For those who don't know, Michel Ancel is a French game designer for Ubisoft. He is famed for creating Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil. There's a rumor going around that he is officially calling it quits and leaving Ubisoft, possibly to create his own studio. According to the rumor, he is interested in developing more classic style games. I would assume this may be a slight against Ubisoft for milking the Rabbids franchise and not getting back to Rayman as a platformer. Also in the rumor mill is that Beyond Good and Evil 2, the sequel to the popular action adventure game from 2003, is now either on hiatus or canned entirely. BGE2 has had a very shaky and uncertain future ever since that very first teaser a few years ago. It has gone through the mill with Ubisoft people flipflopping their words, saying it's canceled or still in development.
At any rate, a very sad day if this rumor is true. I kind of hope it isn't due to the fact that we'll probably never see a new real Rayman game. I think Ubisoft holds the rights to it. And all evidence points to a continued milked Rabbids franchise. Also sad for BGE. But maybe he'll make some newer greater games with his rumored studio. Maybe all this isn't happened at all though. I still have some hope for a TRUE Rayman 4 someday, it's one of my favorite game series.
http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=125045
At any rate, a very sad day if this rumor is true. I kind of hope it isn't due to the fact that we'll probably never see a new real Rayman game. I think Ubisoft holds the rights to it. And all evidence points to a continued milked Rabbids franchise. Also sad for BGE. But maybe he'll make some newer greater games with his rumored studio. Maybe all this isn't happened at all though. I still have some hope for a TRUE Rayman 4 someday, it's one of my favorite game series.
http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=125045