The Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag remake sea shanty siren song grows even more deafening, as Ubisoft reupload a bunch of sailing tunes

We’ll heave him up an away we’ll go. ‘Way, me Assassin’s Creeda! We’ll heave him up an away we’ll go. We’re all bound over to Ubisoft’s official music YouTube channel! We’ll heave him up from down below. ‘Way, me Assassin’s Creeda! Oh, this is where a bunch of the original Black Flag’s sea shanties have just been reuploaded, potentially providing yet another hint that we’re all soon bound to be playing that long-rumoured remake of the pirassassin adventure!

This sudden influx of classic ditties might not have meant much in a vacuum, but it follows many reports about the badly kept secret that is the remake and a PEGI rating that’s about as close as you can get to a seal of approval short of Ubisoft finally giving up the ghost anmd revealing the thing themselves.

If you fancy filling your brain with these pervasive earworms from the Age of Exploration once again, the fact 18 of them have been reuploaded to Ubisoft’s music channel within the past 24 hours makes doing so easy. These cuts of tunes ranging from Way Me Susianah, to Billy Riley, and We Be Three Poor Mariners appear to be the same ones originally released in the sea shanty compilation album released around the time of Black Flag’s original 2014 release.

Their appearance on this Ubisoft channel doesn’t just appear to be part of a regular cycle of randomly reuploading older material either – the other recent soundtrack excerpts uploaded there have all been timed up to mirror the release of new stuff by the publishers. For example, a lot of the most recent tunes prior to this Black flag deluge are from December’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora DLC and Assassin’s Creed Mirage’s Valley of Memory expansion from November.

So, while my personal favourite Black Flag sailing song The Worst Old Ship sadly isn’t among these reuploaded shanties, they certainly look like another in the litany of Remake signs that even any vessels whose lookout desperately needs new spectacles have spotted by now.

Relatively recent reporting’s alleged that said Remake, or Resynced if the PEGI rating has its name correct, is set to arrive in March. So, these tunes may be intended as something to help folks pass time while waiting out the last couple of months patrolling a deserted dock.