UPDATE: It now looks more likely than ever that Michel Ancel and Ubisoft are working on Beyond Good & Evil 2. Today, the first game's creator posted an image of a burly humanoid shark on Instagram - a race that showed up more than once in the 2003 original.
We also now have a clearer idea of why Ancel would start posting these images. As Eurogamer points out, today marks a major Ubisoft shareholder meeting, at which media conglomerate Vivendi could gain a controlling stake in the French publisher.
Speaking to IGN last week, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot called the potential of a takeover a "disaster" for Ubisoft, and said that if it happened, he would almost certainly be ousted from the company he co-founded. Clearly, Ancel is onside - his caption alongside the new image: "Ready for the fight. Independence #ubisoft day".
ORIGINAL STORY: Since a certain 2008 teaser trailer, talk of Ubisoft's in-development projects has continuously circled around whether Beyond Good & Evil 2 - a sequel to the critically acclaimed but commercially shunned 2003 adventure - would ever see the light of day.
The first game's creator, Michel Ancel is currently working on his own indie project, Wild, as well as a game for Ubisoft, with CEO Yves Guillemot confirming that the project was indeed a Beyond Good and Evil sequel.
Or perhaps that should be "prequel" - Ancel today uploaded what looks like concept art for the game, featuring a human with a anthropomorphic pig companion:
Reading into it a little deeper, the first game's Pey'j character was a boar-like mechanic, so the image could be showing off a young Pey'j learning his trade.
The image's caption, "Thanks #ubisoft for making this possible", all but confirms that it has something to do with Ancel's in-house project and, alongside Yves Guillemot's previous comments, seems to affirm that this has something to do with BG&E. Exciting!
Rumours from earlier this year seemed to suggest that it was in fact Nintendo funding Beyond Good & Evil 2, and that it would be a 2017 NX exclusive - neither company would comment on the speculation.
At a recent Ubisoft event attended by IGN, Ancel was in attendance, but not giving interviews. Guillemot was slightly more cagey about Ancel's current work for Ubisoft, refusing to say what the game might be. He did, however, say that the Rayman creator's work on Wild outside the company would improve whatever he made for Ubisoft in the future:
"Michel is a genius, so we want to make sure he's happy with what he does," Guillemot explained, "and he wanted to try something small, and outside. Michel is also learning a lot when he's doing things, so the people that play his next Ubisoft game will benefit a lot from what he learns outside.
"So it's no loss for gamers - first they will have another game from him, but everything he's learning there will help to have an even better product from him with us."
Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and that is one of the cuter pigs he has seen. Follow him on Twitter.
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