India, Oct. 10 -- There was a post-Civil War Assassin's Creed in development-and this is why Ubisoft cancelled it. Ubisoft has apparently cancelled an Assassin's Creed set in post-Civil War America, a place fans have been clamoring for since Assassin's Creed III. Internally titled Project Obsidian, the game was supposed to tell a story during the Reconstruction era through the Assassin Brotherhood, featuring turmoil between liberation, revenge, and rebirth.

It was part of the Assassin's Creed Infinity initiative: Ubisoft's big plan to link multiple stories together into one living entertainment experience. After (official and unofficial) months of internal restructurings, the game was dead. Ubisoft has since poured resources into Codenam...