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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

Prince of Persia: Rival Swords Cheat Codes and Secrets (Wii)

Rival Swords follows the second ending of Warrior Within, in which the Prince kills the Dahaka and successfully alters Kaileena's (The Empress of Time) fate. While on a ship en route to his home city of Babylon, the Prince tosses his magical medallion overboard, as he believes he no longer needs it. He has promi...

16 April 2007
06:50 GMT


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