It was a previous job posting back in November last year that revealed that a Red Steel sequel was on the way, and another vacancy ad seems to suggest that the expected Red Steel 2 will support online functionality.

A new Ubisoft job post on Gamasutra advertises for an online programmer to “develop the online part of a game engine for a Wii project … located in [Ubisoft’s] Production Studio in Paris, where Red Steel and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter games have been developed”.

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