Gamers the world over sighed with relief when it was revealed that Ubisoft was developing a sequel to the much loved Beyond Good & Evil. The company has been incredibly quiet about the game ever since, however. Now Ubi's North American CEO Laurent Detoc has expressed doubt over whether the game will even come out at all.

"Yes, that worked out (referring to the success of Assassin's Creed), but it doesn't work out every time, and sometimes you come back to an IP that didn't work because you still think it could have—like Beyond Good and Evil, which was leaked, so now people know we're working on a new one," Detoc told Industry Gamers. "Whether or not it comes out remains to be seen anyway, but we didn't want to abandon that IP because it has a cache and authenticity about it. There's something very pure about that game and it's too bad that we were not able to build it as an IP at the time. "

And if that wasn't enough to break the hearts of BG&E fans out there, he also added: "I didn't say there's definitely going to be another game. I said something had leaked, which means we've been working on some Beyond Good and Evil stuff, but whether there's going to be another game or not, that's something for the future."

Now, it's entirely possible that Detoc is simply covering his bases in the off chance that BG&E2 isn't released. But combined with noticeable lack of new information that Ubisoft has revealed about the game, his comments are more than a little distressing.