There's a preview on VG247 talking about multiplayer play in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, the next installment in Ubisoft's stealth/action series. They get into detail about the game's MP support, saying it "adds a new dimension to co-op, a system for creating your own multiplayer modes called Gamelab and a revamped interface to better allow in-game comms, among plenty more." They also separately highlight the news that Assassin’s Creed IV multiplayer will not include naval battles, describing how difficult it would be to implement this over seven consoles, and saying "ship battles aren’t really being the cool assassin." On a related note, we have some new multiplayer screenshots from the game, and VG247 also offers a multiplayer video.