The main thing Cain wanted to say is that he’s out of retirement, partly because remote freelance work didn’t work out for him. The editor took the liberty to make the headline slightly more politicised than it needed to be.

IIRC this message was first used in AC1 and it felt right at the time because of the respectful approach to a (more or less) realistic historical setting made by a bunch of Canadians in a time when no one expected much of video games in terms of cultural respect. I remember it chaning my expection that the setting might be more than Prince-of-Persia-esque set dressing.