VIRLANUbisoft Montpellier is the developer and publisher of Beyond Good and Evil 2, a potential action-adventure video game that serves as a prequel to the 2003 game Beyond Good & Evil. The game’s development has been marked by uncertainty, doubt, and rumors about its future, according to media reports. The game was initially teased as a sequel at Ubidays 2008 and then officially announced as a prequel at Ubisoft’s E3 2017 conference after almost a decade of silence, but no information regarding its release window or target platform(s) has been disclosed.
Due to its extended development and lack of a release date, Beyond Good and Evil 2 has been dubbed “vaporware” by industry figures like Jason Schreier. In 2022, the game broke the record for the longest development for a AAA video game, previously held by Duke Nukem Forever (2011), at over 15 years.
Ubisoft game designer and creative director for Beyond Good and Evil 2, Emile Morel, has tragically passed away at the age of 40. His death was first noticed on LinkedIn, where two colleagues of Morel expressed their condolences and paid tribute to him. “A cherished colleague for over a decade at Ubisoft Montpellier, we laughed […]