What you need to know
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is an upcoming first-person adventure game from Ubisoft set in the cinematic Avatar universe.
- As part of Ubisoft’s FY23 Q1 earnings report, the company announced that the game has been delayed.
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is now slated to arrive in 2023 to 2024, as opposed to its original 2022 release window.
- A smaller, unannounced premium game was also delayed to the same period.
Ubisoft is taking another stab at translating the popular Avatar cinematic franchise to video games with an ambitious first-person adventure built exclusively for current-gen platforms. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora was originally slated for a release at some point in 2022, but Ubisoft’s recent earnings call for Q1 of its 2023 fiscal year changes those plans.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is now slated to release in 2023 or even 2024, with Ubisoft still “committed to delivering a cutting-edge immersive experience.” The company described the project as representing a “major multi-year opportunity,” and cited ongoing constraints in the wider video game industry as its reasons for delaying the title.
Alongside the announcement, Ubisoft revealed that a smaller, unannounced “premium game” is also being delayed out of 2022 into the same vague time period as Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. While details on this unannounced game are scarce, it’s possibly a stealth-focused Assassin’s Creed spin-off game. Unfortunately, we’ll likely have to wait even longer to learn more about this mysterious title.
There’s little information available on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, as well, although we know that Ubisoft is gunning straight for the most ambitious and greatest games with the Avatar game tie-in. The upcoming game will let players take control of a Na’vi as part of an expanded narrative adventure, in which players will explore the beautiful world of Pandora and take on an unknown threat. Hopefully, we’ll learn more about Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and the as-of-yet-unknown unannounced game in the near future.
