- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake and more cancelled by Ubisoft, with layoffs potentially on the horizon - 21 January 2026
Given its lengthy, troubled development period, it will probably not come as any surprise to you that Ubisoft have announced today that their Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake has been cancelled. This comes as part of a broader restructure at the company , which will apparently focus on what they call five "specialised creative houses" to "reclaim creative leadership and restore sustainable growth." Read more
- Get one of the best games ever made for less than $2 - 28 July 2023
Prince of Persia The Sands of Time is one of those rare, landmark games that influences everything that follows it for years to come. The parkour and style of Assassin's Creed, the witty, roguish hero of Uncharted, and the tightly built drama of Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider all owe something to Prince of Persia The Sands of Time , one of the greatest platform and action-adventure games ever. With a full remake in development by Ubisoft, and The Lost Crown also set to arrive in 2024, if you want to revisit the classic that is Prince of Persia, or maybe experience it for the first time, it won't even cost you $2. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Ubisoft giving away free games every month for their 30th starting with Prince of Persia Watch The Sands of Time and other games played by their developers in Double Fine's new YouTube series
- Twice-delayed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake now arriving next year - 7 June 2021
Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, which has been delayed twice since its unveiling last September , now won't arrive until some time next year. Originally, the Sands of Time remake - which is being developed by Ubisoft Pune and Mumbai - was due to launch this January, but Ubisoft made the decision to postpone its release to March at the end of last year . When February arrived, however, the publisher announced it would be delaying the game once more , this time indefinitely, while it worked on delivering "a remake that feels fresh while remaining faithful to the original". All's been quiet on the news front since then, but in a new statement posted to Twitter - ostensibly confirming that the remake will be absent from this year's Ubisoft Forward livestream - the publisher has shared a revised release window of 2022 for the project. Read more
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake gets second delay - 5 February 2021
Ubisoft has announced a second delay for its Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, which had already seen its release date shifted from January 2021 to 18th March in a decision made late last year . It's now due to arrive on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC at an unspecified "later date". In a newly released statement posted to Twitter , Ubisoft wrote, "Since announcing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake in September, we saw an outpouring of feedback from you on this beloved franchise. It is your passion and support that is driving our development teams to make the best game possible." With that in mind, the decision has been made to push the game's 18th March launch back "to a later date" and the publisher says it will be using the additional development time to "deliver a remake that feels fresh while remaining faithful to the original". Read more
- Looks like Ubisoft has delayed its Prince of Persia remake - 8 December 2020
UPDATE 5PM UK: Ubisoft UK has now confirmed its Prince of Persia delay also applies here too. ORIGINAL STORY 2PM UK: Ubisoft has apparently delayed its upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake until 18th March 2021, according to the publisher's Czech Republic Facebook page. The remake was previously due to arrive in January. Read more
- Here's everything new in that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake - 10 September 2020
After various leaks , Ubisoft has now officially announced Prince of Persia will return to PC and consoles for the first time in a decade, in what it is calling its first "fully-fledged" remake. This new version of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time will arrive for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 21st January, and is playable on both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X via backwards compatibility. In a virtual presentation seen by Eurogamer last week, game director Pierre Sylvain-Gires and senior producer Annu Koul detailed some of the work done on the game to update it. Read more
- Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Remake announced - 10 September 2020
Ubisoft today announced they’re remaking Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time , 2003’s fun action-platformer about a wall-running lad with a magical time-rewinding dagger. Seems they’re winding time forwards on the game, fully redoing art, getting folks into motion capture suits for new animations, and even getting the Prince’s original actor back in for a new performance. It’s coming in January under the imaginative name Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Remake . Here, check out the trailer: (more…)
- Ubisoft leaks Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake on Uplay - 10 September 2020
UPDATE: Ubisoft has officially announced Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake after this morning's leak. It's due out 21st January 2021 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The trailer is below: Read more
- A pitch video for a new Prince Of Persia leaked years ago, and people only just noticed - 7 May 2020
A pitch video for Prince Of Persia Redemption has appeared, a hitherto unknown and apparently cancelled entry in Ubisoft’s fantasy stab-o-parkour series. It shows several minutes of mocked-up jumping around, swordfighting, magic, and an impressively vast beastie. What’s weird is that this video has been on YouTube since 2012, barely unnoticed until yesterday. It has been confirmed as real by Jonathan Cooper, who was the animation art director on Assassin’s Creed III at Ubisoft Montreal, so… huh! (more…)
- Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Free On Uplay - 16 June 2016
Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time from 2003 is a cracking reboot of the platformer series, swinging swords and dashing along walls on a magical adventure with wizards and sand monsters and a narrator who keeps explaining that he didn’t actually fall on those spikes but he did but no not really but he did but not really. It’s framed as a story the prince tells, y’see, so deaths are explained as mis-tellings. Nice! And it’s just generally nice? The point is, right now Ubisoft are giving it away for free. …
- Have You Played Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time? - 5 August 2015
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. A few notable exceptions aside, platformers became pants during the transition to 3D, especially on PC. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was one of the first to win me back over, a slick, stylish, wall-running take on Jordan Mechner’s classic 2D games. It’s a grand adventure through – and over, and edging around parapets of – a colourful Arabian palace in a fairytale of swords, sorcery, sweet flips, and sand monsters. …
- Daily Deal - Prince of Persia, 75% Off - 3 April 2013
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- 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…
- Jordan Mechner finds original Apple 2 Prince of Persia source code - 30 March 2012
The original Apple 2 source code for Prince of Persia (1989) has been found by Jordan Mechner's father during a spot of spring cleaning. A chuffed Jordan Mechner will now try to convert the archaic disks into a readable format for today's computers. And then he'll share what he can of the original Prince of Persia code on his website. "My dad called from New York to tell me he was doing some spring cleaning and had shipped me a carton of old games and other stuff of mine he'd found in the back of a closet," Jordan Mechner wrote. "The carton arrived yesterday. My jaw dropped when I saw what was inside. Apple 2 source code for the original, 1989 Prince of Persia. "No, I don't mean the stacks of Spanish Drosoft versions of POP and Karateka," he added, referencing the picture. "I mean those three little plastic 3.5" disk boxes nestled among them, which appear to contain the original Apple 2…
- Games bleeding into real life - study - 21 September 2011
For some, a video game doesn't stop when the power is turned off - their gaming experiences are bleeding into their day-to-day lives. This can lead to video game-like reactions to real-life situations, Nottingham Trent University and Stockholm University have discovered. It's called Game Transfer Phenomena. The study - Game Transfer Phenomena in Video Game Playing: A Qualitative Interview Study - interviewed 42 "frequent" gamers aged between 15 and 21 years old. "Many" of the subjects "appeared to integrate elements of video game playing into their real lives". The full study must be bought for $30. One amusing excerpt reported on The Metro website describe a 15 year-old boy wanting to use a gravity gun from Half-Life 2 to fetch something from the fridge. And why not? One 19-year-old Price of Persia: Sands of Time enthusiast dropped his sandwich and immediately his finger used to press…
- Prince of Persia HD Collection Coming to North America in Pieces - 15 November 2010
The Prince of Persia HD Collection is a European-exclusive Blu-ray collection of Ubisoft's original Prince of Persia collection remastered in high definition, but that doesn't mean North America won't be able to play them. We're just not getting the Blu-ray. Nestled within the press release for Ubisoft's first half 2010-2011 financial results are upcoming release listings for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, and Prince of Persia: the Warrior Within, all listed for the PlayStation Network. A separate entry lists the European-exclusive Prince of Persia HD Collection , which collects those three games with a high definition makeover and 3D support. What does it mean? According to Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot , speaking during the financial results conference call, those three titles will be downloadable via the PlayStation Network. North America isn't get…
- Prince of Persia HD Collection Is Europe Only, In 3D, Royally Ugly - 5 October 2010
The previously rumored Prince of Persia Trilogy 3D for the PlayStation 3 has been confirmed by publisher Ubisoft today, stuffing three PS2 games onto one Blu-ray disc, which will only be available in Europe. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones will get a visual upgrade for the re-release, but judging by the first three screen shots of the compilation, not a terribly impressive visual upgrade. Either the sands of time have not been kind to the Prince, or we've forgotten what these PS2 games originally looked like. Sure, the original Sands of Time looks alright, and maybe we've been spoiled by Sony's other HD makeovers (God of War, Shadow of the Colossus & Ico), but Warrior Within... what happened? Ubisoft says the trio of Prince of Persia games will run in 720p resolution, plus feature new textures, normal maps, anti…
- This Video Game Movie Wouldn't Be Like Those Other Ones - 2 June 2010
What makes it different is that the man who created the game, Jordan Mechner, set up the movie deal. In 2003, Mechner wrote and designed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time game. And while game companies have been directly involved in the filmmaking process in the past, that has meant little. But Mechner wrote the first draft of The Sands of Time script after pitching super producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Black Hawk Down, The Rock, The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise) in 2004. Miro and his co-writing partner and childhood friend from Detroit, Carlo Bernard, were then brought on by Bruckheimer to work on the screenplay for the film that would become Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Even though screenwriting duties were passed on, Mechner remained involved in the process. "Jerry respects the game," says Miro. "He respects Jordan." From the get go, the two were encouraged to take the so…
- Frankenreview: Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time - 31 May 2010
The power to rewind time will not save video game movie adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time from the likes of Roger Ebert and the assembled movie critics in this rare but highly warranted movie Frankenreview. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time might never live up to star Jake Gyllenhaal's most famous role. It's doubtful that a video game adaptation could ever stir the emotions or make a person re-evaluate their life like 2001's Bubble Boy did, but with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Mike Newell behind him, maybe Jake can actually turn back time to that storied moment in his career. You will believe a man can jump around like a monkey, but is it art? New York Daily News Dastan is framed for his father's death, but the real reason for the chase is because the dagger has a doohickey on it that, when pressed, releases mystical "sand from the gods." The resulting storm s…
- Pre-Purchase Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands, Get Warrior Within Now - 25 May 2010
Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands™ , the next chapter in the fan-favorite Sands of Time universe, is now available for pre-purchase via Steam. Also available is the Digital Deluxe Edition , which includes two exclusive skins, one exclusive map, the soundtrack of the game, and a free digital copy of Prince of Persia Sands of Time to play right away. Pre-purchase the Standard Edition or Digital Deluxe Edition before release and get a free copy of Prince of Persia Warrior Within to play right away. Already own Warrior Within or Sands of Time on Steam? Give your extra copy to a friend.
