When the Nintendo 3DS was first unveiled, one of Ubisoft's first games for the handheld was supposed to be Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy. It won't be any more, because that game's been shitcanned.

Speaking with Joystiq, Ubisoft writer Darby McDevitt has said that Long Legacy is no more. Rather than being wasted, though, he says that it "kind of morphed" into the "idea" of Assassin's Creed: Revelations, the upcoming high-def release in the series due later this year.

While that could mean a few new gameplay tweaks have made it over, he's seems to be mostly talking about the game's setting and place within the universe, as the 3DS game was going to be about Ezio heading to the Holy Land. Which is where he's instead going inRevelations.

http://kotaku.com/5821445/the-assassins-creed-3ds-game-is-dead-but-some-parts-live-on

Looks like western publishers will repeat the scenario of ds support

They must have run out of stories for the consoles, so they took the 3DS one.

Can't blame them. The budget for the writers is already maxed out.

Bummer. I was looking forward to this.

No need to worry, the new 3DS title AC:The Final Frontier will have fresh ideas since it'll based in space *pew pew* aliens!!!

awww such a loss NOT!!

never saw AssAssins Creed as an interesting game anyway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeMrttj8Ucg

Was anybody planning on buying this?

To make another game that western publishers were willing to make for the PSP but not even for the 3DS...

The story I read about this on another site earlier today suggested that the project as a whole may not have been cancelled, just the initial idea, but we shall see.

Either way it's funny how different news sites interpret the same quotes differently.