Rayman Legends' stand-alone online Challenge Mode, promised as compensation for the game's delayed Wii U release, is launching today on the Wii U eShop as a free app. Ubisoft has put out a trailer showing off what it looks like.

When Rayman Legends' Wii U release was delayed by months so 360 and PS3 editions could be put together, owners of Nintendo's console were pissed.

Those of us who got Wii U systems last November were supposed to reach an oasis today in our crawl through the machine's oh-so-typical year-one software desert. We were supposed to be playing the sidescroller Rayman: Legends right now.

Acknowledging the profound disappointment at the delay of Rayman Legends release on the Wii U—a holdup that seems to have no other reason than to wait for the Xbox 360 and PS3 editions to launch this fall—Ubisoft Montréal has decided to release the game's Online Challenges mode early, for free, to all Wii U users. The…

Disappointment over a six-month delay of a video game's release may be a first-world problem. But there's a good case Ubisoft is holding Rayman Legends back from Wii U while it gets the newly announced PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions ready for a September release.

There's good news and bad news, Rayman fans. First, the bad news: Rayman Legends—the follow-up to the fun, much-praised Rayman Origins—has been delayed until this September, about six months after its original February 26th release date. The good news is that PS3 and Xbox 360 owners will also be getting their own…

Surreal stages, events, or gameplay that somehow just don't fit have always been present, and even expected. Their crazy graphics, weird aesthetics and ideas make sure that we have absolutely no idea what's going on. But they have their charm, they are funny, or they're simply part of the experience—and so we love…

With a "launch window" that appears to be of the floor-to-ceiling variety, there have been questions about when some Wii U titles would actually see the light of day. For one of the most anticipated titles, the wait for knowing how long you have to wait is over: Ubisoft's gorgeous platformer Rayman Legends will be…

I can't get enough Rayman these days, so today's free update to Ubisoft's Rayman Jungle Run on iOS and Android is greeted with open disembodied hands.

Rayman Origins surprised a lot of folks last year with how charming and sharp its presentation and gameplay was. The product of Michel Ancel's Ubi Montpelier studio felt like a playable animated cartoon, mostly because a very cool game engine let the dev team easily and quickly pull drawings into a game design.…