{"id":125919,"date":"2022-07-22T08:27:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125919"},"modified":"2022-07-22T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T07:48:38","slug":"ubisoft-delays-avatar-frontiers-of-pandora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/125919-ubisoft-delays-avatar-frontiers-of-pandora","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft delays Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/staticctf.akamaized.net\/8aefmxkxpxwl\/75A3n8f1wO8hjT0yb11BfQ\/20989ff5870948d75e15aabf3d8c6835\/Ubisoft_FY23_Q1_Sales_English.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> that the <em>Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora<\/em> release date will be pushed to sometime in 2023 or 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make Avatar a video game industry brand, and it&#8217;s important for us that we come with something perfect,\u201d said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot as part of the company\u2019s first-quarter report.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft first announced <em>Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora <\/em>in 2017, before unveiling the game\u2019s first trailer in 2021 \u2014 which included the announcement of the original release window of sometime in 2022 shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>This is no longer the case, and fans of the franchise will have to wait at least a year to explore Pandora in Ubisoft\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this delay, Ubisoft revealed in its earnings report that it&#8217;s still set to release <em>Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope<\/em> on 20 October and the pirate simulator <em>Skull and Bones<\/em> on 8 November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The company also noted that Ubisoft Forward will return with updates and news on multiple games on 10 September 2022, which will include the unveiling of the future of the Assassin\u2019s Creed franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the <em>Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora<\/em> trailer below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Axmg1E4HrVE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Read: <a title=\"Permalink to Crunchyroll reducing its monthly prices in South Africa\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/125892-crunchyroll-reducing-its-monthly-prices-in-south-africa\" rel=\"bookmark\">Crunchyroll reducing its monthly prices in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft delays its upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora game to ensure it\u2019s perfect. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":125920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26381,1922,2664,733,1157],"class_list":["post-125919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-avatar-frontiers-of-pandora","tag-delay","tag-gaming","tag-ubisoft","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}