It's finally happened: Assassin's Creed Shadows is going full meta. Naoe and Yasuke's journey is still a story within a story, but this time, it's framed through the Animus Hub. You, the player, are using the Animus – not Layla, Loki, or anyone else – and that means our perception of the past could well be manipulated.

Speaking to PSU, Marc-Alexis Côté, head of the Assassin's Creed brand at Ubisoft, was asked about the Animus Hub, which also serves as a platform for the firm's inevitable microtransactions. He said Ubisoft will "use the Hub as a platform to link our different experiences together.

Shadows pulls back on the modern-day storyline of Assassin's Creed, but this gives the opportunity for Ubisoft to make a plot fans could love.