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Friday9th Aug 2024
News Pour One Out for PS4 Exclusive WiLD, No Longer in Active Development
WiLD
In a development that shouldn't come as a surprise but still stings on some level, remember that promising PS4-exclusive WiLD, shown off at Gamescom (a decade ago), and Michel Ancel was involved? Yeah, its no longer in active development. Dredging through the Push Square archives, it seems like it was sort of happening in
Friday20th Aug 2021
News Promising PS4 Exclusive WiLD Has Allegedly Been Canned
Hardly WiLD news
Let’s not beat around the bush: WiLD looked incredible. The ambitious open worlder helmed by Michel Ancel and his Wild Sheep Studio was announced as a PlayStation 4 exclusive eons ago, but with the Rayman maker retiring from games and development seemingly stalling for an entire generation, word is that it no longer exists...
Friday12th Feb 2021
News WiLD Developer Is Busy Hiring New Talent
Never give up
Ah, WiLD. We still remember when the PS4 exclusive title was first announced at... Er... Gamescom 2014?! Yep, it really was that long ago. Over six years later and we still haven't seen more than a few minutes of gameplay, even after the project managed to make a brief return in 2017. Since then, we've only heard the
Friday18th Sep 2020
News Rayman Creator Michel Ancel Retires from Games, PS4 Exclusive WiLD Going Super Well
Beyond Good & Evil 2 also still in development
Industry icon Michel Ancel has officially retired from game development after more than 30 years in the industry. The Rayman creator confirmed the news on Instagram, explaining that he’ll be focusing full-time on his other passion: wild life. “My new project takes place in the real world and...
Monday20th Apr 2020
News WiLD Hopes Revived As Concept Art of Long Lost PS4 Exclusive Is Rediscovered
Going ape for info
Update: We're no closer to knowing what is happening with WiLD, as what was originally believed to be new concept art has actually been confirmed as old. The images below all first appeared on Facebook a couple of years ago, so unfortunately can't be used as evidence of the project's progress. We'll check in with Sony to see if it...
Wednesday29th May 2019
News Long Anticipated PS4 Exclusive WiLD Re-Emerges in New Art
Where have you been, wild thing?
What is going on with Sony at the moment? The company’s not going to be at E3 2019, but a new Death Stranding trailer is imminent while The Last of Us: Part II rumours remain rife. And now, fresh artwork of Michel Ancel’s long anticipated PlayStation 4 exclusive WiLD has been uploaded to
Monday18th Mar 2019
News Sony Files Trademark for Long Lost PS4 Exclusive WiLD
Returning from the wilderness?
PlayStation 4 exclusive WiLD was originally announced all the way back in 2014. Since then, we've seen little of Michael Ancel's project, with it briefly resurfacing in 2015, and showing up again in 2017. When it was revealed that Ancel was working on
Saturday28th Jan 2017
News Promising PS4 Exclusive WiLD Wanders Out of the Wilderness
Wild thing
Do you remember Michel Ancel's mad PlayStation 4 exclusive WiLD? The game was announced eons ago, and its first ever gameplay demonstration was mesmerising: it involved snake ladies and tribesmen who could transform into freakin' birds. It was basically the best thing ever, but all of the Beyond Good & Evil rumours have made us worry...
Tuesday27th Oct 2015
Paris Games Week 2015 PS4's WiLD Has Changed, But Still Shows Huge Promise
It's only natural
Remember WiLD? You lot voted it your Game of the Show way back in 2014 following Sony's Gamescom press conference, but it's been missing in action ever since. Thankfully, the interesting looking title made a return during Sony's Paris Games Week presser with a full gameplay demo - and it still shows some real promise. That said,...
Tuesday12th Aug 2014
Gamescom 2014 PS4 Exclusive WiLD Looks Wacky, Wonderful, and, Erm, Wild
Nature calls
It was recently revealed that Rayman creator Michel Ancel had opened brand new studio Wild Sheep, and at Sony's Gamescom conference today, we were finally shown what the fledgling team has been up to. Titled WiLD, the developer's first effort is a broad and ambitious PlayStation 4 exclusive that sees you controlling everything from a...
