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"This is not how I imagined it would end": Ubisoft to lay off Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced devs at its Barcelona studio, with one calling the remake's release "bittersweet"

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Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
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Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
Genres · adventure
Release · Oct 29, 2013
Developer · Ubisoft Montreal
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