At the site of the plane crash which killed Russia’s most powerful mercenary nine days ago, a black Wagner flag flies beside a mound of rocks surrounded by flowers but all the debris of the ...

The number of people playing Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag has risen 200% on Steam after the release of fellow Ubisoft pirate game Skull and Bones. As reported by PCGamesN, the player numbers of ...

Beginning development in 2013, Skull and Bones, conceptually, was a spin-off of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, which launched that same year. Both are games where you play as a pirate and engage ...

And like Black Flag, Skull and Bones is a pirate game with an emphasis on naval combat. "Skull and Bones was never meant to be a spin-off of Black Flag," creative director Elisabeth Pellen ...

Of course, Skull and Bones is not Ubisoft’s first foray into the pirate space. Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag released in 2013, and players stepped into the shoes of Edward Kenway—a lowly ...

Naturally, a more naval-focused sequel - the beloved Black Flag - would follow, but a fully-fledged pirate sim was seemingly always Ubisoft's goal. After more than a decade in development ...

The flag sports a white skull surrounded by the words "PMC Wagner Group" in both English and Russian. The cause of the crash is still unclear, but villagers near the scene told Reuters shortly ...

According to tracking website SteamDB, however, this number spiked on February 16: the day Skull and Bones finally released after years of troubled development. Black Flag rose to 1,679 players ...