Ubisoft has confirmed that New Game+ is coming to Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced next week. The announcement came through the official Assassin's Creed account on X, which thanked players for their patience and paired the news with a GIF of a grinning Edward Kenway. Ubisoft hasn't given an exact date or said what the mode will include, so we don't know yet whether players will carry over gear, upgrades, or anything else into a fresh run, although that is to be expected from a New Game+. The feature has been a long time coming, as Ubisoft first promised New Game+ content back in July when the game crossed 3 million sales.

Around the same time, game director Richard Knight told YouTuber JorRaptor that the team was already working on New Game+ and that it was one of the first things on the list. He also called it relatively low risk, since Assassin's Creed Shadows already had its own version of the mode. Black Flag Resynced launched on July 9 and has done well for Ubisoft so far, hitting 2 million sales in 24 hours and selling 3.5 million copies in its first two weeks, which already exceeded Ubisoft's expectations for the whole year. New Game+ will likely give players who finished the story over the summer a reason to jump back into the Caribbean. Ubisoft had reportedly tied the future of its remakes to how Black Flag performed, and an Assassin's Creed 1 remake is said to be next in line.

The Blood of Dawnwalker launched at the start of September with a strong start, selling over a million copies within the first week of launch. Following that success, it was confirmed that a sequel was already in the works, however, apparently one sticking point for many players was that the game didn't launch with enough difficulty options—especially not ones that make the gameplay more approachable. According to Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, game director for The Blood of Dawnwalker, in a recent interview with Eurogamer, an October update is en route to add a new difficulty mode.

[Editor's note: Our in-depth handheld performance review of The Blood of Dawnwalker is now live]

We will introduce an additional difficulty level, but an easier one, because many people are asking for a more easy difficulty. The Story mode which we have right now will be a different difficulty—we will call it Demanding or something like this—and we will add a new Story mode which will be even easier for people who don't want to experience the combat, they just want to learn the story and go through the game without this gameplay challenge.

Remedy Entertainment revealed Control Resonant near the end of 2025, later revealing that the sequel to the atmospheric, sci-fi, third-person action-adventure shooter would launch around Q2 2026. Now, presumably in the lead-up to the official launch of Resonant, Remedy has shown off some of what's to come in the game's New Game Plus gameplay. According to the PlayStation Blog post, Remedy will rely on more than just more power and increased damage counters for the New Game Plus gameplay, instead giving players more control over their builds in order to face off against more challenging enemies.

Instead, in Control Resonant, when players have finished the game and start a new playthrough in the same save, the game changes how the player and enemies interact, but players keep many of the upgrades they've earned—Aberrant upgrades, health improvements, supernatural abilities, talents, and artifacts will all still be there. "One of the goals for New Game Plus is to give players more room to experiment with builds that weren't possible during the first playthrough, as you cannot unlock everything in your arsenal in one go," Remedy explains. For starters, the player character has an extra artifact slot that allows for both increased damage output and more build diversity, and players will be able to equip more than one combat ability from the same boss for new synergies. The game also unlocks more artifacts and crafting options, making it easier to adapt builds to different scenarios and tougher enemies.