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Beyond Good & Evil 2 fans are celebrating a small piece of good news to come from Ubisoft’s major cull of projects, studios and people yesterday — that after almost two decades, the game that holds the Guinness World Record for the longest development still isn’t dead.
While yesterday saw the end of Ubisoft’s plans to release a Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake (a project that the company had been working on for at least six years) and five other unnamed games, no mention was made of Beyond Good & Evil 2, whose record-breaking development now spans almost 20 years, off and on.
Indeed, Beyond Good & Evil was named by Ubisoft as an ongoing franchise that would now be overseen by its reorganized “Creative House 4” division, dedicated to narrative driven and fantasy games. Separately, Insider Gaming has reported that the project is indeed still alive today, as the dust settles.
On reddit, Beyond Good & Evil’s long-suffering fans have reacted to the sequel’s survival by calling it “miraculous“, “insane” and simply “too big to fail.”
“It’s insane this game is still in production and survived,” dan_in_his_own_way wrote. “Don’t get me wrong, I want to play it
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