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]]>If you missed out on any of the free Ubisoft games over the last seven months, you're getting a second chance.
]]>Go grab this excellent platformer right now on PC.
]]>Rayman Origins will soon replace Splinter Cell and become a free Uplay game.
]]>Sony has revealed the the full list of compatible PS Vita games that can be played on PS TV ahead of its launch next month in North America.
]]>This weekend's big sale on GOG is particularly notable because it's a 60-percent markdown on every Ubisoft game they have, which includes Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut, Beyond Good and Evil, Rayman Origins, Splinter Cell, Far Cry 2 and so on. Some names there.
]]>Resident Evil Chronicles HD Collection, ICO, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Rayman Origins for PS Vita and Galaga Legions DX have been announced as part of the North American PlayStation Plus Instant Games collection for September.
]]>Rayman Legends will include around 40 levels from Rayman: Origins via an unlockable "Back to Origins" chapter, according to series creator Michel Ancel.
]]>PlayStation Plus members have a lot of free games to look forward to in June, starting with Demon's Souls, ICO & Shadow of the Colossu HD Collection and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
]]>Nintendo has updated its weekly, downloadable offerings for North America today, and this week you can pick up demos for HarmoKnight and Chasing Aurora and other goodies. Starting Monday, March 18 you can pick up LEGO City Undercover from the eShop and later on in the week on March 19 you can nab Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and Need for Speed: Most Wanted U.
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]]>Ubisoft's released a launch trailer for the 3DS version of Rayman Origins after it was confirmed it'd launch on June 5 in the US and the UK on June 8. Get it below, via Nintendo Life.
]]>After a few delays, Ubisoft has announced Rayman Origins 3DS will arrive in North America on June 5 and on June 8 in the UK. A demo version is now available in the Nintendo eShop. Thanks, NintendoLife.
]]>Nintendo has updated its eShop and DSiWare offerings this week with the Mario Kart 7 update, Kirby's Block Ball, and a demo for Rayman Origins. There’s more, and it’s all below.
]]>Sony has provided a content preview for PS Plus members, showing some of the goodies you'll be getting during the month of May. Full game trials include: Battlefield: Bad Company , Saints Row: The Third, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations , Batman: Arkham City, Rayman Origins and much more. Hit up the break for the list.
]]>A marketing survey has apparently shown what could be concept art of a Rayman Origins sequel, according to Kotaku.
]]>Ubisoft has said Rayman Origins was"very well received" on Vita, and at launch the game was "the best-rated Vita game on Metacritic."
]]>Johnny Cullen talks to Ubisoft, Namco Bandai, Square Enix and more about their experiences with PlayStation Vita.
]]>Fire up your PC to get a taster of the platformer everyone's raving about. Note my not turning that into a pun. Send flowers.
]]>GAME will begin stocking Ubisoft's Vita launch line-up, including Rayman Origins, Lumines and Michael Jackson: The Experience, from tomorrow, VG247 can reveal.
]]>Ubisoft has released a launch trailer for Rayman Origins, which will be released tomorrow as part of Vita's launch line-up. The game will also be made available for download through PSN for £29.99/€34.99. You won't be able to buy it at GAME in the UK, though. Hit up the break to watch the video for yourself.
]]>GAME will not stock Ubisoft PlayStation Vita launch titles tonight, VG247 has learnt.
]]>Delivering the same experience as console owners was one of the main priorties for the Vita version of Rayman Origins, Ubisoft has told VG247.
]]>Ubisoft's announced it's to release amazing platformer Rayman Origins on PC, and the 3DS version has been moved to the later part of March.
]]>The long-awaited 3DS release of Rayman Origins has secured a slot on the US retail calendar: March 30. Europeans are expecting it on March 16. A Vita release is due the week before the console's launch, and PlayStation 3 Wii and Xbox 360 versions are available now. The luciously beautiful platformer had a rough start, launching right in release crunch, but is starting to make a splash at retail.
]]>In a media blast regarding its action RPG Dungeon Hunter: Alliance, Ubisoft has announced it intends to push all its Vita releases out by February 14, a week in advance of the console itself. The decision will make all Ubisoft's launch titles available to those who receive their console a week early as part of a US-only advance sales scheme. Early adopters look forward to Rayman Origins, Lumines, Michael Jackson: The Experience and Asphalt Injection.
]]>FIFA 12's stay at the top of the UK charts continues for a fifth straight week, but Rayman Origins finally gets its due credit and enters the top ten.
]]>Ubisoft has sent over an updated release schedule of titles slated for 2012, and it looks as though double packs for Assassin's Creed, Rainbow Six Vegas, Splinter Cell and Far Cry 2 are on the way in March.
]]>NPD analyst Anita Frazier has told Eurogamer that Rayman Origins sold a little over 50,000 copies during the month of November in the US. While she wouldn't reveal where it landed on the chart, she did tell the site that Sonic Generations hit 26 on the chart, and through she failed to provide uni sales for the title. For context, Super Mario 3D Land sold over 625,000, and while Frazier didn't say where it landed on the full-chart, it wasn't in the top 10 for the month. Rayman Origins was release in the US on November 15.
]]>Rayman Origins boss Michel Ancel has said development took place over a two year period, speaking in a long video about the platformer
]]>Platformers may not be the most fashionable genre, but Michael Ancel's beautifully animated take on Ubisoft's mascot has drawn solid review scores for Rayman Origins.
]]>Ubisoft has hinted that if Rayman: Origins is successful enough, producer Michael Ancel will be greenlit for other projects - like the long-requested sequel to Beyond Good & Evil.
]]>Ubisoft's announced it'll release a demo of Rayman Origins on PSN and Xbox Live Marketplace next week, November 9. The taster will include three maps from the Jungle, Food and Ocean worlds, with an additional custom map enabling you to navigate through the worlds also in for good measure. Players who collect nine Electoons will get a new costume.
]]>You saw ten ways to travel last week. Now it's time for ten ways on how you can up being killed. Video is after the break. Game's out at the end of the month for PS3, 360 and Wii. It's looking very awesome.
]]>The latest Rayman Origins trailer's shown 10 ways the little dude can travel through his 2D platforming rebirth, including running up walls and bouncing. The Ubi wunderkind's sumptuous return only ever looks better: check below and see. It's out on November 25 for PS3, 360 and Wii.
]]>Ubisoft's released a brand new trailer of Rayman Origins, featuring a cameo from creator Michel Ancel. It does look a pretty wee thing. Get it below the break. The 2D platformer's out on November 25 for PS3, 360 and Wii.
]]>Amazon.co.uk's shown off a Europe-only Collector's Edition of Rayman Origins.
]]>The latest Rayman Origins trailer purports to demonstrate how your team of misfits will take down enemies, but let's be honest here - it's how you'll constantly foil each other in co-op.
]]>A new trailer for Ubisoft's upcoming Rayman: Origins has gone live. The video shows Rayman and his friends travelling around the world, doing lots of fun things and evading many weird looking enemies in the process . There's lots of gameplay footage in there, and it even gives you a glimpse of few of the game's bosses. The platformer's releasing on November 15 for PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. Watch the trailer after the break, thanks to Gamespot.
]]>Ubisoft has released screenshots for three of its Vita games, literally on the system, which the firm is showing at TGS this week.
]]>Ubisoft has announced the line-up of games it will be bringing to PAX Prime with it next weekend. It has also revealed an Assassins' Creed panel and pre-order incentives for the fan event as well.
]]>Ubisoft has released gamescom trailers for three of its upcoming titles: Rayman Origins, The Adventures of Tintin, and Raving Rabbids: Alive & Kicking. We always get that Simple Minds song stuck in our heads when we see that Rabbids title. Watch each one below.
]]>Ubisoft has announced its lineup of games which gamescom attendees can play before the official releases by visiting the company’s booths at the convention.
]]>Ubisoft has announced the titles it will be bringing to the Eurogamer Expo. Games on hand will be: Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Driver: San Francisco, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Rayman Origins, World Rally, and Just Dance Kinect. EG Expo takes place September 22 - 25 at Earl's Court and 30,000 bodies are expected to attend the event. Thanks, EG.
]]>Ubisoft's released a minute-long trailer of Rayman Origins from ComicCon, pretty much showing off the awards it won at E3 as well as the "unofficial" awards. Ancel's amazing-looking platformer is pretty much the reason why you haven't seen BG&E2, but going by the E3 showing, that's not as much as a bad thing as you think it is. Get it below.
Origins releases this November for PS3, Wii and 360.
]]>Ubisoft has detailed its Comic-Con line-up, as well as its panel offerings for next week's event.
]]>Rayman Origins is beautiful enough that you'd expect Ubisoft to keep the middleware powering for itself, but it plans to make the tech freely available.
]]>On holiday weekends, those with post quotas to meet spend a lot of time weeping quietly over their empty inboxes, RSS feeds and IM contact lists. To save you time, I've rounded up the barrel-scrapings which result.
]]>Having been due for just this summer, Ubisoft's confirmed that the Splinter Cell HD Collection has been delayed until September.
]]>Michel Ancel has clarified why Rayman Origins made the jump to a retail release, saying it was how "the franchise works."
]]>We may have linked you to some of these lovely shots of Rayman Origins before, but now we have them posted for you below so you don't have to go anywhere else to get them.
]]>And we mean that, too. GameSpot's freed a couple of new Rayman Origins screens from Ubisoft's Screenshot Vault, and they're so bright and vibrant that we now know where all the color so painfully absent in every first-person shooter ever went. The accompanying preview's worth a read as well, as it gives a couple specific examples of how the game's co-op element will function. So yes, go take a look now. Hopefully, by the time you've returned, we'll have devised a plan to own this game right this very second. We're not above selling our souls, if it helps.
Thanks, dutch.
]]>Retail outing of an unannounced Wii version of Rayman Origins has spoiled Ubisoft's plans for a surprise E3 reveal.
]]>Although Ubisoft hasn't provided an official release date for Rayman: Origins, it hasn't stopped Amazon from putting up a placeholder date of November 15 for North America.
]]>Whoever publishes the listings for Gamestop should possibly tighten up security a bit, given that the latest New Release sheet contains not one, but three reveals that we weren't really expecting.
]]>Ubisoft’s Michel Ancel has said in the latest issue of Game Informer that while he has been working on Beyond Good and Evil 2 for "a while" now, he took a bit of a break to work on Rayman Origins.
]]>Ubisoft will release the first episode of Rayman Origins this Christmas for PS3 and 360.
]]>Good news first: Beyond Good & Evil 2 is definitely alive. If Ubisoft corporate's overly indulgent "yes" didn't convince you, perhaps a reassuring pat on the back from series creator Michel Ancel will do the trick.
Now the not-quite-so-good news: Ancel has big, big plans for the game, but he wants to carry them out with a tiny team. Translation: more waiting. A lot more waiting.
]]>Ubisoft's E3 press conference has come to a close, and we've decided to round all the news up for you.
]]>Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot just confirmed that legendary creator of Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil Michael Ancel is returning to the former series with a 2D title called Rayman Origins.
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