Assassin's Creed: Ubisoft Toronto working on Black Flag follow-up

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag was only announced this month, but two Ubisoft teams are already working on the one to come after that.

Ubisoft Toronto boss Jade Raymond told Polygon that her studio is working with Ubisoft Montreal on the next Assassin's Creed release after Black Flag.

Naturally Raymond can't talk about the new title yet, but she did seem pleased to be back on board Assassin's Creed; she was one of the key creatives behind the original.

"The thing that's great to me is that there is still some of my favorite people who, you know, we were in the trenches shipping that first one," she said.

"We lived through all of that stuff together and some of those guys are still on the franchise and have been there. So it's a just for me to work with some of those people again."

The news is not that surprising, as Ubisoft tends to transition portions of each studio onto other projects, usually in collaboration with other teams, when their roles on existing titles is complete. Ubisoft Toronto has nearly finished work on Splinter Cell: Blacklist and multiplayer maps for Rainbow Six: Patriots, and now has five more titles on the go for the coming years.

"We have two big collaborations coming that we're not talking about, on two of the biggest franchises at Ubisoft," Raymond said. "We also have two new IP."

The fifth project is another Splinter Cell.