
With that in mind, stay tuned for further updates as they become available, right here at Shacknews. Whatever’s going on with Beyond Good and Evil 2, Ubisoft continues to claim it is coming. This is also despite previous director Michel Ancel exiting the project and the company amid toxic workplace allegations. The game has been in development for over a decade and continues to be pushed back, despite Ubisoft insisting that development is still coming along. Additionally, to reduce costs, Ubisoft announced that three unannounced games had been canceled and Skull and Bones had been delayed from its upcoming March release date to late 2023 or even early 2024.īeyond Good and Evil 2 has been in a strange place not unlike Skull and Bones.

Unfortunately, despite their quality, Just Dance 2023 and Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope failed to meet sales expectations. It was just last week that the company shared a troubling report of underperformance throughout the end of 2022. Ubisoft insists Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still coming along, even after recent other cancellations and delays at the publisher. “Beyond Good and Evil 2’s development is underway and the team is hard at work to deliver on its ambitious promise,” a Ubisoft spokesperson shared. Specifically, when asked if Beyond Good and Evil 2 was among the recent cancellations or affected by them, Ubisoft said that the game’s development remains on track for the time being. Ubisoft shared this information with PCGamesN in a recent correspondence related to Beyond Good and Evil 2.

Ubisoft itself said that despite setbacks, development on Beyond Good and Evil 2 continues and is unaffected. Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still a thing, even following a troubling round of Ubisoft news in which the company canceled three unannounced games and delayed Skull and Bones once again. Wild Sheep is based in Montpellier, France (the same location as Ubisoft Montpellier), and Ancel's arrival at the indie studio doesn't mean he'll leave Ubisoft Montpellier.Skull and Bones isn’t the only long-delayed project at Ubisoft that has seemingly refused to die. The statement from Ubisoft about Beyond Good & Evil 2 comes after it was revealed this week that Ancel had joined game development startup Wild Sheep, where he will work on an original title alongside a team of a dozen developers. what makes this situation all the more alarming is that beyond good and evil 2 was actually announced all the way back in 2008 before going silent. Earlier this year, Ancel revealed new concept art for Jade, the game's main character. 28 Porco Wed 9th Feb 2022 Dpishere i agree. The sequel was first announced by Ancel in 2008, at which time he confirmed that the project had already been in preproduction for a year. "The entire team is excited about the direction this extremely ambitious project is taking, and we'll have more to share later, as it progresses."Ģ003's original Beyond Good & Evil came to GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC. "What we can say is that while and the team at Ubisoft Montpellier are working with the core tenets of BG&E, they're developing something that aspires to push past the boundaries of a proverbial sequel and leverages next-gen technologies to deliver a truly surprising, innovative, and exceptional game," the representative said.

The Ubisoft representative went on to say that Beyond Good & Evil 2 will come to "next-gen" platforms (presumably Xbox One and PlayStation 4), and that it is more ambitious in nature than what you might expect from a traditional sequel. "It's still far too early to give many details about this new title."

"In many ways, is an inimitable game-it appeals to all generations of gamers and is an inspiration behind many of Ubisoft Montpellier's past and future games," a Ubisoft representative told Polygon. Ubisoft Montpellier continues to work on this "extremely ambitious project," the developer says. Just because we have not heard much in the way of official details about Ubisoft's long-awaited adventure game Beyond Good & Evil 2 for some time does not mean the game is canceled.
