- Have you played… Prince Of Persia (2008)? - 8 December 2020
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. It’s genuinely strange to me that more people don’t talk about the 2008 Prince Of Persia . Okay, it’s probably the art style, which deviates massively from the other games in the series. It’s also a sort of reboot with less of a focus on time-manipulation and combat, choosing instead to focus on the dynamic between the two main characters. My point is, I can see why people wouldn’t have given it a fair shake. Truth is though, it’s really damn good, and secretly the best in the series. (more…)
- Prince of Persia announcement teased by Ubisoft engineer - 23 April 2014
Another Prince of Persia game may be on the way. A Ubisoft engineer teased an image pointing to an impending announcement for the next iteration of the long-dormant franchise. But given the speed with which the image (and his entire account) disappeared, it seems likely he jumped the gun.
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- The Romantic Moments In Video Games That Remind You Of Valentine's Day - 14 February 2013
With Valentine's Day putting us all in a romantic mood it was our duty to gather some of the defining aaaawww moments video games offer. A great deal of game endings below so watch out for heavy spoilers ! The Ending Of The First Prince Of Persia source: Prince Of Persia Final Level Nate And Elena In Uncharted 3 source: MiyuDevaughn's LP Holding Hands In ICO source: The Bridge Scene In ICO The Ballroom Dance And Fireworks Scene in Final Fantasy VIII source: MasterLL's LP Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts Ending source: Thetwodud's LP Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link's Ending source: LaiSteve66's LP Yuna And Tidus' First Kiss In Final Fantasy X source: Final Fantasy Union Aladdin's Ending source: ka6Scope's LP Katherine's True Ending In Catherine source: theRadBrad's LP The Ending Of The Secret Of Monkey Island source: Monkey Island Wiki The Ending Of Revenge Of Shinobi source: jay4gamers1's LP Mari…
- Weirdly, This is Probably A Behind-The-Scenes Video Of A Planned Prince Of Persia Reboot - 29 January 2013
Bizarrely, within the same 24-hour period that Ubisoft says the Prince of Persia series is "paused", footage has emerged of a project that sure seems like a Prince of Persia reboot. You've seen it before , back in August, but this production video says that the project's name is Osiris , adding to suspicions the game—whatever it is—is set in Egypt. While most of the clip involves background footage showing actors used for motion-capture data, there are snippets of art and other scenes shown, especially towards the end. The video was posted by Mark Kilian, and it was uploaded five months ago. It says it was commissioned by Ubisoft Montreal, the same mega-studio behind the Assassin's Creed series (and Far Cry 3 ). You can watch it here . UPDATE - Seems the project is " no longer moving forward ". Bummer. Osiris
- Prince of Persia is 'paused' for now, needs 'time to breathe' - 29 January 2013
Hey, remember Prince of Persia? So does Ubisoft. But that doesn't mean you can expect a new game in that franchise any time soon. Ubisoft Montreal is the team responsible for both the 2008 reboot and the 2010 movie tie-in The Forgotten Sands . However, CEO Yannis Mallat confirmed that the series is currently taking a break. "I think it is fair to say that, right now, Prince of Persia is being paused." He added that "we said the same thing for some other brands that suddenly popped up because a team is willing to do it." Let's not forget the 26 year gap between Zombi and ZombiU , folks.
- The Status Of Microsoft and Sony’s Next Consoles. Plus: A Whole Bunch Of This Year's Gaming Secrets. - 26 December 2012
No topic appeared in the rumor mill this year as much as the coming next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft. At the beginning of January, British trade magazine MCV reported that the next Xbox and PlayStation would both debut at E3 2012. This did not actually end up happening, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was not slated to happen at one point. At E3, we did see next-gen tech demos for Epic's Unreal Engine 4 and Square Enix's Luminous Studio , as well as two major reveals sans any mention of specific platforms— Star Wars 1313 and Watch Dogs . Microsoft's Next Xbox, Codenamed Durango Two weeks later, IGN posted a rumor that pegged the next Xbox as being slated for a fall 2013 release and sporting a Radeon HD 6670-based GPU with graphics processing abilities six times that of the 360. The very next day after the IGN story, Kotaku 's own Stephen Totilo reported that i…
- Steam 2012 Holiday Sale now live - 20 December 2012
Steam's holiday sale has started up, and is set to last through January 5. Today's initial offerings offer deals on a few games and the entire library of some series. These come alongside Flash Sales, a community vote for the next sale game, and various publisher packs. , which last through tomorrow at midnight, include Scribblenauts Unlimited for $19.99, Mirror's Edge for $4.99, Wargame: European Escapation for $9.99, and 50-75% discounts on various games in the Hitman, Borderlands, and Prince of Persia series. The current poll lets you pick between 75% off Limbo , Braid , or The Secret of Monkey Island .
- This Week’s Nintendo Download Travels Back in Time For A Classic Version of Prince of Persia. Also: Goat-Stacking. - 6 September 2012
Listen, I love Prince of Persia . With all that lovely animation and derring-do, Jordan Mechner's adventure games are well-loved for good reason. For those wanting to re-visit PoP's charms, the Wii Virtual Console get the 1992 SNES version. But, guys: this Crazy Hunter game that appears in this week's Nintendo Download looks absolutely bizarre. Apparently you need to knock down tower-dwelling goats into a river, fish them out and stack them to the sky to grab hens that lay golden eggs. This doesn't seem like anything I ever saw on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom when I was growing up. Did Marlin Perkins lie to me all those years ago? Games Balloon Pop Remix Platform: 3DS/3DS XL Price: $7.99 Balloon Pop Remix takes the classic Balloon Pop formula and turns it on its head. Use the stylus to draw lines on the puzzle board and all the balloons in the line's path will pop, leading to mesmeriz…
- So, Tell Me About Yourself, Video Game - 24 August 2012
Video games need more "Call Me Ishmael." That quote is one of the most famous opening lines in all of literature. Sure, its popularity is owed largely to being the first sentence in Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick . But that introduction is also memorable because you're learning about an important character from the very second you start reading. Earlier this year, Max Payne 3 did the same trick, letting players know about Max's nihilistic wit and gallows humor before they ever fired a bullet or did a slo-mo dodge. If you never played a Max Payne game before, you still knew for the most part what kind of game you were getting in terms of mechanics. But the journey was about who you were playing as, which wasn't neccessarily something you could learn about just from shooting dudes. I was reading an issue of Mark Waid's excellent run of Marvel Comics' Daredevil when I stopped to…
- This Collection of Old Apple Hardware Is Heroic - 10 August 2012
If you are super old like me (hello old friends!), you'll remember using some of these Apple computers. If you are a young whippersnapper (hello young friends!), you might not—but you should still enjoy perusing the retro hardware that's on display. You are looking at a Russian collection of Apple computers, which website English Russia thinks might be one of the largest outside of the US. The collection belongs to Andrei Antonov, an Apple fan who's been collecting the company's hardware for the past three decades. Last fall, Antonov talked about putting his collection on display in Moscow. This summer, he launched the Museum of Apple Technology. Visitors can see—and get hands on with—Apple hardware from over the years. It's even possible to play games like Prince of Persia . Check out the museum in the above gallery, with more pictures in the links below. Museum of Ap…
- One Man's Terrific Art for Assassin's Creed, Prometheus and More - 6 August 2012
Here's another awesome Fine Art to get your week started on the right foot: a collection of works by David Levy, aka vyle, aka another of my very favourite concept artists in the whole wide world. David has worked on a number of big video games like Assassin's Creed (we've actually shown some of his art from this franchise before ) and Prince of Persia, but in recent times has also lent his talents to major Hollywood projects like Tron and Prometheus. He's now part of Steambot Studios , along with Sebastien Larroudé, whose work we featured here last week . You can see more of David's amazing pieces at his personal site . To see the larger pics in all their glory (or so you can save them as wallpaper), right-click on them below and select "open in new tab". Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios.…
- First Look at a Brand New Prince of Persia Reboot? - 5 August 2012
This image is reportedly our first look at a brand new Prince of Persia game. It was posted by a user on Ubisoft's official forums, and down the bottom you can see the term POP_ZERO_2. Is it real? Who knows, we're asking. Is it interesting ? You bet. If it is real, that's not just a black Prince, it looks to have at least part of the game set somewhere closer to Egypt than the series' traditional Persian stomping grounds, going by the clothing on that crowd. Prince of Persia Zero was the codename for an aborted attempt by Ubisoft a few years back to do something radical with the franchise, like taking it into the present day. While there are signs this really could be from an in-development build of the game - the crowd is "floating", the visuals are pretty rough and they all appear to be looking straight ahead...at his junk - I also shouldn't need to tell you how easy it is to fake som…
- The Weekly Download is Some of the Best News Nintendo's Released All Week - 7 June 2012
LEGO Batman! Prince of Persia! The Last Blade! Curling! If Nintendo had announced this week's downloadable titles during their E3 2012 press conferences, maybe we wouldn't all be trudging around like sad puppies today. I mean check out that lineup! You've got the original platforming action hero, an SNK arcade classic, a sport that Canadians really enjoy, and Batman! And that's just the tip of the iceberg, really. I didn't even mention the cat puzzle game or the Art of Balance ! And hey, there's a new Dinosaur Office video from the College Humor folks. Between that and tons of Nintendo E3 videos, your 3DS might be the one to watch this weekend. Bring tissues. Games The Last Blade Platform: WiiWare Price: 800 Wii Points Originally released in 1997, The Last Blade is a fighting game set in the "Bakumatsu" period of Japanese history, where 10-plus swordsmen are fighting for different purpo…
- The Geek Squad Who Rescued a Gaming Classic - 20 April 2012
At the end of March, Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner found the source code for the game years after he'd thought it was lost. But the data was saved on computer disks that were more than 20 years old—would they still be readable after all these years? Would it be safe to put them in an old disk-reader and risk losing the only copy of a classic game? Sounds like a job for Tony Diaz and Jason Scott, two computer collectors and archivists who helped Mechner pull the data from the disks and in the process, save Prince of Persia . In a great article over at Wired , Gus Mastrapa recounts how he was there when Diaz an Scott used their archival tools (and an old Apple computer) to thoroughly analyze and clean the disks, working through some of Mechner's other old prototypes as well. Among them, a stolen version of As a young programmer, Jordan Mechner was keen to create something…
- Prince of Persia Apple II source code released - 17 April 2012
Lost, but not forgotten, for 20 years, the source code for the very first Prince of Persia on the Apple II was released today by creator Jordan Mechner. The code was unknowingly discovered by his father on 3.5" floppy disks in a box at the back of a closet, and salvaged with the help of a huge amount of vintage hardware. Mechner was jubilant when a box of old games arrived in March from his dad, who also composed PoP's music, with the source code disks apparently amongst them. "I've been searching for , off and on, for the past ten years, pestering everyone from Doug Carlston to Danny Gorlin and everyone who ever worked at Broderbund, and finally gave up hope of ever finding ," he said. Decades-old disks can be volatile, though, so Mechner drafted expert help with specialised hardware to save them. It all went swimmingly, but you can follow it historically through the #popsource hashtag…
- Retrospective: Prince of Persia - 8 April 2012
On paper, 2008's Prince of Persia revamp was a pointless game. Don't get me wrong, it had every reason to exist, but its story and mechanics were essentially a long, meandering path back to square one. Critics and players alike took the game to task for a Prince who didn't so much walk the fine line between rogue-ish charm and loudmouthed dickery as he did wall-run right over it and into Nathan Drake's dirty, half-tuck-stained laundry. He never grew or changed, they said. Worse, he overshadowed the far more interesting Elika, whose grim determination to face her self-sacrificing destiny felt far more at home in POP's equal parts desolate and gorgeous world. And then there was the structure of the game itself, which - among other alleged crimes - traded Death's cold touch for an omnipresent helping hand from Elika. That's right: the Prince couldn't die. He also, incidentally, wasn't real…
- The Ugly Duckling of the Prince of Persia Series - 29 March 2012
It's funny, when people think of Prince of Persia games, they think of either the first one, or the ones including and following 2003's Sands of Time . It's as though there was a game in there that never existed... That game was 1999's Prince of Persia 3D . The 1989 original, and its 1993 sequel (which came in an amazing box ), are often lumped into the same memory banks. Both side-scrollers, both with amazing animation, both with spikes of instant death. Likewise, everything after Sands gets lumped together because, well, there's been almost a game a year since then, all of them 3D action titles, some of them better than others. Prince of Persia 3D, though, stands out. It wasn't 2D, it was 3D. But in being 3D, it wasn't the graceful, fluid style of game we've grown accustomed to over the last decade. It was, well. A bit of a disappointment. There were a ton of games around the turn of…
- Prince of Persia's Source Code Found in Dad's Closet - 29 March 2012
Jordan Mechner, the creator of the Prince of Persia series, hasn't had his hands on the source code to the original game for over a decade. Why? Because it had been sitting hidden in his dad's closet, that's why. Mechner recently got a call from his dad to tell him that, after cleaning out a closet in the family home, he stuffed the remains in a box. Inside the box were some 3.5″ Apple ProDOS disks, containing the original source code for one of the most important video games of all time. With the disks back in his possession, Mechner is now working on converting the code into something modern systems can actually understand. Once that's done, he says "as soon as we can extract something usable, I'll post it here". Prince of Persia Source Code - Found!
- The Original Prince of Persia Gets a Gorgeous HD iOS Makeover - 1 March 2012
Speaking of Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner , a beautiful high-definition remaster of his original masterpiece is now available for the iPhone and iPad , complete with new modes and animated cut scenes. Who's up for a field trip to Persia?
