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Resident Evil: Afterlife Director Is Contemplating Other Game-Inspired Movie Projects

Considering the huge hit the Prince of Persia movie is expected to be, it's no wonder more and more producers are exploring other game-related movie possibilities. Rise of the Lich King, the World of Warcraft movie is another one that is expected to perform great, but, until it's done, it looks like Residen...

16 November 2009
08:42 GMT

The Prince of Persia Movie Is Expected to Generate Over $2.7 billion

The first trailer for the Prince of Persia movie was released not so long ago, and it seems like it made an impression. With the estimated budget of $150 million and the success of the last collaboration between Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney that gave birth to the Pirates of the Caribbean blockbuster, the Prince of Pe...

13 November 2009
04:04 GMT

The Prince of Persia Movie Trailer is Out on the Web

The Prince of Persia movie trailer has become available to the public and it now seats swinging from some column on the YouTube website. The trailer was previously seen at some press events last week, but, now, the just-under-two-and-a-half-minute trailer can be enjoyed by everyone with access to the World Wide Web.P...

3 November 2009
16:31 GMT

A New Prince of Persia Is in the Making

The first Prince of Persia came out on the Apple II way back in 1989 and was a huge success that made use of realistic character movement and an enticing gameplay. Unlike many platformers of the time it was also one of the very few, if not the only one, that didn't focus on ranged combat and projectile weapons. ...

8 October 2009
03:03 GMT

Prince of Persia Movie Gets Its First Two Posters

Hollywood has been a big influence on the gaming industry for quite some time now, but only in recent years has this trend become more and more apparent. This is largely due to the big number of game-based movies that have been popping up lately, all of which attaining a fair amount of success, even though some of th...

21 July 2009
13:11 GMT

Ubisoft Unveils Good Financial Results

Ubisoft has officially presented its financial results for the fourth quarter of the 2008 financial year and for the full year and they look pretty good, despite a drop of about 5 % in the final months of the year. Year over year the sales increased by a whooping 14%, with the overall value reaching 1.5 billion dolla...

30 April 2009
14:11 GMT

Bethesda Is Getting Wet

Wet finally has a home. And, no, that's not a joke. Before it was disbanded as part of the merger between Activision and Blizzard, Sierra was set to be the publisher of a videogame called Wet, which is being created by a studio based in Montreal, Canada named A2M, staffed by former employees of Ubisoft Montreal....

27 April 2009
04:20 GMT

Sony's Attach Rate for Blockbusters Is Better than Microsoft's

Sony is pushing hard to show gamers that the gap in performance between the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 is not that great. And the latest argument pushed by the Japanese company is that the attach rate for major titles is bigger for the PS3, which means that those who get the console are more eager to get and play...

15 April 2009
13:01 GMT

Borderlands Embraces Distinctive Art Style

We've recently heard from Gearbox that Borderlands, the bleak-looking shooter that had entered “stealth mode” a few months back, was indeed still set to arrive in 2009, with more details related to gameplay being unveiled at this year's E3 trade show.Now, a preview seen in the PC Gamer magazine ...

10 April 2009
05:02 GMT

Prince of Persia Producer Talks About the Elika Mechanic

The new Prince of Persia title released by Ubisoft last winter was meant to be considered as a full reboot of the historical franchise set in the Middle East. It introduced a brand new Prince, and a fresh gameplay mechanic that would cause quite a lot of debates on the Internet.The mechanic was in the form of Elika, ...

26 March 2009
12:11 GMT

Prince of Persia, Shaun White Snowboarding Arrive on Mac

Ubisoft has released Mac versions of Prince of Persia and Shaun White Snowboarding thanks to its partnership with TransGaming, a company specializing in porting Windows games on Mac. Both titles require Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later to run.Last month, Ubisoft announced signing an agreement with TransGaming Inc. to distrib...

25 March 2009
11:38 GMT

Prince of Persia Now Available for N-Gage Nokia Devices

We've recently learned something that will make a lot of Nokia users rejoice, namely the fact that Prince of Persia, the action adventure game developed by the guys from Gameloft, is now available on the N-Gage platform. Those who own a compatible mobile phone will be able to take a look at the game by going to ...

11 March 2009
02:54 GMT

The Epilogue for Prince of Persia Is Delayed

Ubisoft is saying that it has planned to delay the Epilogue DLC for Prince of Persia. Initially, the new content was set to arrive on February 26, but players will now have to wait until March 5 to get their hands on it.The new Prince of Persia title played quite a trick on gamers with its ending. Basically, one can ...

26 February 2009
06:54 GMT

Mac Users Prepare for Prince of Persia, Shaun White Snowboarding

Two of this year's highest rated video games are heading to the Mac, Ubisoft confirmed in a report yesterday. Specifically, Prince of Persia (the revamped version) and Shaun White Snowboarding will soon become available for Mac users via digital download and at retail.The announcement follows Ubisoft signing an ...

20 February 2009
06:50 GMT

Get Ready for a Prince of Persia LEGO

LEGO toys are starting to get more and more connected with the gaming industry in the recent years. After having seen games based on famous franchises, like LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Indiana Jones, even LEGO Batman, it now seems that the deal is going both ways, as we will see a LEGO toy line based on the famous Prince of...

17 February 2009
03:14 GMT

No Prince of Persia DLC for the PC

In the gaming industry, some franchises have gained the status of cult ones, having managed to entertain users for a very long time and really bring new elements to other titles in their respective genres. One such series is Prince of Persia, which has been shaping third-person platformers ever since 1989, when the f...

3 February 2009
16:51 GMT

A Gamer's Week: 25-31 January 2009

Well, another week has passed and with it quite a lot of interesting things in the gaming industry. While this week wasn't as filled with companies being impacted by the recession as usual, we have heard a lot of interesting things about games that will appear this year. While some of them are good, as they have...

31 January 2009
06:31 GMT

Prince of Persia DLC Revealed and Dated

The Prince of Persia franchise is probably one of the most popular and long-lasting series of video games out there. The titles have entertained players from the first PCs to the modern consoles of today, unveiling new and intricate stories for them to unravel and in which to really identify with the reactions of the...

29 January 2009
04:22 GMT

Hollywood Producer Reveals Details on Prince of Persia Movie

It seems that Hollywood is developing a pretty big relationship with the gaming industry as it is announcing new video game-based movies left and right, and has just released a few, the latest being the Max Payne one, where Mark Wahlberg played the troubled detective who was a favorite with gamers across the world. ...

27 January 2009
13:01 GMT

A Lot of DLC Will Appear for Prince of Persia

Among gamers, only a few franchises have really gained the status of icons and are eagerly anticipated when a new iteration appears. One such series is Prince of Persia, which, ever since it first appeared for the PC in 1989, has amazed gamers and industry analysts alike. Its acrobatic gameplay and intriguing stories...

27 January 2009
04:40 GMT

Ubisoft Announces Good Financial Results

Ubisoft has reported strong sales numbers for the third fiscal quarter of 2008, which ended on December 31, 2008. The French publisher revealed having reached sales of 508 million Euros, which is quite a bit better than it expected when it announced its estimations for this quarter. Compared to the same period of 200...

23 January 2009
12:11 GMT

Square Enix Partners with Ubisoft

The gaming industry is slowly but surely becoming more and more globalized, as companies are starting to manifest their influence and extend their networks across the whole world. Such is the case with Japanese game publisher Square Enix, most famous for the hugely successful Final Fantasy RPG (Role Playing Game) fra...

14 January 2009
02:30 GMT

Prince of Persia Producer Talks About Similarities with Shadow of the Colossus

Prince of Persia is one of the most popular franchises of platform adventure games out there, entertaining players ever since the first game appeared in 1989. Since then, with the help of the French game developer and publisher Ubisoft, we've seen various reincarnations of the Middle Eastern Prince in quite a lo...

8 January 2009
15:01 GMT

The 'Magic' of Prince of Persia Appeals to Every Gamer

The Prince of Persia franchise is probably one of the most popular series of adventure games out there, entertaining gamers since 1989, when the first one was launched. From then on, with the help of French publisher Ubisoft, the franchise received quite a lot of new titles and has made the Prince a memorable charact...

6 January 2009
15:01 GMT

Prince of Persia's Innovations Haven't Been Noticed, Says Developer

The Prince of Persia franchise is one of the oldest and most popular platforming series of games out there, with its roots tracing back to 1989, when we followed the adventures of the first Prince. Now, in 2008, the franchise, which was bought by Ubisoft, has seen its latest installment, a completely fresh and new Pr...

30 December 2008
13:01 GMT

One Hour With: Prince of Persia

Ubisoft has certainly been a very busy company this holiday season, as it has launched quite a lot of titles, aimed at a variety of audiences. With the likes of Far Cry 2 for shooter fans or Tom Clancy's EndWar for people who like strategy games, the players who enjoyed some classic action adventure with platfor...

12 December 2008
03:30 GMT

Prince of Persia Is Very Important to Ubisoft

The recently released new Prince of Persia, which marks the series’ leaving the familiar Sands of Time setting, could be one of the most important videogames in the history of Ubisoft.Alain Martinez, who is the Chief Financial Officer of Ubisoft, stated, at the UBS Annual Global Media Conference, that Prince of...

11 December 2008
04:22 GMT

Prince of Persia Will Offer New Skins and Extra Goodies

Ubisoft is a pretty busy company these days, as it is launching quite a few new and very much expected games this holiday season. From the innovative voice-controlled RTS (Real Time Strategy) game Tom Clancy's EndWar to the expansion to one of the most beautiful shooters, Far Cry 2, there are plenty of titles th...

21 November 2008
03:19 GMT

Significant Content Coming for Prince of Persia

Ubisoft has not even launched the remade, re-imagined Prince of Persia and it's already talking about the downloadable content which the title is due to receive when it is out. Some of the company’s statements point to the fact that it might be thinking of bringing an entire prequel sequence to players dig...

19 November 2008
20:41 GMT

System Specifications for Prince of Persia Revealed

Ubisoft has announced the minimum hardware requirements that PC players will have to meet if they are planning to play the all new, reinvented Prince of Persia. The developers have only released a minimum set of specifications as they say that “there are no recommended specs as basically anything you have over ...

12 November 2008
20:11 GMT

Ubisoft Unveils Financial Results

Ubisoft reports having registered better than expected results in the second quarter of 2008, mainly as Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway did well and because it owns the distribution rights of Soulcalibur IV in Europe.Sales increased more than 31% over the last year, going up to 344 million Euros when the whole ...

27 October 2008
01:02 GMT

Ubisoft Prepares Massive Ads Campaign

Ubisoft is ready to launch a very strong holiday line up with games such as Far Cry 2, Prince of Persia, Shawn White Snowboarding and EndWar will be out from now till Christmas. In order to gain a competitive advantage over the other big publishers, Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard, the France-b...

13 October 2008
12:01 GMT

Prince of Persia Has a Release Date

Ubisoft says the eternal Prince that has already starred in a game trilogy for the company is ready to swing into action again in early December in the new re-imagined Prince of Persia. The  game is set to arrive in North American on December 2 and in Europe, the Middle East and Africa on December 4. The United ...

22 September 2008
12:31 GMT

Apple II-Original Karateka Game Getting Followup

Jordan Mechner, best known for designing the original Prince of Persia game, has revealed in an interview that a followup to his first video game for the Apple II computer, Karateka, is under development."There actually is a plan to bring back Karateka," the renowned video game designer told gaming site Gamasutra. "I...

29 July 2008
05:52 GMT

Ubisoft Reports Growth in Sales

Ubisoft, the France based publisher, has announced that it has exceeded expectations regarding first quarter profits. Sales revenue was up more than 25% to reach 263.7 million dollars, with the biggest overall performer being the casual game division of the publisher, which brought in more than half the revenue.The b...

25 July 2008
02:40 GMT

Prince of Persia Not Getting a Demo

It seems that the upcoming iteration of Prince of Persia will not be getting a demo. The developers of the game are saying that the production schedule is tight enough as it is, and that they do not have the time and the resources required to put together a demo of the game that would do it justice.The new Prince of ...

15 July 2008
15:56 GMT

Prince of Persia Could Be Delayed to Next Year

Many people are eagerly anticipating Ubisoft's latest game in the Prince of Persia franchise, the title that is supposed to revive the series and offer the developers a chance to start it over again and bring us ten more POP games. However, it is quite possible for the entire plan to get a little delay if the de...

14 July 2008
13:06 GMT

New Prince of Persia Announced for the Nintendo DS

Ubisoft is sending word that its Prince of Persia franchise is receiving a new member, in the form of a Nintendo DS exclusive game, called Prince of Persia: The Fallen King. Development duties for the title will be handled by the Casablanca studio of Ubisoft, which has recently received a significant upgrade and star...

27 June 2008
02:20 GMT

Ubisoft Says We'll Have to Wait for the Next Assassin's Creed

The 2007 success of French based publisher Ubisoft, reflected in a net income rise of more than 100 million dollars, was largely based on the sales of Assassin's Creed, the free running and sneaking focused game starring Altair. The title has already pushed more than 6 million copies to gamers all over the worl...

26 June 2008
10:02 GMT

Vote for the New Prince of Persia Achievement

With Prince of Persia getting reinvented and hype quickly building up, Ubisoft is trying to give the fans a sense of involvement in the development of the title by letting them vote on which Achievement makes it into the Xbox 360 version of the game.There are three possible choices. The first one is titled "Longest g...

20 June 2008
18:06 GMT

First Prince of Persia Trailer, Details Here

The game that, unlike what happens with most of the sequels, gets better and better with each new iteration released - Prince of Persia - has just received the first official trailer and a host of game features to get us all excited! And they did manage to do that - we are still put under the spell of the teaser trai...

29 May 2008
04:34 GMT

Jake Gyllenhaal Will Be the Prince of Persia

Movie crossovers have been all the rage in Hollywood for a few years now. Comic books are being turned into high budget movies, like Spiderman and Iron Man, but a lot of games too are targeted for the movie treatment. Unfortunately, not many of the movies based on games have been really good so far. Just think of the...

22 May 2008
16:06 GMT

New Prince of Persia Details

After the initial news that Ubisoft was making a new Prince of Persia game, a few more details on the game itself have become available, coming from Jean-Christophe Guyot, who is the creative director on this new Prince project.While talking to the French gaming magazine Joypad, he declared that "The previous trilogy...

5 May 2008
20:06 GMT

New Prince of Persia Confirmed

Ubisoft has made it official. A new Prince of Persia game is being developed for the Xbox 360 gaming console from Microsoft, for the PlayStation 3, the good old PC and the Nintendo DS handheld. The game is in development at the Montreal studio that has already created free runner Assassin's Creed and is set to f...

29 April 2008
02:48 GMT

New Prince of Persia in Development?

There are two clues discovered so far that could mean that a new Prince of Persia game is being readied by Eidos. Clue number one: series creator Jordan Mechner has recently trademarked the name "Prodigy". To add fuel to the fire, the patent sought by Mechner can only be applied to "game software and electronic game ...

24 April 2008
05:44 GMT

Prince of Persia 1 and 2 Cheats (PC)

Prince of Persia 1 is set in Ancient Persia. As a child, Jordan Mechner had enjoyed the tales from the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, and the settings for this game are changed to Persia. The Prince is an orphan, living of the streets of Persia. One day, he scales the palace walls to catch a glimpse of the ...

4 February 2008
10:52 GMT

Jerry Bruckheimer About Prince of Persia Movie

Jerry Bruckheimer's name is associated with lots of successful titles, like Pirates of the Caribbean or Bad Boys. Now it seems that we can associate his name with Prince of Persia, too - the next big thing he's going to bring to the screen.According to Collider.com, the Prince of Persia filming could start ...

4 December 2007
05:12 GMT

Prince Of Persia Revelations Tips, Tricks and Glitches (PSP)

Enter the dark underworld of Prince of Persia PSP. Hunted by the Dahaka, an immortal incarnation of Fate seeking divine retribution, the Prince embarks upon a path of carnage and mystery to defy his preordained death. His journey leads to the infernal core of a cursed island stronghold harboring mankind's greate...

3 October 2007
09:41 GMT

Far Cry Is FREE - Download Now!

It doesn't really matter what games turn free over night - as soon as a game is free, people start downloading it just for the sake of it. However, when games like Far Cry are involved, things are a little different. The hype has reached the critical limit on the Internet, as Ubisoft's Far Cry, Prince of Pe...

3 September 2007
10:45 GMT

Prince of Persia Classic for XBLA - No Spoilers, It's all the Same

Just a little while ago we talked about the original Prince of Persia (developed by Jordan Mechner), coming to Xbox Live Arcade, under the name of Prince of Persia Classic, revamped and all tweaked up. We're here today to sum it all up for you to make a better picture of what's going to be soon available on...

28 May 2007
10:49 GMT


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