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Beyond Good & Evil, Outland, From Dust triple pack this September in Europe
The Beyond Good & Evil HD, From Dust and Outland retail triple pack of downloadable games will be available September 21 in Europe.Eurogamer reports confirmation from Ubisoft that the bundle will be available for Xbox 360, but there's no mention of a PS3 version.The retail compilation has popped up a couple times during the year, with Ubisoft not commenting until now. On that note, we've reached out to Ubisoft US about the game coming stateside, but haven't heard back.
Ubisoft's BG&E, Outland, From Dust triple pack leaks box art
The next triple pack treatment is that much closer to being announced. Amazon UK has leaked some box art for the Ubisoft Xbox Live Hits Collection, which places Beyond Good & Evil HD, From Dust and Outland on one retail disc. It's a bittersweet proposition, since we all remember what happened the last time Ubisoft put Beyond Good & Evil on a disc.If this all seems familiar, it's probably because just about the same thing happened back in January. The emergence of the box art, visible to the left, lends more credence toward this being a real official thing we can buy on this planet with our human money.The new anomaly is that the Amazon UK listing, which prices the triple pack at £17.99, only lists it for Xbox 360 – no PS3 version can be found. Even though we expect the boilerplate response from Ubisoft, we've still asked for more information.
Ubisoft lists Trials Evolution, BG&E HD, I Am Alive, more as free-to-play titles
Ubisoft just ran a short promo reel for its free-to-play program at its E3 press conference, and at the very end, the company included the screen above. You'll notice that there are a few curious entries on there, including Trials Evolution, I Am Alive, and Beyond Good and Evil HD, among a few other popular and well-known console games. Presumably, this means that Ubisoft has released or is working on free-to-play, probably browser-based variants of all of these titles. Ubisoft has previously released From Dust on Google's Chrome browser-based marketplace, and so that's the most likely avenue for the rest of these titles. We'll talk to Ubisoft about this at E3 this week; It'd definitely be great to see Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes as a free-to-play title in a browser near you.
Play.com lists 'Ubisoft Triple Pack,' containing Beyond Good and Evil HD, Outland, From Dust [update]
It looks like more downloadable titles will be getting the packaged retail treatment, this time courtesy of Ubisoft. Similar to the various other retail packs we've seen in the past, the "Ubisoft Triple Pack" will contain three previously download-only titles for PS3 and Xbox 360: Beyond Good and Evil HD, Outland and From Dust, according to a listing on Play.com.Play.com's pre-order price of £14.99 equates to roughly $23, although no listings currently exist for the Triple Pack on any of the usual US retailers' websites. We've contacted Ubisoft for clarification regarding the collection's availability and pricing, but we feel safe in assuming that it'll cost more than $1 and less than $100 million, and that it'll be available in a country somewhere on this specific planet.Update: Ubisoft has responded in a wholly surprising and remarkably unpredictable fashion: "We have nothing to announce at this time."
Beyond Good & Evil HD heavily discounted on Xbox Live today
Third-person photo shooter Beyond Good & Evil HD is the star discount in today's (hnnggghhh) "Cyber Monday" sale on Xbox Live. It's down from 800 MSP ($10) to 240 MSP -- that's $3 for one of last generation's most charming and thoughtful adventures. If you find the lack of inverted camera bothersome, perhaps you can put some of today's savings toward brain inversion surgery. It'll be worth it! Xbox Live is also discounting three other games for today only: An assembly of three klassic fighters in Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection (400 MSP / $5), ol' sale standby Risk Factions (200 MSP / $2.50), and a game that's awesome in alliteration only, Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale (600 MSP / $7.50).
PSN Tuesday: Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta is here
Today's PSN update marks the beginning of the PlayStation Plus-exclusive Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta. However, PlayStation Plus membership was offered as part of the "Welcome Back" package, meaning the "exclusive" beta is not so exclusive. In fact, it's essentially open to everyone using the PS Store (if they've activated those free memberships -- you only have until July 3 to do so), so there will be a lot of people rushing to download the beta. Basically, what we're saying is that something given away after a PSN outage is about to knock the PSN out again, jeopardizing your ability to get Beyond Good and Evil HD. Check out all the DLC for this week after the break. Choose your platform to view the corresponding release list: (Note: Continue past the break to view both release lists.)
Beyond Good and Evil HD coming to PSN next week
If you missed out on Beyond Good and Evil during its original release on PC, PS2, GameCube, and Xbox, and then you missed out on it again when the HD version hit XBLA in March, you should definitely not miss out on it this time. Ubisoft announced today that Beyond Good and Evil HD will finally arrive on PSN next Tuesday, June 28. If you buy the PSN version within the first two weeks, you'll get a pair of free PSN avatars. You'll also get a great action-adventure game! What a deal. Find a trailer (with some extra sound effects added for unnecessary impact) after the break.
Beyond Good & Evil HD arrives on PSN this May
After getting the special House Party promotion treatment on XBLA, Ubisoft is taking a Pey'j from Microsoft's book and working with Sony to promote the forthcoming release of Beyond Good & Evil HD on PSN. In addition to the game itself, all PSN members "who pick up the game within the first two weeks" will snag two free avatars (of Jade or Pey'j, seen above) for their PSN cards. Of course, knowing when those two weeks will be, exactly, could be an issue -- Ubisoft has only given the game a "May" launch window. We'll let you know if we hear something more specific, but for now there's a new trailer embedded after the break.
Ubisoft offering Beyond Good and Evil soundtrack for free
On the off chance that you're too busy cataloging Hillyan wildlife or having deep, intellectual conversations with your bipedal porcine uncle to notice, Beyond Good and Evil (and its recently released HD renovation) has an incredible soundtrack. Also, in case you were too busy using the internet to look at LOLCats or read Sonic the Hedgehog fan fiction to notice, said soundtrack is totally free to download right this very second. We like to think it's worth your bandwidth -- especially if you've got any hovercraft racing, factory-spying or pearl dredging on your schedule in the immediate future.
XBLA in Brief: Beyond Good & Evil HD
Look, we're not saying you're a horrible person if you've never played Beyond Good & Evil before, we're just saying that you'd be a lot less horrible if you had. The HD update is now available on Xbox Live Arcade for just $10. You should buy it. And tell your friends to buy it, because we'd really like to see Beyond Good & Evil 2 sometime in the next decade. [iTunes] Subscribe to XBLA in Brief directly in iTunes. [Zune] Subscribe to the XBLA in Brief directly. [RSS] Add the XBLA in Brief feed to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically. [M4V] Download the M4V directly.
Xbox Live House Party titles (Beyond Good & Evil HD, Torchlight) dated, priced
Just in the nick of time, Microsoft has announced dates and prices for its month-long Xbox Live Arcade House Party promotion. Things kick off on February 16 with Arc System Works' not-Contra side-scroller, Hard Corps: Uprising, priced at 1200 points ($15), followed by PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz on February 23, for 800 points ($10). Things really get moving on March 2, when Beyond Good & Evil HD is released for the eminently reasonable price of 800 points. The last two releases will undoubtedly gather the most attention: the excellent, heretofore computer-bound, dungeon crawler Torchlight will be released on March 9 for 1200 points, while Microsoft's Live-enabled Full House Poker makes its debut on March 16 for a surprisingly low 800 points.
Beyond Good & Evil HD preview: There is power in numbers (Carlson and Peeters, chapter 21)
In November of 2003, a much younger Ubisoft was launching two high-profile (and excellent!) titles: the Montreal-developed reboot of the Prince of Persia series, subtitled "Sands of Time," and the Montpellier-developed Beyond Good & Evil, the supposed first installment in creator Michel Ancel's planned trilogy. By now, you know how this story goes. The Prince of Persia reboot – fueled by Ubisoft's curiously siloed marketing muscle – was a massive success and spawned two immediate sequels, a 2008 reboot, a 2010 feature film and associated tie-in game. The remainder of the Beyond Good & Evil trilogy? Despite a sequel being announced five years later at Ubisoft's Ubidays event in 2008, the company has subsequently ignored, mismanaged, or forgotten that promise. But now, seven years after both games made their way to retail, we're being treated to HD rereleases and, while Prince of Persia: Sands of Time was released on PS3 as a lazy up-rezzed port (even retaining major bugs from its original release!), Beyond Good & Evil appears to be benefitting from a degree of care (and marketing) it was never afforded in 2003. Talk about karma. %Gallery-112902%
Torchlight coming to Xbox Live Arcade with new content for House Party series
Runic Games has announced that the Diablo-esque RPG Torchlight is coming to Xbox Live Arcade for the upcoming House Party series of releases. The game has apparently been remade to use the Xbox controller (with dual sticks for moving and attacking, bumpers for potions, and hotkeys assigned to triggers and buttons), and given a new interface for the console release. There will also be "new quests, armor sets, weapons, and a new pet" to play with as well. Consider us surprised -- it'll be interesting to see how a very PC title (that's found a lot of success on Steam) fits into Microsoft's arcade lineup. The House Party will start on February 16, and will also include a release of the Beyond Good and Evil HD remake, Hard Corps Uprising, PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz Live, and Full House Poker. That's a quality lineup right there! %Gallery-112898%
Beyond Good & Evil is back, clearly coming in HD
An HD remastering of Ubisoft's 2003 favorite Beyond Good & Evil was announced last fall for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. Although Ubisoft could not immediately confirm this trailer's authenticity, it would appear that Jade and co. have indeed had a little work done.
Beyond Good & Evil HD: see the first screens
We got a chance to play a small section from early on in the freshly revealed Beyond Good & Evil HD yesterday evening at Ubisoft Digital Day 2010. Jade and Pey'j definitely looked higher-poly, while the textures were still clearly in the process of being swapped out. The framerate was a little inconsistent at this stage, but just by running at 1080p the game looked remarkable, even seven years after its 2003 debut. Ubisoft couldn't confirm if this remastering should be taken as a sign that Beyond Good & Evil 2 had become a higher priority project at the company. You can, however, bet it will be keeping a close eye on sales of Beyond Good & Evil HD as a gauge of just how quickly it needs to get the sequel out the door.%Gallery-103841%
Beyond Good & Evil HD coming to PSN, XBLA in 2011
Here's more proof that Ubisoft hasn't forgotten the Beyond Good & Evil franchise: The company is in the process of remastering the Michel Ancel-directed adventure classic for release in 2011 on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. According to IGN, Beyond Good & Evil HD will run at 1080p resolution and feature updated character models, higher-resolution textures and a remastered soundtrack, along with Trophies and Achievements. Beyond Good & Evil was first released on Gamecube, Xbox, PS2 and PC in 2003. Like Okami, it is considered by fans to be one of the best Zelda games ... that, you know, isn't actually a Legend of Zelda game.
