The image features the game's full title – Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag – and what's likely to be the game's protagonist Edward Kenway.

To the right you can see a variation of a Jolly Roger flag – signifying pirates – complete with the Assassin's Creed logo.

Earlier reports revealed that the game will be set in the Caribbean on multiple islands, including Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas.

There's no word on which platforms the game will be coming to, but expect to hear something official from Ubisoft pretty soon.

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Ubisoft has announced Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, which introduces a new coarse heir to the century-spanning action series. As you can gather from the artwork, the sequel shifts to the Caribbean in an era of piracy and formidable pistol-to-hand ratios. The game is so far confirmed for PS3, Xbox 360, PC, and Wii U, with the PS3 version including "60 minutes of exclusive gameplay."

Joystiq will have more information and opinions about Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag on Monday. We'd love it if you checked back then to learn about the game's protagonist, goals, and guiding principles.

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After revealing the sequel’s gun-strapped hero on the box art of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, Ubisoft wasted no time in preparing a debut trailer to leap from its towering marketing mast. A countdown ticks away the trailer’s launch in three days, but DarkZero switched on its Eagle Vision and found a now-deleted hidden URL displaying a banner proclaiming an October 29 release date for the radically piratical fourth-quel.

Simply adding a “v” to the end of the trailer announcement’s web address sent you to the banner, a crazily minute addition that makes me wonder if DarkZero’s spot borders on sorcery. Both banner and address no longer exist, of course, having been stabbed in the face by Ubisoft’s swift assassin response team.

The October release window lines up with previous autumn launches of an Assassin’s Creed game, though PC versions tended to trail behind by a few months because of lingering bugs and…well, just because. Perhaps we’ll enjoy this Creed sans delays this time around. In the meantime, check back right here on Monday for our full preview.

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Assassin's Creed 4 has been officially (if reluctantly) confirmed by Ubisoft, but the Internet isn't quite done plundering nuggets of information about the game. A bit of simple digital trickery fooled the teaser site into giving away a few details before its time: an October 29 release date and a few more platforms.


DarkZero (via Joystiq) noticed that adding a letter to the end of the URL teaser site bypassed the countdown clock and went straight to the premiere trailer. The trailer hadn't been put up, and Ubisoft seems to have removed the words now, but the information is out.

In addition to a the release date, the site also mentioned that the game is coming to "next-gen consoles." That would be the newly-announced PlayStation 4 and presumably whatever Microsoft has cooking, which is unsurprising given Ubisoft's general tendency to jump on new platforms.

After two rounds of the Internet outing game details, the trailer set to debut next week is running out of surprises. Let's just hope that the new protagonist's ship isn't this leaky. Arr.

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While there's no word yet on the game's new hero - or even if it's about to get one - a recent report on gaming website Gamespot has suggested that that the next installment in the franchise may be set in tropical climates. In an interview with Techtudo, Ubisoft Brazil managing director has suggested the next game could be set in Brazil.

Originally published in Portuguese, a Google translation of the article read: "The director of Ubisoft Brazil also reached to comment that the company has already mapped some data to develop a web-based history of the country, but nothing has been decided yet."

It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to supplant the series in Brazil - sections of Assassin's Creed III take part in Brazil and the game's producer Francois Pelland has said that one of the franchise's key strengths is that it can be set in any country and pretty much during any era.

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Another rumour that's bubbled to the surface recently hints that the next Assassin's Creed game may break with tradition and offer another gameplay mode. Ever since the arrival of Assassin's Creed II, core entries in the series have always shipped with a lengthy single-player campaign bundled together with an engrossing comepetitive multiplayer mode.

However, a report published on The Gaming Liberty website states that Assassin's Creed 4 could contain a co-op mode. According to its article, Ubisoft recently sent out a survey to take the temperature of gamers' desires ahead of the development of the next insallment in the series.

The survey reportedly asked questions covering players' general satisfaction with core gameplay mechanics including combat and navigation, as well as poiting queries about the overal plot and sequence of events in the last entry in the series. It also probed gamers for ideas about potential features for a future Assassin's Creed game; participants in the survey were asked about their ongoing interest in Desmond's storyline and whether they'd like to see Connor return for a future outing. The popularity of Assassin's Creed III's Colonial North American setting was also gauged.

The survey also asked whether players would like to see a new co-op mode in the next entry in the franchise, specifically querying if they'd enjoy the "possibility for a friend to join the game in order to help" with any missions or activities they were engaged in.

Source: The Gaming Liberty