India, Oct. 9 -- An explosive recent report has put Ubisoft's flagship series, Assassin's Creed, under the scanner.

On Wednesday, Game File, a gaming news portal, exclusively reported that an installation in the Assassin's Creed series was canceled over fears of political backlash. According to the report, an Assassin's Creed installation set in the US Civil War era was canceled in 2024 over fears of political backlash in the current political climate in the US.

The report claims that the game, set in the Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction era, planned to feature Yashuke, the assassin, as a black man who confronts members of the Ku Klux Klan, the notorious white supremacist group founded in 1865.

The report, done by Stephen To...