Given the recent success of both Assassin's Creed Shadows and Black Flag: Resynced, Assassin's Creed Hexe is becoming a reasonably hotly anticipated game, at this point. While previous rumors indicated that Hexe may launch in June 2027, despite some development setbacks, new rumors suggest that a later launch date is likely.

According to NateTheHate2 on X,xs a well-known gaming industry leaker and insider, Assassin's Creed Hexe "won't launch until second half of 2027, at earliest." His reasoning doesn't appear to be based on any concrete information, but it stands to reason that Ubisoft would not need to launch a new mainline Assassin's Creed game just yet, because Shadows is hardly a year old and won't even be two years old by June 2027.

There have recently been a slew of details about the upcoming Assassin's Creed Hexe, from positives, like the return of fan-favorite characters, to less positive news like the pared-back combat system, or the recent dev team layoffs that may affect the scope of the game further. Now, recent leaks by @AgaiinTx on X claim to reveal the pricing and some other details of what they call Assassin's Creed: Codename Hexe.

According to the leaker, Hexe will feature a PEGI 18 rating and will release for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Allegedly the game will use Denuvo. The leaker also claims that June 2027 has been set as the game's launch date, but it is suspected that this is likely a placeholder and will change at a later date. The base game will allegedly cost $69.99, but it will also launch with deluxe and collector's edition, both of which will cost more than the former.

Assassin's Creed Hexe has shown up a number of times in the news recently—and not always for positive reasons—but the latest leak out of Ubisoft leaker Rogue (via u/ZamnBoii on Reddit), have revealed that Ezio, from Assassin's Creed II, Brotherhood, and Revelations, may be making a comeback in the new game as the protagonist's aging mentor figure. Reportedly, there are dialogue lines between Ezio and the main character, Anika, suggesting he teaches her the basics of the Brotherhood, with one line by Ezio reading "Come. Leap with me. One last time for an old man."

A handful of gameplay details accompanied the character leak, including the ability to scale trees and jump from tree to tree using branches. The majority of the game is slated to take place in Würzburg, and NPCs will apparently be more vigilant, reporting "minor suspicious activity" immediately and intervening in some instances. This, along with what we already know about the involvement of witchcraft in the game's story, suggests that the game will take place during the Würzburg witch trials during the 1620s and continued for six years until 1631. The protagonist herself is claimed to be a descendant of Ezio's sister, Claudia Auditore, but the story of Hexe seems to take place over 160 years after Ezio's debut in the franchise, so it Ezio's return is expected to be in the form of a flashback or a ghost materialized by an Isu artifact.