The Daily Populous Thursday October 24th, 2024 night edition
Authored by insider-gaming.com and submitted by Simple_Key_5112

It was just yesterday that the news broke regarding the (now former) team working on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. It was claimed that the team had been disbanded and that a sequel pitch for the game had been shot down by Ubisoft, who had reportedly ‘made it clear’ just weeks after the game was released that these very steps would be on the cards.

Now, Insider Gaming is exclusively reporting that former Prince of Persia team members have migrated to other projects—one is working on a Rayman Remake. But not all is sunshine and rainbows.

Per our sources close to the situation, the unannounced Rayman Remake is under development with the codename ‘Project Steambot’, and it’s being pieced together by a team located primarily at Ubisoft Milan. This studio has directly contributed to the creation of more than two dozen Ubisoft games over a twenty-year window.

Our sources have also confirmed that Michel Ancel, the creator of Rayman (and other franchises like Beyond Good & Evil), is in place as a consultant. This has raised some concerns among team members, least of all because Ancel found himself embroiled in a ‘toxic leadership’ debacle pioneered by a French news outlet in 2020.

That is enough to have cast a less-than-popular light on the Rayman Remake project internally at Ubisoft, even if Ancel is only on board from a consultancy perspective.

It has been estimated that around a dozen developers from the disbanded Prince of Persia team have migrated to work on the Rayman Remake. Elsewhere, other developers have pivoted to work on Beyond Good & Evil 2 and the next Ghost Recon title.

Are you looking forward to a Rayman Remake? Let us know on the Insider Gaming forum.

For more Insider Gaming coverage, check out our explanation of the Black Ops 6 ‘pay-to-hear’ scandal

barlowd_rappaport on October 23rd, 2024 at 17:36 UTC »

Hoodlum Havoc!

therejectethan on October 23rd, 2024 at 15:25 UTC »

Would love a rayman Legends sequel. That game was criminally good

CadeMan011 on October 23rd, 2024 at 15:06 UTC »

It's gonna be Rayman 2. It's always Rayman 2