Prince of Persia Gone Gold

Ubisoft’s upcoming Prince of Persia title has gone gold. The game has been sent off to manufacturing plants to replicate the DVDs and get ready for retail. Read more

Prince of Persia DLC Confirmed

Ubisoft has confirmed some yummy/juicy/icky/gooey DLC for upcoming Prince of Persia title. Read more

Prince of Persia PC System Requirements

Ubisoft has released PC Specifications for Prince of Persia on their Official forum According to the post, “There are no recommended specs as basically anything you have over this will run it nicely.”

Here’s the minimum requirements:

• Supported OS: Windows XP/Windows Vista
• Processor: Dual core processor 2.6 GHz Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or better recommended)
• RAM: 1 GB Windows XP/2 GB Windows Vista
• Video Card: 256 MB DirectX 10.0?compliant video card or DirectX 9.0?compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list)
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 or 10.0?compliant sound card (5.1 sound card recommended)
• DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 or 10.0 libraries (included on disc)
• DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM dual-layer drive
• Hard Drive Space: 8 GB
• Peripherals Supported: Keyboard, mouse, optional controller (Xbox 360 Controller for Windows recommended)
• Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: ATI RADEON X1600/1650-1950/HD 2000/3000 series NVIDIA GeForce 6800/7/8/9 series

Prince of Persia - QnA, Screenshots

Ubisoft has released the first screenshots for upcoming title; Prince of Persia as well as a related QnA. Check it out below:

Answers from Ben Mattes / Producer

Could you introduce yourself and explain your role in the project?
I’m Ben Mattes, producer of the next Prince of Persia title.

On which platforms will this new PoP be available?
Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
We are also developing a completely different game which is specifically designed for the DS.

When will the games be released?
Holidays season 2008. Read more

Splash Damage Hires Industry Veterans

 

Splash Damage, the developer of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, has hired four game industry veterans to work on their announced multiplatform project. Atleast Splash Damage was smart enough to acknowledge how inadequate they are when it comes to developing great games. Maybe the four hired veterans will add another cheek to their half-ass work. Maybe?

Press Release: 

Splash Damage, the award-winning independent developer, today announced the hiring of four industry heavyweights to its team. Following the recent announcement of its partnership with Bethesda Softworks®, Splash Damage is planning to double the size of its development team to more than 60 staff as it moves into multi-platform development on an as-yet unannounced title. Read more

New Prince of Persia Preview

French gaming magazine Joypad has a preview of the upcoming Prince of Persia title. Eurogamer.net has roughly translated the preview into english. Here’s a snip:

Creative director Jean-Christophe Guyot told Joypad that the aim was to create a more fantastical game and “more poetic vision” than the Sands of Time trilogy, with which it shares no connection. “The previous trilogy mixed the Arabian Nights in with historical Persia,” he said (in French, so please excuse our rough translation). “We decided we’d prefer to return to the tales of the Thousand and One Nights for something more colourful.

New Prince of Persia Title Officially Announced

As reported earlier, new chapter in Prince of Persia series was in the works, now Ubisoft has officially announced it. Although the name was not revealed, next POP game will be coming to PCs, consoles as well as DS. Full press release below:

Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announced that a new Prince of Persia is scheduled to release towards the end of 2008 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and PC. This new Prince of Persia marks the debut of the critically acclaimed franchise on next-generation consoles. Developed by Ubisoft’s award-winning Montreal studio and the same all-star team that created the previously acclaimed Prince of Persia® Sands of Time trilogy, Prince of Persia is opening a new chapter in the Prince of Persia universe, featuring a new breed of gameplay. The game is poised to rejuvenate the action-adventure genre in addition to introducing a brand-new illustrative art style.

Ubisoft will also release a Prince of Persia game specifically designed for the Nintendo DS™ system, featuring an entirely new storyline and new characters. More details to be unveiled in the future.

No media or assets are available at this time.

Prince of Persia: Prodigy In Works

According to Trademork.com, next installment of Ubisoft’s acclaimed Prince of Persia series is in the works.

On April 15, 2008, video game designer Jordan Mechner, the creator and owner of the Prince of Persia game franchise, filed to protect the trademark Prince of Persia Prodigy in relation to “game software and electronic game programs; electronic game software for mobile phones, personal digital assistants, and handheld computers”

Ubisoft has also registered the URL princeofpersiaprodigy.com. At the time of writing, the site redirects to Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia UK site.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time - Shootings Starts In Mid-June

According to Variety.com, upcoming game-to-movie adoption Prince of Persia: Sands of Time will start shooting in mid-june in morroco. Here’s a snip:

“Producers are always looking for cheap places to shoot and Morocco is one of them,” said Dune Films’ Jimmy Abounouom, who is repping the Moroccan shoot for Disney.

Epic project is a live-action feature based on the videogame. “Prince of Persia” has a script by Jeffrey Nachmanoff (”The Day After Tomorrow”) and vidgame creator Jordan Mechner. The vidgame spawned six installments and numerous spin-offs, boosting Disney execs’ hopes for a lucrative new tentpole.

Choice of Morocco as a shooting location will be a boost for the North African country’s film biz.

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