in development.
- The project is expected to be titled Assassin’s Creed Resynced, following the naming convention established with Black Flag Resynced.
- In 2024, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed the company had “multiple” Assassin’s Creed remakes in development — Black Flag Resynced was just the first.
- November 2027 marks the 20th anniversary of the original Assassin’s Creed, making it the most logical launch window for a reveal or release.
- AC Black Flag Resynced sold 2 million copies in 24 hours and 3.5 million in its first two weeks, giving Ubisoft every reason to continue the Resynced pipeline.
Ubisoft Is Doing the Thing Again
You know that move publishers pull where they quietly update a Steam store page with new branding and let the community do the marketing work for them? Ubisoft is doing exactly that right now with the original Assassin’s Creed. Eagle-eyed fans in communities like AC Brotherhood Gaming have spotted that Ubisoft has updated the original game’s Steam page banner and logo art — and the logo now matches the font and style used in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. That’s not the kind of update you make for a 19-year-old game unless you’re building toward something.
This isn’t some stray data entry. The original Assassin’s Creed Steam page has been updated at least twice in recent months. These assets don’t change themselves, and Ubisoft doesn’t refresh the branding of a nearly two-decade-old title without a reason. The community has clocked it, the analysts have noted it, and multiple industry insiders had already been pointing in this direction for months before the Steam page started getting touched. Put it all together and the picture is pretty clear: Assassin’s Creed Resynced — a full remake of the 2007 original — is coming.
The Background: Ubisoft Told Us This Was Happening
This didn’t come out of nowhere. Back in June 2024, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed the company was working on “multiple” Assassin’s Creed remakes. At the time, Black Flag Resynced was already known to be in development — but “multiple” explicitly meant more were in the pipeline. The first has now shipped. The question was always which one came next.
The answer started taking shape around April 2026 when Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson reported that the next Assassin’s Creed remake in development would focus on the original game. That report was subsequently backed by j0nathan, a well-known and consistently reliable Ubisoft leaker, who added that the project had been in the works for years — with internal development notes dating back as far as 2023. Ubisoft never formally denied any of it, and Insider Gaming’s track record on Black Flag Resynced-related scoops throughout 2025 and 2026 was consistently accurate.
The commercial logic is ironclad too. Ubisoft stated upfront that future Assassin’s Creed remakes would be greenlit depending on how well Black Flag Resynced performed. Resynced performed extremely well. Case closed.
Black Flag Resynced Was a Massive Success — And That’s Why AC1 Is Next
Let’s talk numbers for a second, because they matter a lot to understanding why Ubisoft isn’t hesitating here. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced launched on July 9, 2026. In its first 24 hours it sold 2 million copies across PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Within two weeks it had moved 3.5 million units — exceeding Ubisoft’s annual sales expectations for the title before it had even been on shelves a month. It hit 99,451 peak concurrent players on Steam in the first day, the highest ever recorded for an Assassin’s Creed title on the platform.
Critics were on board too. The game landed an 84 on Metacritic and 85 on OpenCritic, making it the highest-rated Assassin’s Creed since the original Black Flag back in 2013. IGN gave it a 9/10 and called it “bigger and better in all the ways that matter.” Digital Foundry described it as one of the most effective remakes they’d ever seen. Yes, there was early backlash over microtransactions on Steam launch day — that’s a legitimate criticism — but it didn’t stop the game from flipping to Mostly Positive reviews and continuing to sell strongly months after release.
When a new franchise direction produces those kinds of results that quickly, you don’t wait around. You announce the next one.
Why the Original Assassin’s Creed Makes Perfect Sense as the Follow-Up
Of all the classic Assassin’s Creed games that could get the Resynced treatment, the original 2007 entry is arguably the most obvious and most compelling candidate — even more so than the extremely popular Ezio trilogy.
Here’s the thing about Assassin’s Creed 1: it’s the only mainline game in the series that is not currently playable on modern consoles in any form. The Ezio games have the Ezio Collection. Black Flag just got Resynced. But the game that started everything — the one that introduced Altaïr, the Animus, the Assassin-Templar conflict, and the whole formula — is stuck on hardware most people don’t own anymore. That alone makes a remake both commercially and historically meaningful.
There’s also a massive gameplay gap between the original game and where the series went afterward. The 2007 Assassin’s Creed was a lot more repetitive and mechanically limited than later entries — deliberately so, in a way that the era of gaming it came from required. A Resynced version built on the Anvil engine used for Black Flag Resynced and Shadows could preserve the core identity — the crowds, the stealth, the historical setting of the Holy Land during the Third Crusade — while bringing the gameplay up to the standard fans now expect. There’s a lot of room to work with there in a way there wasn’t with Black Flag, which was already a tighter, more polished experience to begin with.
Altaïr ibn-La’Ahad is also a fascinating character who got relatively little development in his original game. A Resynced remake is exactly the kind of project that could give the character room to breathe the way newer entries have done for protagonists like Eivor and Kassandra.
The 20th Anniversary Window Is the Smart Money for a Reveal
Timing is everything with Ubisoft’s Resynced strategy. Black Flag Resynced launched on July 9, 2026. If the pattern holds — roughly 16 to 18 months between Resynced entries — then late 2027 or early 2028 is the natural window for the next one. And as it happens, November 2027 is exactly when the original Assassin’s Creed turns 20 years old. The original launched on November 13, 2007.
A 20th anniversary reveal or launch for Assassin’s Creed Resynced isn’t just thematically appropriate — it’s genuinely good marketing. Ubisoft has already announced a special $2,999 limited release to celebrate the franchise’s 20th anniversary, which signals the company is planning a significant celebration around that date. Showing up with a full remake of the game that started it all would be the centerpiece move of any anniversary celebration worth taking seriously.
Ubisoft clearly isn’t going to show up empty-handed for Assassin’s Creed’s 20th, and a remake of AC1 that brings Altaïr’s story to modern hardware for the first time is exactly the kind of announcement that lands perfectly in that context.
What Could Assassin’s Creed Resynced Look Like?
Assuming the Resynced formula carries over, fans can look to Black Flag Resynced as the template. That game was a faithful rebuild of the original in Ubisoft’s current Anvil engine — the same one powering Assassin’s Creed Shadows — with ray-traced lighting, a completely overhauled combat system, new content, and upgraded visuals that kept the spirit of the original intact while making it feel like a current-generation game. The story was preserved, the setting was preserved, and the identity of the game was preserved. What changed was the technology and a handful of quality-of-life improvements.
Applied to AC1, that approach would mean the streets of Jerusalem, Damascus, and Acre rebuilt from scratch in a modern engine. The Bureau system, the eavesdropping and pickpocketing missions, the rooftop assassinations — all of it reimagined with current-generation polish. The repetitive mission structure of the original is the one area most fans would want to see addressed, and a Resynced treatment seems like exactly the kind of project where Ubisoft could selectively expand and vary the mission design without changing what makes the game fundamentally AC1.
What About AC2? Doesn’t Ezio Deserve the Resynced Treatment First?
Fair question, and it’s one the community has been debating since the Black Flag Resynced sales numbers came in. Assassin’s Creed 2 is widely considered the franchise’s best entry. The Ezio trilogy — AC2, Brotherhood, and Revelations — has a fanbase that goes absolutely feral at the mention of a remake. A lot of people’s first instinct when they heard “next AC remake” was Ezio.
But the evidence is pointing specifically at AC1, not AC2. The Steam page updates are on the original game, not AC2. The insider reports name AC1. And from a strategic standpoint, going backwards to the game that’s genuinely unavailable on modern platforms makes more business sense than remaking AC2, which is still playable through the Ezio Collection on PS4 and Xbox One. Ubisoft wants to fill the holes in the library first, and AC1 is the biggest hole.
That doesn’t mean an Ezio Resynced isn’t in the pipeline — remember, Guillemot said “multiple” remakes, plural. AC1 appears to be the next step, but it almost certainly won’t be the last.
The Bigger Picture for Ubisoft
The Resynced strategy represents something genuinely significant for Ubisoft as a company. The publisher has had a difficult stretch by any measure — declining revenues, studio closures, and a string of underperforming releases put the company under serious pressure heading into 2026. Black Flag Resynced was, in many ways, a test of whether returning to the franchise’s roots and giving fans something they actually asked for could reverse that trajectory.
It worked. And now Ubisoft has a roadmap that plays to its strengths: a beloved IP with decades of classic titles that haven’t been playable in years, a proven remake formula, and a fan community that has been vocally asking for exactly this kind of project. The Resynced pipeline is the clearest creative and commercial direction Ubisoft has found in years.
Whether it’s AC1 next year or something else, the direction is set. Altaïr’s story being one of the worst-kept secrets in gaming right now only makes the eventual reveal feel more like a celebration than a surprise. Which, honestly, is exactly how Ubisoft wants it.
While Ubisoft is planning its next move, there’s plenty happening across gaming right now — from Final Fantasy 7 Revelation’s massive 200GB file size controversy to Metroid Ravenous Special Edition pre-orders being wiped out by scalpers, the fall 2026 gaming calendar is one of the most stacked in recent memory.
And if you’re wondering what other big studios have planned for their classic IP, check out our piece on what Rockstar Games is working on after GTA 6 — because the Max Payne remakes are shaping up to be another major classic IP revival worth watching.
