Assassin’s Creed and Watch Dogs formally occupy the identical fictional universe

The two sequence have lengthy referenced each other – Watch Dogs easter eggs have typically pointed in direction of Assassin’s Creed, whereas 2013’s Black Flag references Watch Dogs’ evil Blume firm.

The greatest crossover, nonetheless, comes within the type of Olivier Garneau, Chief Creative Officer at Abstergo Entertainment within the modern-day sections of Black Flag. During the sport, he leaves the corporate for a shareholder’s assembly in Chicago, the situation of Watch Dogs, however by no means arrives. That’s as a result of he options in a side-mission in that recreation, by which Aiden Pearce, Watch Dogs’ protagonist, assassinates him.

Until now, Ubisoft have been suggesting that these connections are all purely coincidental, however Assassin’s Creed Origins’ builders had different concepts, together with a screenshot of Garneau and Pearce, making the connection formally canon.You can discover that image within the modern-day sections of Origins, amid a bunch of recordsdata on different earlier Abstergo workers. Now, all that is still to be seen is whether or not the remainder of Ubisoft’s video games all match into that very same universe – anybody noticed any references to Far Cry four’s Pagan Min anyplace?