Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise will, at long last, visit feudal Japan, and give fans “a very powerful shinobi fantasy,” franchise executive producer Marc-Alexis Côté said Saturday during the publisher’s Ubisoft Forward live stream showcase of upcoming games. The game does not yet have a name — beyond a code name, “Assassin’s Creed Red,” anyway — nor a launch date or window. But it is “our next premium flagship title and the future of our open-world RPG games on Assassin’s Creed,” Côté said. “Assassin’s Creed Red” is being developed by Ubisoft Quebec, which developed 2018’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. In addition to...