Source Digital Spy Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag creative director Jean Guesdon has hinted at an October launch for the PS4. Asked whether there would be a delay between the current-generation release of Assassin's Creed 4 and its next-gen counterparts, Guesdon told Outside Xbox that all versions would ship at the same time With Assassin's Creed 4 due to launch on October 29 in North America and November 1 in Europe, the statement suggests that the PS4 will be released in October, and potentially a new Xbox too. Confirmed in February, Assassin's Creed 4 will be set in the Caribbean in 1715, with players taking control of Edward Kenway, the grandfather of Assassin's Creed 3 protagonist Connor Kenway. Said to be the biggest Assassin's Creed game yet, it will feature 50 unique locations including the cities of Havana, Kingston and Nassau, as well as fishing villages, smugglers' coves, plantations and jungles.