Assassin’s Creed Odyssey confirmed by Ubisoft ahead of E3

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has been confirmed by Ubisoft as the next entry in the open-world franchise, just hours after an image of the game’s name and logo were leaked and spread online.

The Assassin’s Creed Twitter account posted a short video Thursday evening confirming the game’s name, and an appearance for it at E3 2018.

This leak comes hours after French video game site JeuxVideo-Live posted an image of a novelty keychain promoting the hitherto-unannounced title. JeuxVideo-Live’s report claimed Odyssey will be a follow-up to Assassin’s Creed Origins, released last year. The site also claimed the game will be set in ancient Greece. The helmet sort of resembles that of King Leonidas I.

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In the teaser, we see one character forcefully kicking another off a cliff, followed by a title card with the game’s name, and a teasing “See you at E3.” The shot is most likely a reference to the Spartans kicking the Persian messengers into the well ahead of the Battle of Thermopylae — famously depicted in the film 300.

We’ll undoubtedly see much more of the game in a little more than a week, at Ubisoft’s E3 press conference on Monday, June 11.

Correction: This article originally referred to the next Assassin’s Creed game as Assassin’s Creed Origins instead of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. We’ve edited the article to fix the error.