User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 04-06-'12 — E3 hub/@comment-78.149.243.142-20120610085824/@comment-5180246-20120610140855

It has been stated in GameInformer, they will not return in a way we've seen them before. The concept has been reworked, so there will be no groups of four or five scattered throughout the cities. And of course there will be different groups this time.