{"id":293668,"date":"2025-10-13T03:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/ubisofts-skull-bones-is-now-in-alpha-but-the-road-to-get-there-has-reportedly-been-anything-but-easy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:43:59","slug":"ubisofts-skull-bones-is-now-in-alpha-but-the-road-to-get-there-has-reportedly-been-anything-but-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ubisofts-skull-bones-is-now-in-alpha-but-the-road-to-get-there-has-reportedly-been-anything-but-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones Is Now In Alpha, But The Road To Get There Has Reportedly Been Anything But Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones has been an enigma ever since it was first revealed. The hyper-realistic nautical pirate adventure looked intriguing<\/a>, but the silence on its development has been oddly telling, that is until Ubisoft announced<\/a> that it now has a release window targeting a time between April 1, 2022, and March 31, 2023. After spending years\u00a0working on this game, it looks like it is now in a playable alpha state, but a new report suggests that the time leading up to now has been anything but smooth sailing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A new report from Kotaku<\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/i>talks about the road thus far, including how Skull & Bones was initially meant to be an expansion to Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, the first entry in the franchise that focused heavily on nautical warfare. According to the site, more than 20 developers that worked at Ubisoft talked with\u00a0Kotaku\u00a0<\/em>anonymously to discuss the journey that has been Skull & Bones. Originally slated to be a multiplayer expansion for Black Flag, Ubisoft eventually pivoted to it becoming an MMO tie-in to the Assassin’s Creed game called Black Flag Infinite. That obviously\u00a0didn’t work out, but the idea eventually transformed into its own IP, though even that has had some apparent growing pains.<\/p>\n