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  • Prince of Persia: The Shadow and the Flame Coming to iOS

    Ubisoft today announced that it is bringing a new Prince of Persia game to mobile devices later this month. Titled Prince of Persia: The Shadow and the Flame, the game will be available on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Android devices on July 25 for $2.99/£1.99.

    The game is an updated version of Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame, which was released for MS-DOS back in 20 years ago. Instead of a straight port, Ubisoft has updated the game with new graphics and controls designed for touch screens. In addition to the visual upgrade, the game itself has been updated for today’s gaming standards. The game is now less trial-and-error based and features a new combo system has been implemented. It also features leaderboards, achievements, and (of course) Facebook integration.

    Though The Shadow and the Flame may not be the Prince of Persia game that fans were waiting for, it could, at the very least, be a sign that Ubisoft is beginning to consider the IP once again. With the main story of Assassin’s Creed having mostly run its course, it might make sense for Ubisoft to bring back Prince of Persia for the new console generation. In the meantime, the developer diary released today features Ubisoft developers talking about why and how The Shadow and the Flame has been improved from the game it is based on:

  • Nintendo Announces This Week’s Downloads

    Nintendo Announces This Week’s Downloads

    The highlight of this weeks Nintendo download announcement is the addition of E3 content made downloadable to your 3DS. But they also have some other notable releases this week including the original Prince of Persia to be played on the 3DS and Lego Batman 2 (also for 3DS).

    Available for free download on the 3DS this week are highlights from this years E3 conference. Players will be able to download trailers for the New Super Mario Brothers 2, Luigi’s mansion, Dark Moon and Paper Mario, and Sticker Star. A game demo for Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, is also available in this package, and can be purchased this week.

    One of the things that is going to make classic gamers excited is the addition of Price of Persia for the 3DS at a cost of $4.99. The pioneer in the platformer genre stays true to its original form in this download. In this game, you traverse sprawling levels, dodge traps, fight gaurds, and… do I really need to tell you what Prince of Persia is. Moving on.

    Art of Balance Touch! is also available. The physics based stacking game, has some potential for highly addictive gameplay. It features over 200 levels, so if this sounds like your thing, you will be entertained for a while. It’s available for 3DS at $6.99.

    Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes comes to the 3DS: This time the Dynamic Duo join forces with other famous DC super heroes including Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern to stop the notorious villains Lex Luthor and The Joker from destroying Gotham City. This is a full release, costing $39.99.

  • Master Copy of Prince of Persia Discovered

    Creator Jordan Mechner has found the long lost original Apple II master copy of his classic Prince of Persia. It had been lost for ten years.

    The 3.5″ disks of the original game were discovered by Mechner’s father (composer for the original Prince of Persia game) while doing some spring cleaning in his New York home. Mechner’s father sent him a junk box, filled with old computer stuff, completely unaware of what was inside.

    “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. The carton arrived yesterday. My jaw dropped when I saw what was inside,” Mechner wrote in his blog. “I’ve been searching for (Prince of Persia), 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.”

    Plans are now in place to recover the code and find some way to read it on modern machinery. Mechner may have some trouble, armed only with a Macbook Air.

    He promises to post the results on his blog the moment he extracts something usable.

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  • Prince of Persia Versus The Real World

    How many of you have dreamed of living in a video game world? Or, perhaps taking aspects from your video game and converting it to real life? Considering the current popularity of Skyrim, if that happened now, there’d be a helluva lot of dragons flying around.

    Let’s say, however, the game you wanted to bring to life was classic 2-D side scroller, from an age when pixels ruled the day? If you’re name is Karahat, and you live in Israel, you might make a Prince of Persia real-life homage, complete with the pixilated head and arms to capture the look and feel, almost perfectly.

    Take a look:


    The two minute, twenty second gem of a video captures the classic charm of the 1989 classic, going well beyond a mere pixilated mask for the main character to wear. The editing provides the necessary feel from that classic era of gaming, and the soundtrack makes for the perfect topper to this excellent piece of user-generated content.

    Unfortunately, there isn’t much information about the video’s creator. If you have any additional information concerning Karahat, feel free to share. Until then, enjoy the incredibly creative video he uploaded.

    Hat-tip to Dueling Analogs for point this out.