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Rayman Jungle Run updated with 20 new levels

JC Fletcher — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:30:00 EST

Rayman Jungle Run, like Rayman Legends, is being updated with a bunch of extra levels. However, unlike Legends, the mobile runner's free levels aren't a gesture of reconciliation following a delay, they're there just because.

Also different: with Rayman Jungle Run, there is no delay. The game, and 20 new levels, are there right now as a free update to the iOS and Android versions. Windows 8 is coming soon.

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Rayman Jungle Run makes the jump to Windows 8, RT

Sinan Kubba — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:30:00 EST

Adorable auto-runner Rayman Jungle Run is now available on the Windows Store, downloadable on Windows 8 and RT devices. The Windows version includes the original 40 levels plus the 10 levels thrown in for free late last year. It's priced $2.99.

Ubisoft's classy downloadable evolution of Rayman Origins was a big hit last year, not just with us, but with the App Store itself, which gave it the coveted Game of the Year nod.

Gallery: Rayman Jungle Run (Windows 8)

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Rayman Jungle Run grabs App Store GOTY award

Sinan Kubba — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:00:00 EST

Accomplished auto-run platformer Rayman Jungle Run is the App Store Game of the Year 2012. Ubisoft's iOS evolution of Rayman Origins, which received 10 free bonus levels earlier this month, pipped word game Letterpress to the award.

On the iPad-specific front, Fireproof's 3D puzzler The Room came away with the main prize. The runner-up spot went to IGF finalist and Joystiq favorite Waking Mars.

There are at least a few pairs of raised Joystiq eyebrows at Super Hexagon being omitted, but Terry Cavanagh's twitch game did at least pick up the Runner-Up award from the App Store's UK branch. To celebrate, Cavanagh slashed 66 percent off the game's price, making it available for a limited time at a bargainous $0.99.

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Rayman Jungle Run adds 10 free levels [update: Android still not updated]

Richard Mitchell — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:00:00 EST

The excellent Rayman Jungle Run has been updated with new content on both iOS and Android. The update includes a new world called Potpourri, which features 9 levels. It also includes a new Land of the Livid Dead level. Potpourri features new mechanics, notably interactive platforms and the ability to slide on water. The update is free to all Jungle Run owners.

Also available today is a bit of new premium DLC. For $0.99 players can snag a playable Globox and two new skins for Rayman.

Update: Though the update is supposed to be available on all platforms, it appears that the Android version of Rayman Jungle Run has yet to be updated. We've contacted Ubisoft to discover when it should arrive.

Gallery: Rayman Jungle Run (December 2012 Update)

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Rayman Jungle Run updated for iPhone 5

Jessica Conditt — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:30:00 EST

Rayman Jungle Run on iOS was bumped up to version 1.0.3 today. The update optimizes the game for retina display on iPhone 5, adds a menu option that allows players to gift Rayman Jungle Run to a friend (you still have to pay the $3, mind you), and fixes minor glitches in iCloud and elsewhere.

Rayman Jungle Run is available for Android and iOS. We think it's "evil," but in a good way.

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Portabliss: Rayman Jungle Run (iOS / Android)

Ludwig Kietzmann — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:30:00 EST

This is Portabliss, a column about downloadable games that can be played on the go.

I think I'm starting to understand a paradox embraced by the level designers of Rayman Jungle Run. To do good, and to earn praise from their players, they must do evil. They must string together chasms, ropes, hills and hazards in a way that rewards concentration and casts failure into a bottomless pit. It's a thankless job that thrives on devious impulses, and I am grateful for it.

Rayman Jungle Run is a mean, clever purification of Ubisoft's console game, Rayman Origins. The immediate reward of playing it can be seen in the gorgeous 2D artwork, which is vivid proof of the UbiArt engine running well on mobile platforms. There's more personality crammed into Rayman's spirited run than you'll find in the entirety of some other games - and he doesn't even have a leg to stand on.

Gallery: Rayman Jungle Run

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Rayman Jungle Run delayed to next week on Android

Jessica Conditt — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:00:00 EST

Rayman Jungle Run will be out on Google Play September 27 at 10AM CET (4AM EDT), Ubisoft tweeted today. In a Facebook update, Ubisoft says it wants Rayman Jungle Run to, well, run on all Android devices:

"We understand that you can't wait to play the game but we were not 100 percent sure that the experience would be perfect on all Android devices. That's why we have taken the decision to take one more week to fully optimize the game for all Android devices, even the less common ones."

Rayman Jungle Run launched on iOS yesterday, though it and the Android version were both scheduled to launch today. The iOS version is $3 on the App Store.

Rayman Jungle Run is an auto-running platformer built for touchscreen devices, tapping to jump and holding to hover. Think Canabalt mechanics with Rayman art. Then say, "Oh, yeah."

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PSA: Rayman Jungle Run races early onto iOS, reaches Android tomorrow

Sinan Kubba — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:00:00 EST

Rayman Jungle Run, originally scheduled to release tomorrow, is now available on iOS for $2.99. Ubisoft confirmed the early release this morning, noting the Android version is still due out tomorrow.

Rayman Jungle Run, announced last month, unabashedly takes the perpetual motion platforming made popular by Canabalt and coats it with a Rayman Origins sheen. If that tickles $3 worth of your fancy, you can purchase and download it on the App Store now. Those already wrapped up in sleeping bags outside their local Apple stores may be warmed by the knowledge of a "full iPhone 5 optimization" update in the pipeline.

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Rayman Jungle Run 'balts to iOS and Android as auto-run platformer

Ludwig Kietzmann — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 04:45:00 EST

Take a page from Adam Atomic's auto-run platformer, Canabalt, and embellish it with the vivid artwork of Rayman Origins. Now you've got Rayman Jungle Run, a challenging iOS and Android outing for Ubisoft's legendary and largely legless rascal.

The game runs on the UbiArt framework (with Retina Display support), but doesn't simply recycle content from Rayman's most recent game. The controls are stripped down for touchscreens - a tap to jump and a longer touch to hover - while the new levels narrow your focus to immediate dangers in your path. Much like the toughest levels in Rayman Origins, the paths here feel strictly orchestrated, breathless and just barely comprehensible within the precious time you have to leap over gaps and dash through loops.

Rayman Jungle Run brings that reactive style of platforming, along with the franchise's visual and musical charms, to mobile platforms on September 20.

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