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Ubisoft Plans Assassin’s Creed Live Online Game Service

The Assassin’s Creed Infinity project seeks to emulate the prolonged financial success of GTA V or Fortnite.

Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg 

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Assassin’s Creed, a video game franchise set in huge worlds where each one can take hundreds of hours to complete, is getting even bigger. A new project, which is known inside Ubisoft Entertainment SA by the code name Assassin’s Creed Infinity, sets out to create a massive online platform that evolves over time, according to people familiar with its development.