At either the recent Ubisoft Forward showcase, or the recent Summer Game Fest blowout, we didn't hear anything about Beyond Good and Evil2. In fact, we haven't heard anything about it for more than 1 year, and it's not as much about the game as the terrible working conditions reported by developer Ubisoft Montpellier over there, counting the number of times Ubisoft promised BG &E2 would still be in development, starting in 2023.

But now we can up that number in one, because Ubisoft has given the word, yes, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still going on,

The latest reassurance is via Ubisoft's Beyond Good and Evil 20th Anniversary Edition website. But after somehow leaking bg & e Remastered not once but twice, it's up, it's official, and it's about what players can expect to collect exclusive cosmetic rewards as you progress through the game and explore the planet."

When you think it might be a typo or some old asset, the press blast email that went out today announcing a new edition of Beyond Good and Evil made the same reference:

"This special edition features [a] Hunt where players can discover more about Jade's past and collect exclusive cosmetic rewards. This exclusive new mission also reveals more about the story link Beyond Good and Evil 2, a permanent commission to the ubisoft franchise "

So you have it — it's twice, and that's enough for me.

As to when BG and E2 occur, it remains a very big question mark. News writer Joshua Warren predicted that one day it would appear after the end of the age of the stars.This surprised me when I googled and discovered that it wasn't what he made up, it was actually one of the 5 eras in the universe 1.This will come to a conclusion after most of the existing stars run out of fuel, leaving only white and brown dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes. I don't know what it will be over the years, but he may be right, as Beyond Good and Evil2 surpassed Duke Nukem's world record for "Longest development period of Video Games" in 2022.