The game was first rumored to be in development in July 2008, when it was
told that Assassin's Creed producer Jade Raymond was working on a
new game. It was later announced at E3 2008, along with a trailer. It was later
revealed that Raymond was not working on the game.[4] Development
of the game experienced various delays until it was confirmed that the original
developers, Darkworks, would not be working on it any longer due to a "mutual
decision" and that the studio had other obligations, and that the game would
instead be finished at Ubisoft Shanghai's studio.[5] On
August 2009, various screenshots of an old build of the game were leaked onto
the Internet. [6]
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said at the start of 2010 that the studio was
"totally re-engineering the product