As rumours surrounding Ubisoft’s remake of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag continue to bubble despite the company’s continued silence, a new one has popped up regarding a figurine of protagonist Edward Kenway. Twitter user j0nathan has spotted a figurine of Edward popping up on online marketplace Vinted. In a social media post, they indicate that this figurine of Edward might have connections to the upcoming all-but-confirmed remake.
J0nathan also noted that the figurine was a “completely new” one, which might indicate that it was produced relatively recently. Unfortunately, however, pictures of the figurine, while still maintaining Edward Kenway’s general cool-ness, don’t really reveal any details about which company might have made it.
“A guy on Vinted is selling a completely new Edward Kenway figurine and claims it would be released this year,” wrote j0nathan. “Knowing that the Black Flag remake was supposed to come out in less than 2 months, could this be the official figurine from the game?”
There is a chance that Play Arts—a company that works on similar officially-licensed products for franchises like Assassin’s Creed—designed this figurine. The company was spotted last June having inadvertently leaked that a Black Flag remake might be coming sooner than we had thought. While it didn’t reveal too many details, two hosts of a livestream by the company had said that “something is going on with Edward.”
“Assassin’s Creed fans out there, you should be aware that there is something going on with Edward [Keyway]”, said one of them when asked by their chat about why they weren’t showcasing a figure based on the Black Flag protagonist. They were interrupted by the other saying “wait has that been announced?”
“I think so, I’m pretty sure I saw rumors about it. No, I definitely saw an article about it”, responded the first host. The livestream would then continue before the host once again revealed: “So there’s going to be something going on with Edward, and our PVC 1/8th scale statue will reflect that accordingly.”
Going back to j0nathan’s post, they noted that this figurine could be related to the remake that was “supposed to come out in less than 2 months.” However, recent reports have indicated that it has actually been delayed to 2027 after having been originally slated for release on March 19.
The move might have been part of Ubisoft’s larger corporate restructuring which saw the cancellation of several projects, including Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. Before this delay, however, the report indicates that Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced—as it is believed to be named—was going to go gold early in February. Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson posited that “it could have been full of bugs, which is why they have delayed it.”
Curiously, Ubisoft had also recently re-uploaded 18 tracks from the soundtrack of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag onto its Ubisoft Music channel. Through a community post, the company explained that “we encountered some technical issues with a few of our videos, which we had to reupload.”
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is believed to be in development for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The original came out on PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
