News Summary

• Ubisoft reportedly canceled an Assassin's Creed game that would have featured a Black protagonist set during the post-American Civil War period.
• The game was canceled in July of 2024 and would have focused on the American Civil War, as well as the Reconstruction period that followed in the 1860s and 1870s.
• The Reconstruction-era game would have starred a Black man and former slave from the South who heads west to start a new life.
• The character would've been recruited by the Assassins, who would then return to the South to fight the Ku Klux Klan.