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During its quarterly earnings telephone call held Thursday, Ubisoft confirmed it plans to launch Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, also as the long-in-development pirate game Skull & Bones, all earlier the finish of its 2023 fiscal year, which will wrap up in April 2023. Announcer and games media personality Geoff Keighley attended the telephone call and shared a partial transcript of it on Twitter.

During the phone call, the company also stated that information technology would proceed to embrace free-to-play titles "across all geographies and platforms." Ubisoft has previously experimented with costless-to-play games such as the soon-to-be-sunset Hyper Scape. The company also has several free-to-play titles in development, such as Tom Clancy's XDefiant, and Ghost Recon Frontline.

Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora were both announced in 2022 with expected 2022 release windows. It'south more shocking to encounter Skull & Bones appear in Ubisoft's planned pipeline of upcoming games. The pirate-themed title started development in 2022 — nearly 10 years ago — and has seen numerous delays reportedly brought on past ever-irresolute visions for what kind of game it should exist. During the call, the visitor stated that the title would characteristic both a "multiplayer-get-go" focus and an open-world structure.

No update was provided on Beyond Proficient & Evil 2, another Ubisoft title that has allegedly experienced a similarly rough multi-year development. In late 2022, information technology was reported that the game was undergoing a "development crisis" exacerbated past the divergence of managing director Michel Ancel.