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In this brilliant video from Israel's Karahat, the hero of Jordan Mechner's 1989 platforming classic comes to life in pixel-perfect form, right down to the stumbling animations and Mario prison romance. More »
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It's pronounced "cara-take-a." And the hit Apple II game is coming back this year. More »
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In 1985 Jordan Mechner was a student at Yale riding high on a mix of euphoria over the surprise success of his first video game, Karateka, and trepidation over the idea of turning that success into a career. More »
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An acclaimed motion picture artist, Joseph Mclamb has helped shape the creative vision of movies as big as Avatar and Clash of the Titans. More »
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Watching a supposed mobile camera capture from the ruins of the ousted Gaddafi regime in Libya, Dutch site InsideGamer spotted something strange. Seems Colonel Gaddafi's fifth son, Moatassem-Billah Gaddafi, might be the world's biggest Prince of Persia fan. More »
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Frenchman Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier has been drawing pretty pictures for the video game industry since 1996, in a career that's taken him from Darkworks (Cold Fear) to Ubisoft to id Software and now to Microsoft, where he's working on the upcoming Halo 4. More »
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Thierry "BARONTiERi" Doizon is something of a legend in the world of video game concept art, having been in the business since 1995. More »
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It's funnier when you realise, three seconds in, that anyone who's ever played the original Prince of Persia has done just this. Only maybe not to such catchy music. [via Boing Boing] More »
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Not only can you now relive this year's Game Developers Conference keynote from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who spoke about the creation of Kirby and the devaluation of games in "Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future," you can experience the best part of GDC 2011: the classic game post mortems. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5785083&view=rss&microfeed=true According to the ESRB's website, the Splinter Cell and prince of Persia HD collections due for the PlayStation 3 will also be making an appearance on the Xbox 360. More »
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There were so many things to get excited about in 2010! So many things to cherish! Sadly, life isn't all kittens and rainbows, and for every up, there must be a down. More »
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The Prince of Persia movie, which was great by virtue of not sucking, could have been a little better had the production team stuck to the original script handed in by the game's original creator, Jordan Mechner. More »
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While the screenshots from yesterday had me thinking Captain America meets Castle Wolfenstein, the gameplay trailer for Next Level's Captain America: Super Soldier shows off an acrobatic hero that could give the Prince of Persia a run for his money. More »
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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. More »
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The Prince of Persia franchise may have dodged a bullet this generation, saving fans from the discomfort of seeing the series thrust into the modern age, an idea that was ultimately scrapped for a PoP reboot of a different nature. More »
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Two rumored high-definition ports of PlayStation 2 games, bound for the PlayStation 3, look less like rumors today. Supposed box art for Mortal Kombat HD Arcade Kollection and Prince of Persia 3D Trilogy has apparently been outed by retailers. More »
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It doesn't matter that the Prince of Persia is a dude. A chesty dude. Meagan VanBurkleo wanted to dress up like him, so dress up like him she has. And what a cracking job she's done. More »
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First there was God of War, then Sly, now it appears two more franchises are taking their PlayStation 2 entries and tarting them up for a release on the PlayStation 3. More »
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The pressure was enormous. Legions of fans worried. Prince of Persia, the movie, was more than a summer blockbuster. "Maybe I'm being melodramatic," says movie scribe Doug Miro. Then again, maybe he's not. This was a Hollywood video game adaptation. More »
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I was delighted to discover this morning that you can buy the original Prince of Persia for both the iPhone and iPad for a penny shy of a dollar on either system. More »
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Prince of Persia director Mike Newell tells Reuters that he's worried that the film is "a little homogeneous". Critics are already saying the film is a whitewash — filled with white actors. But is it, and are they correct? More »
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Fans of perfectly sculpted pecs and Jake Gyllenhaal are no doubt ecstatic about the upcoming release of Disney's new Prince of Persia movie, but the casting decision to put Chesty Jake in the starring role isn't sitting well with everyone. More »
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Want to put the fear of a fancy and fashionable assassination into your foes in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands? Then get thee to the nearest Ubisoft game and sign up for their Uplay scheme. More »
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Who was at the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time big-time Mann's Chinese Theater premiere in Hollywood yesterday? These folks, among others... More »
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Chest this, chest that. Prince of Persia star Jake Gyllenhaal is more than a chest. He is also wonderful hair. And good hygiene. More »
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In the Hollywood version of video game Prince of Persia, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Chesty Jake Prince Dastan. How did he get ready to play the part? More »
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The Prince of Persia move trailer gets the Lego remix treatment. Compare Lego to live-action with a couple of clicks of your mouse. More »
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Hollywood super producer Jerry Bruckheimer (not pictured) has seen the future. And it's gamey. More »
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We knew that LEGO was getting its own take on Prince of Persia, but seeing the images is nothing compared to watching those mini-figs come to life in a commercial. More »
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I've written before that I don't care much for adaptations. If I love a game, I don't need to see a movie about it. If I like a movie, I don't need to read the graphic novel. More »
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Whether it's Doom or Super Mario Bros., video game movies have a bad rep. It's a mostly deserved rep. But Hollywood super producer Jerry Bruckheimer (The Rock, Pirates of the Carribean) doesn't think it's so cut and dried. More »
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RoboCop director Paul Verhoeven is having a go at the video game movie business, working on an "Indiana Jones-ish" but also "Hitchcockian" video game set in the year 1914. Could it be anything other than Jordan Mechner's The Last Express? More »
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We're not talking popularity here, but size, physical size — er, scope. Distance! Get your mind out of the gutter. More »
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There must be a reason why the Oscar-nominated actor decided to be in the video game film. Turns out, there are several. More »
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The animation director for Prince of Persia says the game's suffered from a migration of players away from it and to the God of War series, and says his game's tamer visuals, particularly death animations, are the reason why. More »
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This is it, here we go. From "Courage" to Russia, there have been a couple of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie posters. You are looking at the final one. More »
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We've seen the figures for LEGO's Prince of Persia range before, but not the actual playsets. So let's look at those playsets. And yes, there are ostriches. More »
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Not this one. This one is the U.S. promotional poster for the big screen version of the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It's...boring! Russia, god bless 'em, did a much better job. More »
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time? More like the shirtlessness of Jake Gyllenhaal. Though, like the last trailer, it was short on Chesty Jake. More »
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