E3 used to be THE show for the video game industry. An orgy of spectacle, every development team on the planet had to have a working demo in time for the convention or risk being ignored. Then the powers that be decided to make E3 a convention that nobody was allowed to attend and it all fell apart. Whoops.

Since the effective demise of E3 as a landmark show for the industry, more and more companies have realized they can get more mileage out of their marketing money just by holding their own exhibition. Among these publishers is Ubisoft, whose UbiDays convention is currently underway in Paris, and we are happy to oblige them. Here’s a roundup of the press coming out of France.

-Ubisoft has put out a teaser trailer for Beyond Good And Evil 2, the sequel to the game that that breaks the rule of thumb about video games titled after the works of Nietzsche always being awful. Beyond Good And Evil is one of those games that didn’t make much of a dent in the market but is loved nonetheless, which is of course why we at Kwanzoo have trivia for it.

-Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party will use the Wii Fit balance board for a sort of sledding game. Yes, that’s right: Finally, there’s a video game you can play with your ass.

-Ubisoft announced some time ago that they were rebooting the Prince of Persia franchise with a new storyline, something they already did five years ago with the superb Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Apparently the sequels were just that bad that they had to toss everything and start over again. Nevertheless, there’s also a teaser trailer for tne new game up.

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