Overview
- Multiple outlets reported on Monday that Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson says Ubisoft has canceled the extraction‑shooter project codenamed Maverick and reassigned its work to a new Far Cry title called Kodiak.
- Kodiak has reportedly passed conception and entered early development at Ubisoft’s Vantage Studios, with sources saying the team is reusing Maverick’s foundations while refocusing the game on player interactions and emergent, player‑driven stories.
- The next mainline Far Cry, codenamed Blackbird and commonly understood as Far Cry 7, remains in development but has experienced repeated internal delays and is expected to be the nearer‑term release compared with Kodiak.
- Reporters say Maverick was dropped in part because extraction shooters are a crowded, risky market and the project failed to win internal confidence, prompting Ubisoft to prioritize an open‑world approach that better fits the franchise’s strengths.
- Ubisoft has previously confirmed multiple Far Cry projects are underway, and this reshuffle could mean longer waits for players, more reuse of internal tech and teams, and a company focus on fewer, higher‑profile Far Cry releases rather than spin‑off experiments.