Ubisoft doubles down on release schedule: Avatar, Mario + Rabbids 2, and Skull & Bones all coming by March 31

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
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Ubisoft has confirmed some details on its video game line-up over the next year as part of the company's latest financial report.

The free-to-play sports game Roller Champions is set to come out in the first quarter of Ubisoft's fiscal year, which runs from April 1 through June 30. We're obviously already halfway through that period, so expect further details on the launch soon.

The next big three premium games from the publisher - Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, and Skull & Bones - are all coming later in the fiscal year, which concludes on March 31, 2023. Ubisoft chief financial officer Frédérick Duguet added during the investor Q&A that these games are "planned to be released in the second half of the fiscal year," so don't expect to see them before October.

All three games had already been confirmed for this fiscal year, but those launch windows are finally starting to narrow.

Duguet said during the conference call that Ubisoft expects to have "several free-to-play [games] coming out this [fiscal] year across all platforms," but the publisher has not confirmed which titles to expect beyond Roller Champions. A press release notes that some of these games will be based on Ubisoft's "biggest IPs."

Confirmed free-to-play games from Ubisoft include The Division: Heartland, Ghost Recon Frontline, XDefiant, and Project Q.

Other highly anticipated games, including Beyond Good & Evil 2, the untitled Star Wars game, and the next entry in the Assassin's Creed series, were not directly addressed in the financial report.

There are plenty more new games for 2022 to keep your eye on.

Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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