Assassin's Creed: Black Flag: Resynced. That's a lot of colons. Image via Ubisoft

It feels kind of weird for there to be only one big Ubisoft game on the horizon, doesn't it? They've got Assassin's Creed , Far Cry, Ghost Recon, Watch Dogs and a million other franchises kicking about, and yet the biggest thing they have teed up this year is a remake of a game from 2013.

Not that I'm complaining about the recently-announced Black Flag: Resynced , though. The original was a swashbuckling adventure that was honestly too good for the Assassin's Creed brand, and I'm excited to see it redone on current-gen hardware. Development on the project even seems to have progressed further than the announcement — which featured only a single piece of concept art — would have you believe.

Tom Henderson , a proven-reliable gaming industry insider, has revealed that Resynced will drop on July 19th, with the game entering full-on marketing mode soon.…