During Ubisoft’s recent fiscal third quarter investors call, it was mentioned that the heretofore mysterious follow-up to Assassin’s Creed II would be set in Rome, which sets Ezio up nicely (who will remain this game’s protagonist) to strike at the heart of the Templar’s headquarters in the city.

Further multiplayer features were hinted at during the call, such as that the general rule for Assassin’s Creed going forward would be that subsequent releases would include cooperative multiplayer, while “innovative” multiplayer was also ‘revealed’ by Ubisoft.

Spoiler alert, I guess.

It’s not yet clear whether this follow-up title is a full-blown sequel to Assassin’s Creed II, or simply a continuation of that particular story, or whether or not this trend will continue on a yearly basis while a ‘proper’ sequel is made to fill in alternative years of Assassin’s Creed franchise releases, so we’ll just have to wait until Ubisoft spills the beans.