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Unnamed sources cited by Xbox World 360 as saying that Michel Ancel’s highly anticipated sequel will, in fact, release in this console generation. This comes despite Ancel himself making comments indicating that it will not make that deadline. More »

Speaking to Gamasutra, Rayman creator Michel Ancel has said he doesn’t enjoy Mario.

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Thanks to the wonders of mobile phone technology, you too can see the exclusive Beyond Good & Evil 2 presentation from Montpellier In Game 2011.

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The latest Rayman Origins trailer’s shown 10 ways the little dude can travel through his 2D platforming rebirth, including running up walls and bouncing. The Ubi wunderkind’s sumptuous return only ever looks better: check below and see. It’s out on November 25 for PS3, 360 and Wii.

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Michel Ancel has said that issues with the scope of Beyond Good and Evil 2 is the reason why it’s waiting until the next-generation before we see anything else on it.

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Rayman Origins is beautiful enough that you’d expect Ubisoft to keep the middleware powering for itself, but it plans to make the tech freely available.

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Michel Ancel has clarified why Rayman Origins made the jump to a retail release, saying it was how “the franchise works.”

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Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still in development, series creator Michel Ancel has said, but it will skip the current line of hardware platforms.

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Ubisoft’s Michel Ancel has said in the latest issue of Game Informer that while he has been working on Beyond Good and Evil 2 for “a while” now, he took a bit of a break to work on Rayman Origins.

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Microsoft’s now added Ubisoft’s Beyond Good and Evil HD to its House Party line-up. The title, now available on Xbox Live Arcade, will set you back 800 MS points and comes in at a hefty 1.68Gb. Buy it, play as Jade with her pig friend Pey’j, love it and then demand for the whereabouts of Beyond Good and Evil 2. It’s all good.

Queue it up here.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has said work on Beyond Good & Evil 2 has never stopped, and the team is continuing to hammer away on it.

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Ubisoft will release the first episode of Rayman Origins this Christmas for PS3 and 360.

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Good news first: Beyond Good & Evil 2 is definitely alive. If Ubisoft corporate’s overly indulgent “yes” didn’t convince you, perhaps a reassuring pat on the back from series creator Michel Ancel will do the trick.

Now the not-quite-so-good news: Ancel has big, big plans for the game, but he wants to carry them out with a tiny team. Translation: more waiting. A lot more waiting.

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“Hello, sir. Yes, and if you’ll just sign right here…”

“Um, excuse me, but what are you delivering, exactly?”

“Why, it’s the rain you ordered, of course. For your parade.”

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Ubisoft’s Michel Ancel has told All Gamers that Beyond Good and Evil 2 will be bigger, more immersive and include more investigations.

Loads of returning characters are expected, and it’ll retain the spirit of the first game, the developer said.

Ancel also mentioned that due to the constraints of PS2′s Emotion Engine last time out, the firm did not make the game the way it was envisioned. That’s all changed for the sequel, he said.

The game’s currently in pre-production, so it’s going to be a while before a concrete release date is announced along with platforms.

Thanks, Gamezine.

According to this JeuxVideo story, Michel Ancel has apparently confirmed that Beyond Good & Evil 2 has been in production for the past year, but Ubisoft isn’t decided on whether or not to move into a production phase.

The story says that between 10-12 people are working on the game.

Don’t blame us if some of this is lost in translation.

Beyond Good & Evil was probably the most criminally ignored videogame in living memory, a genre-busting adventure involving political intrigue, photo-journalism and a hovercraft. Please, in the names of all the baby Jesuses, make this game.