Prince of Persia Prodigy rumoured

By Robert Purchese Published 24 April, 2008

Suspiciously official website found.

Internet watchers have found what could be the official site for the next Prince of Persia game.

It shows some swirling liquid behind an Arabic word translated to mean "Minjar" or telescope, according those on the Ubisoft forum.

There is no mention of the game being called Prince of Persia Prodigy, although those first on the scene reported that www.princeofpersiaprodigy.com redirected you to this mysterious site. It doesn't any more.

However, Ubisoft community voice "UbiRazz" didn't deny the site being a destination for Prodigy, and simply said "give it time" in the thread spouting all sorts of speculation and guesswork at what was headed our way.

The source code for the site also pulls up some interesting words, such as Ben Mattes (producer of Two Thrones and Rival Swords on Wii) and Ubisoft Montreal.

It also mentions UbiDays, which could suggest that the publisher plans to unveil the game at the upcoming event taking place in Paris in late May.

The Arabic symbol also appeared at the back of the most recent Edge magazine as a preview of the upcoming issue.

Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner began rumours recently after he trademarked the name Prince of Persia Prodigy.

Ubisoft has been contacted for comment.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • el_pollo_diablo #1 4 years ago

    meta name="keywords" content="Prince, Persia, Prince of Persia, PoP, Ubisoft, Ubi, Soft, Montreal, Studio, Ben Mattes, Development team, acrobatics, fun, best, action, adventure, game, ever, Ubidays, 2008, corruption, decay"

    - yep. Looks official to me.
    Edited by 1 at 24/04/08 @ 09:34

  • TheDifficult3rdAlbum #2 4 years ago

    ...Razz works for Ubisoft?

    0_o

  • JeroenZM #3 4 years ago

    So the Prince gets a black suit and emo hair in this one?

  • Prodigy_BE #4 4 years ago

    I hope this gets releases at the end of this year (we should probably look at the movie release for an exact date), cause I can sure use a new POP fix after the letdown that was Assassins Creed.

    And please Ubi, try to release a game without bugs for once.

  • kangarootoo #5 4 years ago

    The ubi.com domain is owned by ubisoft, so this has to be real right?

    I'm not an expert in this area by any means.

    I know you can track who owns a domain using sites such as [link url=http://www.allwhois.com.]http://www.allwhois.com.[/link] I also checked the page using the following handy javascript.

    noscript:alert(%22The real URL of this site is:%22+location.protocol+%22//%22+location.hostname+%22/%22) ;

    so it is definitely an ubi.com website.

    That script above can check that special characters aren't being used to spoof a domain in your browser address bar. I recommend people bookmark that script actually (assuming they trust me of course :) ), as it is useful from a security and peace of mind pov if you are following a link sent to you (rather than one you typed in yourself, which you obviously know is genuine, as you typed the letters).

  • ligurmatic #6 4 years ago

    Prince of Persia - now with added diesel power.

  • penhalion #7 4 years ago

    Why is it speculation that there is a new POP game coming? Wasn't it proven ages ago that some seemingly cacky tech demo movie was actually real and represented a work in progress POP game. That was like sometime last year if I recall.

  • rogueJT #8 4 years ago


    Another POP throw of the dice for Ubisoft?

    Maybe they might make some money this time.

    Here's hoping.

  • hiddenranbir #9 4 years ago

    But the Trilogy was so nicely contained...

    Hmmm, unless this is another recreation.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #10 4 years ago

    Something more in the spirit of Sands of Time would be fantastic.

  • space_ace #11 4 years ago

    prodigy- no good?

  • Barkotron #12 4 years ago

    Prodigy - it's going to be a Muppet Babies version of PoP?

    Sands of Time is still in my personal top 2 or 3 games of all time. If they even manage to make something half as good, it'll be a good shout for game of the year. Please no stomach-scrapingly bad metal this time!

  • Bru-Man #13 4 years ago

    Honestly, you just can't keep anything secret nowadays...

  • badabing #14 4 years ago

    @Prodigy_BE

    The game has nothing to do with the film.The film is based on the last POP not this one.