The latest instalment to the Prince of Persia series, which hopes to recapture past glory, will be shipping a week later now reveals Ubisoft. May 21st is the new release date for The Forgotten Sands, which is not a movie-tie. The PC version is still scratched in for a later June date.
The first ever football sport title from Ubisoft, Pure Football, will be out this May 28th. It favours 'down the park' matches over the stadiums. Stars battle five-aside with rules made up along the way, on themed pitches. Prince of Persia for PC arrives two weeks after consoles.
Super producer Jerry Bruckheimer has said that the Prince of Persia movie "can't count on" gamers to fill those cinema seats, you must broaden. People playing the game "might not be" by the time of the movie. Make a film that's entertaining with deep characters and then "everybody comes."
Figures crunched from the latest NPD report has some of 2010's hot properties well below sales expectations for their launch months at retail. Remedy's Alan Wake didn't make 200k copies, and neither did Bizarre's racer Blur or Ubi's latest of Prince of Persia. Some other notable flops...
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Online retailer Zavvi has listed a 'Splinter Cell Trilogy: HD Collection' and a 'Prince Of Persia Trilogy: HD Collection' from Ubisoft for the PlayStation 3. The Splinter Cell bundle is November 26th bound, while Prince of Persia's lot get a March 11th 2011 date. Sources say Ubi after their own "collections sku".
It's now official as Ubisoft announces the Prince of Persia Trilogy as a PlayStation 3 exclusive, and that it will only grace European retailers. It includes PS2 POP classics The Sands of Time, Warrior Within and The Two Thrones on a single Blu-ray. All feature 720p visuals and 3D support.
The Prince of Persia Trilogy HD is exclusively releasing in Europe on Blu-ray disc for the PlayStation 3, but the individual titles will be on PSN also. The Sands of Time, Two Thrones, and Warrior Within will be downloadable via the PlayStation Store. HD remakes of Splinter Cell in the works.
Sony's PlayStation Store update this week has Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time HD, Dreamcast's Crazy Taxi and Red Faction: Guerrilla. The free and exclusive Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood DLC is also up, with AC2's extras temporarily reduced. PSN will be down for maintenance soon.
Ubisoft has announced two new bundles for PlayStation Network which will include the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Classic Trilogy HD and the Prince of Persia Classic Trilogy HD, both of which will each come on a single Blu-Ray disc and be rendered in HD.
It's Spring Fever 2011 time for the PlayStation Store as the US PSN gets its weekly update. Crysis 2 multiplayer demo anyone? What about Mortal Kombat? Parasite Eve joins PSone Classics, Marvel vs. Capcom 3 gets Jill and Shuma Gorath DLC, and Ubisoft's Prince of Persia is now a full downloadable title.
Jordan Mechner created Prince of Persia that went on to spawn multiple titles and even a Jerry Bruckheimer film. The veteran game designer has found a piece of gaming history. A fan letter from one 17-year-old John Romero dated March 25th, 1985. He praises 21-year-old Mechner for his programming skills on Karateka. Scrolling background wow'ed him.
An alleged Prince of Persia screenshot has arrived on the official Ubisoft forum, and takes plenty of inspiration from Assassin's Creed.
Sony has announced that the PS3 Essentials are now available for digital distribution on PlayStation Network.
Ubisoft has suggested the Prince of Persia brand is being shut away until the publisher can figure out what to do with it.
Ubisoft has teased a little something in the Prince of Persia universe, as they posted a message saying they're "get ready for some news" to drop this week about the franchise. The nuclear-powered rumour-mill fired up. However all that excitement is likely to fizzle out as it's apparently just a mobile game. There's no big triple-A announcement due any time soon it would seem. If only we could manipulate time...
According to a report, Ubisoft is developing a 2D-based Prince of Persia using the same engine as the recent Rayman games. Ubisoft's RPG Child of Light also uses the UbiArt Framework engine. They'll be using the "same techniques of animation" with the Prince's body having parts independently animated, much like Rayman. This is to give him 'real diversity' in postures and movement.
Engineer Drew James from Ubisoft Reflections posted a picture with Prince of Persia's various incarnations through the gaming ages, with the fifth slot reserved with a teasing question mark. He asked what was next for the series, but his twitter feed has since disappeared. Other twitter accounts were copied in, including Jade Raymond. Ubisoft is leaking serious sand.
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