{"id":124876,"date":"2022-05-04T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124876"},"modified":"2022-05-04T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:00:26","slug":"ubisoft-montreal-takes-over-prince-of-persia-remake-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124876-ubisoft-montreal-takes-over-prince-of-persia-remake-development","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft Montr\u00e9al takes over Prince of Persia remake development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft has announced that its Montr\u00e9al studio in Canada is taking over the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n<p>The remake was originally in development at Ubisoft&#8217;s India-based Mumbai and Pune studios.<\/p>\n<p>Initially slated for a March 2021 release, the Prince of Persia remake has been plagued by pandemic-related difficulties, which led to Ubisoft postponing its launch indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>This new announcement likely means even more delays for the title, as the remake isn&#8217;t only a reskin but a whole new project built in Ubisoft Montr\u00e9al&#8217;s Anvil game engine.<\/p>\n<p>The games developed using Anvil include the entire Assassin&#8217;s Creed franchise, For Honor, and Immortals Fenyx Rising.<\/p>\n<p>According to the announcement, the Ubisoft Montr\u00e9al team will &#8220;take the time they need to regroup on the scope of the game to deliver the best experience for this remake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft has given no further details regarding a release window, and the new development team will be given all the time it needs to deliver the remake to eager fans &#8220;when it&#8217;s ready&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">An update on the development of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8xQpqyPSwQ\">pic.twitter.com\/8xQpqyPSwQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Prince of Persia (@princeofpersia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/princeofpersia\/status\/1521519964074749954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124875-the-games-coming-to-xbox-game-pass-in-the-first-half-of-may\">The games coming to Xbox Game Pass in the first half of May<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development studio responsible for the original Prince of Persia trilogy has taken over the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":123687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[1922,26106,4008,26107,26108],"class_list":["post-124876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-delay","tag-prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time-remake","tag-ubisoft-montreal","tag-ubisoft-mumbai","tag-ubisoft-pune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}