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An off-screen image of the next Assassins Creed game has popped up on the internet - and three separate Eurogamer sources have confirmed it is indeed legit.The image was posted to Reddit by user shoutouttoashraf (a now-deleted username that looks a lot like a reference to Ashraf Ismail, a Ubisoft staffer who worked on Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag and is currently down as working on an unannounced project at Ubisoft Montreal). It depicts a player character on a boat who wields a bow and arrow and wears a shield on their back.The leaked image of Assassins Creed: Origins, now hosted on Imgur.Last week a report by WWG.com claimed the next Assassins Creed was called Assassins Creed: Origins and is a series prequel. Eurogamer sources have confirmed this is indeed the name of the game, it is a prequel and its out later this year for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.The image confirms boats return to the series after starring in Black Flag. A story from 2016 by Kotaku revealed the game, then codenamed Empire, would be set in Egypt.The image also reveals the Assassinate the Crocodile mission, and includes the following text: Follow Shadya to Khenuts villa. Khenut was a Queen of Egypt and the wife of King Unas who lived during the time of the Fifth dynasty of Egypt.With E3 just a matter of weeks away, it wont be long before Ubisoft unveils Assassins Creed: Origins, which is hotly anticipated after the series took a year off following Syndicate. A Ubisoft representative told Eurogamer: We wont be making a comment on any rumours or speculations.Additional reporting by Tom Phillips. The video game industry is fraught with leaks, and its even more fraught with fake leaks, with more nefarious sorts trying to capitalize on gamers thirst for information just to get a little joy. Weve seen that very recently, with the supposed leak of Grand Theft Auto VI, via a voice actors résumé. Of course, the voice actor himself said that wasnt his résumé and that hes never used the website in question.But every now and again, a leak turns out to be true. In the case of Assassins Creed Origins, we definitely overlooked one that happened to be dead-on. This one originally came from 4chan back in May, and was later detailed on a Reddit thread. Sure, there were a lot of easily predictable details (releasing later this year, no Nintendo Switch version, etcetera), but the meat of the leak was remarkably on-point. Of course, it came at a time when everyone was so bogged down by leaks of varying veracity, such as the infamous fake trailer created by a French game designer, that no one knew what to believe.But, here are a few details that only a true leak could have predicted, each of which turned out to be true:Using the Hawk to ScoutThe leak insisted that there would be a new mechanic to look around buildings and whole areas: a hawk. The protagonist would deploy this hawk similarly to a game like Ghost Recon Wildlands or the Owl in Far Cry Primal. This hawk would be used to mark enemies and other areasobjects of potential interest.Of course, anyone who has seen the gameplay footage that came out around E3 can tell you, this hawk is very real, and it does exactly what the leak said it was going to. The only thing slightly off about the leak was the name of the Hawk, but the leak said the name he had was a placeholder name.No TowersBecause of the new scouting and mapping system, the leak suggested that the signature Towers from Assassins Creed games would no longer be present. No longer would you need to climb vast buildings to synchronize the map so youd see all the relevant objects and routes and such. Could it be true?Why yes. Yes it could. And yes it is. Ubisoft confirmed this change at the same time as the hawk information was released. Sorry to all those who liked to spend their valuable video game time clamoring up buildings and pressing a button, but this leak showed its accuracy once again.No MultiplayerMultiplayer, while never being the premier offering of an Assassins Creed game, has been a mainstay in almost every game since Assassins Creed: Brotherhood. So, to hear some supposed leaker on 4chan tell everyone it suddenly wasnt going to be there was just all about anyone needed to throw this leak in the fake and lame file.But, not so fast, as more details came to light about Assassins Creed Origins, it became more and more clear that this would be the case, until finally Ubisoft, themselves confirmed it: no multiplayer. Womp Womp.There Will Be Microtransactions (Unconfirmed, but Likely True)The leak plainly stated that there would be Microtransactions, but Ubisoft has yet to confirm this explicitly. However, there was something funny about the announcement that there would be no multiplayer, though. If you read closely, they seem to have heavily implied the presence of microtransactions. Ill put the quote below, and you can judge for yourself.Assassins Creed Origins is primarily a single-player experience. We do have online features that are there to enhance that experience. Later in the (marketing) campaign, well get into more details about those online features but its primarily a single-player experience Emphasis added.No Naval Combat – (Unconfirmed, but Likely True, to an Extent)Ship combat was a huge part of Assassins Creed III, so much so that they made an entire game out of the concept with Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag. And while Ubisoft has been rather tight-lipped about the exact nature of the ships in Assassins Creed Origins, it seems that the primary purpose of the ships is changing drastically.While the developer has been insistent that the game would feature some form of naval combat, its unlikely to be anything like what weve played in previous games, likely focusing on smaller, more intimate battles with less firepower, perhaps even more of the cinematic variety. This is based on their lack of public commitment to any one stance or the other. They want the middle ground, which is to say it will be there, but …

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