Ubisoft has said it is exploring bringing back the Rayman order.
The company told Kotaku that a Rayman project is in its “early stages” at its Montpellier and Milan studios.
It also showed that Rayman and Beyond the Good and the Bad writer Michel Ancel, who left the company in 2020, is consulting on the matter.
“We are pleased to confirm that Ubisoft Montpellier and Ubisoft Milan have recently begun an exploration phase of the Rayman brand,” said a Ubisoft spokesperson. “The project is still in its early stages and we will share more details later.”
“As creator of the Rayman brand, Michel Ancel is being consulted to ensure consistency within the universe,” they added.
Ubisoft commented on the upcoming project. Insider Gaming reported that a new version of Rayman is being built at the Mario + Rabbids studio Ubisoft Milan, with the help of the Montpellier developers.
He stated that the Montpellier team that developed Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was divided and Ubisoft decided not to prepare a sequel.
Most of those developers are said to have joined Montpellier’s Past Excellent and Wicked 2 team, with some packs moving to ‘Project Ovr’, Ghost Recon’s closest mainline game, and a similar number joining ‘Project Steambot’. ‘. , Rayman’s name.
The fifth and most recent entry in Ubisoft’s platform order was 2013’s Rayman Legends, which was developed through its Montpellier studio.