Assassin's Creed Mirage release date changed to avoid week of death

Fans looking forward to the new Assassin’s Creed will now be able to get it a little earlier, as Ubisoft avoids the year’s busiest week.

For some reason the entire video games industry is, and always has been, terrible at release dates. Every year, publishers manage to launch major games at exactly the same time as their rivals, and sometimes even their own titles, leading to situations where some games are clearly doomed to fail before they’re even out.

Everyone can see it well ahead of time, except apparently the companies whose job it is to avoid such things.

This year has a particularly extreme example of the phenomena, with a two-week period in which Forza Motorsport, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Lords Of The Fallen, Alan Wake 2, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and Alone In The Dark all come out within days of each other.

This ridiculous traffic jam of games is even more absurd because until Call Of Duty announced its release date there was absolutely nothing major out in November and only one in December.

The makers of Alan Wake 2 have already acknowledged how they’re doomed – without actually doing anything about – but Ubisoft has seen sense and announced that Assassin’s Creed Mirage will be out a week earlier.

Major video game releases this autumn

26 September – Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (XSX/PS5/PC)
29 September – EA Sports FC 24 (XO/PS4/NS/XSX/PS5/PC)
5 October – Assassin’s Creed Mirage (XO/PS4/XSX/PS5/PC/Luna)
10 October – Forza Motorsport (XSX/PC)
13 October – Lords Of The Fallen (XSX/PS5/PC)
17 October – Alan Wake 2 (XSX/PS5/PC)
20 October – Super Mario Bros. Wonder (NS)
20 October – Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (PS5)
25 October – Alone In The Dark (XSX/PS5/PC)
10 November – Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (TBC)
7 December – Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora (XSX/PS5/PC)

Mirage will now be released on October 5, instead of 12, a good two weeks before the biggest hitters.

That not only gives it more breathing room but the fact that Ubisoft moved it forward, and not backwards, suggests development is going smoothly and there won’t be any technical issues at launch.

The movie industry will often change release dates if big films find themselves in too close proximity but despite constantly making the same mistake, video games very rarely do.

Hopefully, though, this sudden outbreak of common sense will be contagious.

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