October felt a little colder when the Prince of Persia Trilogy was announced for Europe and not North America. Why Ubisoft decided to do things this way is anyone’s guess, but North America won’t be left out for long. The collection will be released in North America before the end of December, but in digital form.

Since the beginning of August, we’ve been expecting Ubisoft to announce a re-release of the first three Prince of Persia games on the PlayStation 3. It’s taken a couple months, but Ubisoft has confirmed the Prince of Persia Trilogy is coming to Europe, the MIddle East and African territories on November 19, 2010 for £29.99.

Last time we took a look at the original trilogy of Prince of Persia games, and now we move onto the era of Ubisoft. The French developer took the franchise in a new direction, while maintaining the original feel the series was known for.

The Sands of Time

Despite the mainly negative reaction to the first 3D Prince of Persia, when publishing giant Ubisoft picked up the rights to the franchise it decided to…

Ubisoft has released a financial statement which says three things: 1) they’ve done really well from September to December 2008, raking in $625.81 million, thanks in no small part to Assassin’s Creed; 2) they intend to rake in a total of $1.21 billion for this fiscal year, which ends this April Fools Day; and 3) they’re going to release a new Prince of Persia game within the next fiscal year. No platform(s), gameplay or story details have been announced.

I was always under the impression that the past three games were supposed to be their own self-contained trilogy, so this game could be the start of a whole new plot arc, possibly with a different prince. On the other hand, the current prince changed his accent and…