Black Flag Resynced, the much-anticipated remake of the classic pirate-themed Assassin's Creed installment, is set to release shortly, letting us revisit Edward Kenway, kill a million British soldiers, and sink a navy's worth of ships. It's all in the name of plunder, though.

The remake is visually quite impressive, but there's also a bunch of new content, such as quests, pets, improved ship battles, and all sorts. Below, I'll run through when you can play, but also explain about preloading so you can hop right in on launch.

Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced release times for each region

Black Flag Resynced releases on July 9 with the exception of just a few regions. The console release times are slightly different, since it comes out midnight local time on those platforms, but as for PC, here's when you can play the game:

• West Coast US: 7 am PDT
• East Coast US: 10 am EDT
• UK: 3 pm BST
• Europe: 4 pm CEST
• Australia: 12 am AEST (July 10)
• New Zealand: 2 pm NZDT (July 10)

For any other regions, the image above lists most locations. You can find Black Flag Resynced's technical requirements on the Steam page.

Does Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced have a preload?

Yes, Black Flag Resynced does have a preload option available and it's active right now, having started on July 7, meaning you can download it in advance on both PC and console. A good thing, too, since the game is reasonably large, requiring 65 GB available space.

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Sean's first PC games were Full Throttle and Total Annihilation and his taste has stayed much the same since. When not scouring games for secrets or bashing his head against puzzles, you'll find him revisiting old Total War campaigns, agonizing over his Destiny 2 fit, or still trying to finish the Horus Heresy. Sean has also written for EDGE, Eurogamer, PCGamesN, Wireframe, EGMNOW, and Inverse.