Maybe: ‘ASSASSIN’S CREED IV: BLACK FLAG’ is franchise’s next installment. Here is a poster.

Another year. Another Ass Creed. The floodgates are open, and we are awash in the 2013 cycle of rumors surrounding the franchise. The latest? The next title will be starring Johnny Depp as Ass Creed Pirate, rollicking about the high seas. Or something close to that.

Kotaku:

Is the next Assassin’s Creed all about pirates? A tipster just sent over marketing materials for something called Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.

Ubisoft hasn’t announced anything about the next Assassin’s Creed just yet, other than the fact that it will star a new character and a new setting, and it will be out next fiscal year.

According to our tipster, this poster will be on store walls on Monday, March 4.

The poster shows a white-hooded assassin—presumably the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed IV—on a pirate ship, surrounded by gruff-looking buccaneers. There’s a black pirate flag in the background.

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Earlier this month, a Redditor claimed to have seen the name Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flagson an airplane while peaking at a powerpoint presentation by the woman who sat in front of him.

“I was on a flight where the lady in the row in front of me was working on a powerpoint presentation on marketing strategies of several gaming titles,” Redditor photoacoustic wrote. “And one that stood out the most was AC4: Black Flags, aimed for release 2013 Holiday season according to her slide. It already had a cool looking logo for it.”