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[UPDATE] Ubisoft officially confirmed the game with a teaser trailer - watch it here! May 28, 2008

Knighted video game designer Michel Ancel revealed in an interview with JeuxVideo that a sequel to the critically- acclaimed commercial failure Beyond Good & Evil is currently in pre-production. A team of 10 to 12 people are working on the game, and for some head-scratching reason Ubisoft is not yet giving the full green-light for the project to go into real production phase. BG&E may have been a commercial failure but scour the nets and you'll find legions of fans that are still joining the party after finding the gem of a game in bargain-bins-- and those remaining copies are fast drying up; should you want yours, I suggest running to your nearest retailer (bonus hint: it was released in 2003 for the PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and Windows PC).

Anyway, make this game Ubisoft! No dilly-dallyin'! Re-release the first BG&E (so the rest of the world can play the increasingly hard-to-find title) with a coupon for the sequel, bundle the first game when the sequel comes out, whatever, just don't let it die in a basement somewhere, 'kay? The way I see it is, even if you move it to production now, it'll still be 2 years too long for us players to get to it in stores, so chop-chop, I say!

Imagine, a remake of the first game on the Wii, like Capcom did for Okami (just make sure to do something more than just shake-motions like you did for the Prince of Persia 2 remake for the Wii, Ubisoft! -- i can see it now, the Dai-jo-wielding, the picture-taking are perfect for the Wii-mote), and the sequel on all current-gen platforms - Wii, PS3, Xbox360 - plus the PS2 (since it looks like it'll be around for another 5 years).

As adventure games go, BG&E is one of the finest I've played, and just to give you an idea, let me say this: when I upgraded from my Gamecube to the Wii (otherwise known as "Gamecube 1.5") I traded/sold/gave away all of my 'cube games except BG&E and Legend of Zelda: Windwaker. Sure the story's been done before (uncovering the workings of a government conspiracy beyond measure) but sneaking around as a journalist with a camera and infiltrating restrticted areas hasn't been this much fun since trying to get into the girls' changing room! I kid, I kid (for that you'd have to play Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - you'll know what I'm talking about). Plus, in BG&E you get a walking, talking pig as a sidekick! (watch the trailer below - no pigs in it, though - and a link to a thoughtful review from way back when in 2004.)
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Like another colleague of mine, I too have been lax in the updating department.
I'll come out and say it, I am Iron Man I mean, I was busy. And lazy.
We'll see how much longer this newfound impulse to blab lasts. Just don't hold your breath, 'cause I wouldn't myself.

And is it just me or was Robert Downey Jr. born to rock as Tony Stark?!!!

What else happened while I was blanked out...
Speed Racer was released (yeah, it's a pathetic two posts down that i wrote about 'first look'), Rain smoked Stephen Colbert on DDR (youtube), Grand Theft Auto 4 was unleashed and is taking names across the world (immigrant struggles), Metal Gear Solid 4 t-shirts aren't available at the New York Uniqlo store (at least not yet, bummer), I continue to suck at drums in Rock Band (pathetic), got new head phones (pretty cool - update soon), beat Guild Wars' first campaign (update soon again)...

read on when I write on, friends.