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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013, Ubisoft Montreal) is an open-world pirate action-adventure starring Edward Kenway in the 1715 Caribbean, with seamless naval combat and boarding; remade as Black Flag Resynced (Ubisoft Singapore, July 9, 2026).
Assassin's Creed Mirage
Assassin's Creed Mirage is a 2023 Ubisoft Bordeaux action-adventure game set in ninth-century Abbasid Baghdad, starring Basim of Valhalla; a stealth-focused return to series roots with the History of Baghdad codex and the free Valley of Memory expansion.
Assassin's Creed Nexus VR
Assassin's Creed Nexus VR is a first-person virtual reality action-adventure game by Ubisoft, released in 2023 for Meta Quest headsets, starring Ezio Auditore, Connor, and Kassandra across historical settings.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Assassin's Creed Odyssey, also called AC Odyssey, is Ubisoft Quebec's 2018 open-world action RPG set in ancient Greece during the Peloponnesian War, starring Spartan mercenaries Alexios or Kassandra, with dialogue choices, naval combat, and a mercenary bounty system.
Assassin's Creed Origins
Assassin's Creed Origins (AC Origins) is Ubisoft's 2017 action RPG set in Ptolemaic Egypt, starring Medjay Bayek of Siwa and Aya; it introduced the series' RPG formula, Senu the eagle, and the educational Discovery Tour mode.
Assassin's Creed Rogue
Assassin's Creed Rogue, also called AC Rogue, is a 2014 Ubisoft Sofia action-adventure game for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC where ex-Assassin Shay Patrick Cormac hunts his former Brotherhood as a Templar in the Seven Years' War; remastered in 2018.
Assassin's Creed Shadows
Assassin's Creed Shadows (2025), Ubisoft Quebec's open-world stealth action RPG set in late Sengoku-period feudal Japan, starring shinobi Naoe and samurai Yasuke, with dynamic seasons, light-based stealth, and Anvil engine raytraced lighting.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (2015, Ubisoft Quebec) is a Victorian London action-adventure with twins Jacob and Evie Frye, rope-launcher traversal, carriage driving, and gang-war borough liberation; Metacritic 76, last 'old-AC' entry before Origins.
Assassin's Creed Unity
Assassin's Creed Unity (AC Unity) is Ubisoft's 2014 action-adventure stealth game set in revolutionary Paris, starring Arno, with four-player co-op, a rebuilt Anvil engine, a buggy 2014 launch, and a free 60 FPS PS5/Xbox Series X|S patch in 2026.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Assassin's Creed Valhalla (Eivor saga) is Ubisoft's 2020 action RPG set in ninth-century England, developed by 14 studios led by Ubisoft Montreal, with raids, settlement building, the Orlog dice minigame, and three major expansions.
Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles
Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles is a 2008 Gameloft-developed, Ubisoft-published Nintendo DS and mobile prequel to Assassin's Creed, set in 1190, following Altaïr's hunt for the Chalice; Metacritic 58, ports delisted in 2013.
Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines
Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines is a 2009 action-adventure game for the PlayStation Portable, part of the Assassin's Creed franchise, following Altaïr as he pursues the last Templars to Cyprus.
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010, Ubisoft Montreal) is the third Assassin's Creed game, set in Renaissance Rome with Ezio Auditore, introducing assassin recruitment and the series' first multiplayer.
Assassin's Creed: Memories
Assassin's Creed: Memories is a 2014 free-to-play iOS card battler and RPG by Ubisoft, set in Abstergo's mobile Animus across eras from the Third Crusade to feudal Japan, with 20v20 guild battles; Metascore 48, later shut down.
Assassin's Creed: Pirates
Assassin's Creed: Pirates, a 5 December 2013 Ubisoft Paris mobile spin-off of Black Flag, stars captain Alonzo Batilla hunting La Buse's treasure through ship-only naval combat; Metascore 67, later delisted.
Assault (horse)
Assault (1943-1971) was a Texas-bred King Ranch Thoroughbred, the seventh and only Texas-bred American Triple Crown winner, taking the 1946 Derby, Preakness, and Belmont for trainer Max Hirsch; nicknamed the Club-Footed Comet.
Assault of Nancy Kerrigan
Assault of Nancy Kerrigan: January 6, 1994 baton attack on the figure skater at Cobo Arena, Detroit, plotted by Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband; led to Harding's hindering-prosecution plea, lifetime skating ban, and the 1994 Lillehammer scandal.
Assetto Corsa
Assetto Corsa: 2014 Kunos Simulazioni PC racing simulator (Steam Early Access 2013), laser-scanned circuits, advanced tyre model, huge modding scene, 20M+ franchise users; sibling title Assetto Corsa Competizione.
Assetto Corsa Rally
Assetto Corsa Rally (ACR) is a rally simulation by Supernova Games Studios with Kunos Simulazioni, published by 505 Games, in Steam Early Access since November 13, 2025; first rally game with laser-scanned stages, Unreal Engine 5 rendering, Assetto Corsa Evo physics.
Assist (basketball)
Assist (basketball): a pass leading directly to a made field goal, credited to the passer. Also called dime. NBA rule requires immediate reaction toward the basket; John Stockton holds the all-time record with 9,922.
Asso pigliatutto
Asso pigliatutto (Scopa d'assi) is an Italian Scopa variant where a played Ace captures all table cards. 40-card deck, 2-4 players, Scopa scoring; whether the Ace capture scores a scopa varies by tradition.
Associação Chapecoense de Futebol
Associação Chapecoense de Futebol (Verdão do Oeste, ACF), Brazilian football club founded 10 May 1973 in Chapecó, Santa Catarina; 2016 Copa Sudamericana champion awarded after the LaMia plane crash, seven state titles, Série B champion 2020.
Associate international cricket in 2026
Associate international cricket in 2026: ICC Associate Members' year, centered on the Men's T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka with nine associates including debutant Italy, plus 2028 qualification reform, board suspensions, and rankings.
Associate international cricket in 2026–27
Associate international cricket in 2026–27 covers ICC Associate Member fixtures, including the final rounds of League Two, the Challenge League, and Asia sub-regional T20 qualifiers.
Association football
Association football (soccer): 11-a-side ball game under the 17 Laws of the Game, governed by The IFAB (four British associations plus FIFA). Over 240 million players; record €38bn European market and €11.2bn top-club revenues in 2023/24.
Association football during World War I
Association football in World War I: England's 1914/15 season played under protest, then league and FA Cup suspended 1915-1919 for regional wartime competitions; Footballers' Battalion formed; women's munitionettes teams boomed before the FA's 1921 ban.
Association football positions
Association football positions: goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, and forward roles on the pitch, their history from the 2-3-5 pyramid and W-M to hybrid roles like the false nine and inverted full-back, and how data analysis now defines player roles.
Association football tactics
Association football tactics: team systems of positioning, pressing, and movement in soccer, from the 2-3-5 pyramid and W-M to total football, tiki-taka, and gegenpressing, described through formations such as 4-4-2 and 4-2-3-1.
Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations
The Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF), founded in 1984 in Lausanne, is a Swiss association of IOC-recognized federations whose sports are not on the Olympic program.
Association of Tennis Professionals
Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), men's professional tennis governing body founded 1972 at the US Open; first executive director Jack Kramer; runs ATP Tour, Challenger Tour, Champions Tour, and PIF ATP Rankings.