Iconic gaming franchise Prince of Persia will return to our consoles in 2010, just in time for its arrival on the big screen next May.

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands will hit games consoles and handheld devices around the same time as the movie adaption The Sands of Time, which will star Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dartan alongside Britain’s own Ben Kingsley.

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The new console adventure, which has just been announced by publishers Ubisoft, will see a return to the Sands of Time storylines of previous games and will be revealed in full at the Video Game Awards 2009 ceremony on December 12th.

Link: Ubisoft (via NowGamer)

Music streaming service Spotify has denied rumours that it will be broadening its ever-growing reach to games consoles like the Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3.

Last week the revolutionary portal became available to download as an app for Symbian mobile phones, joining its Android and iPhone counterparts, and it seems the gossipmongers put two and two together to reach five.

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Although the next logical step would seem to be the big three games consoles, a Spotify representative today quashed all speculation, dismissing the talk as mere ‘anonymous rumours’.

The spokesman said: “We’ve always said that we want to be on as many devices as possible so that we can bring music to wherever are users are, but there’s no truth to these anonymous rumours about Spotify coming to game consoles any time soon.”

Notice that they haven’t ruled it out though…Hmmm.

Link: Spotify (via Techwatch)

The Sony PSP Go has undergone a staggering £100 price cut at HMV in the first real offensive of the Christmas shopping season.

The recession-busting, cut-price PlayStation Portable rings up at just £148.99 for a limited time only, as the retailer looks to kick-start what is expected to be another modest year of festive sales.

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HMV announced the bold move on its Twitter feed today, claiming that the offer would not be around too long, so we’d advise anyone looking at adding this to their shopping list to do so pronto. The white incarnation of the console is a penny shy of £200.

The PSP Go was launched at the E3 games expo earlier in this year and is the first of the Sony handheld devices to dispense with the controversial UMD format in favour of downloadable games.

If this deal is anything to go by, we could be in for a bumper season of gadget bargains.

Link: HMV (via Digital Spy)

The BBC looks like it’s preparing a dedicated iPlayer app for the iPhone and iPod touch.

In a monthly report created by the BBC detailing the iPlayer’s performance in the last month, there were two images displaying what looked like a new iPlayer app for the iPhone.

By the looks of it, the new app allows for standard streaming of BBC shows via the iPlayer as well an interactive functionality which allows users to send messages about shows. For example, one image shows a Chris Moyles show with an added button to “Send Chris a message”.

In the images the iPhone is connected via wireless so it’s not year clear whether the app will function over 3G.

Link: iPlayer (via Macworld, pic via Jordan Howell)
 

A keen set of researchers over at Dell have released an unofficial version of the new Google Chrome OS running on its Mini 10v netbook.
 

Just a week after the Chromium OS was released to the open source community for testing, Doug Anson, a Dell technology strategist, has finally reported success. It’s still very unstable, comes with no support and Doug warns "it’s definitely not perfect (read: highly experimental, untested, unstable, yada yada…) but it does appear to function."

It wasn’t a simple process with Doug noting that it’ll take between five and ten minutes for the network connection manager to allow you to connect. He’s also keen to point out that downloading it is at your own risk and it comes totally unsupported and is tested very minimally.

For the rest of us, we’ll have to wait another year before seeing the OS and there’s still no word on any official Google Chrome OS netbooks, but in the meantime if you fancy your chances on a Dell Mini 10v or any Linux device you can download the code here.
 

Link: Dell (via The Register)
 

Having already reviewed the LG GD510 Pop handset, we were impressed enough to whizz this budget touchscreen handset over to our video studio to give you a closer look.

Yes, the Pop is the world’s first full touchscreen phone to arrive at under £100, which is surprisingly undetrimental to its quality. We raved about the features and plentiful on-board apps, the large, bright screen and pocket-friendly size and so felt that pointing the T3 camera lens at this surprise package was more than merited.

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It’s available now, SIM free for £99.95 and could be the perfect stocking filler for that loved one yet to embrace the wondrous world of the touchscreen.

Link: LG

The next generation iPhone may be under testing in the San Francisco area according to app developer Pandav.

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The American company were analysing the usage of their iBART app – a public transport app – when they noticed a unique iPhone on their list of devices: a 3,1 device. This label could represent the latest generation iPhone, tentatively dubbed the iPhone 4G, as the iPhone 3GS is currently listed as a 2,1 device.

Last year, the 3GS was spotted in a similar fashion eight months before its launch, which means that the latest iPhone variant could be heading for another launch in June or July.

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard speculation about a next generation iPhone. Earlier this month, China Ontrade revealed what they reported to be the back casing of the fourth iPhone.

Link: Apple (via ITProPortal)

A few weeks ago, a controversial, ultra-realistic, visceral war video game hit store shelves and newspaper pages with equal ferocity. It was called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. You might well recognise the name.

Now, amid almost impossibly high sales, in a statement that can only really be answered with the phrase “Yeah, fair enough”, Activision Blizzard’s CEO Bobby Kotick has claimed that the Call of Duty series "is likely to be one of the most viewed of all entertainment experiences in modern history."

Yeah, fair enough.

In reality, over $300million in UK and US sales alone have blasted the game into the sales stratosphere, and the promise of downloadable content coming in 2010 will only bolster its appeal.

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With makers Infinity Ward suggesting that the first batch of downloadable levels is coming in "the wonderfully vague timeframe of Spring”, an analyst on behalf of Broadpoint AmTech has claimed that Activision will earn itself between $100 and $140 million in extra 2010 revenue from the franchise –  likely to dwarf that coming from most other titles. War is hell (for lesser developers).

Link: The Independent
 

A few weeks ago, a controversial, ultra-realistic, visceral war video game hit store shelves and newspaper pages with equal ferocity. It was called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. You might well recognise the name.

Now, amid almost impossibly high sales, in a statement that can only really be answered with the phrase “Yeah, fair enough”, Activision Blizzard’s CEO Bobby Kotick has claimed that the Call of Duty series "is likely to be one of the most viewed of all entertainment experiences in modern history."

Yeah, fair enough.

In reality, over $300million in UK and US sales alone thus far has blasted the game into the sales stratosphere, and the promise of downloadable content coming in 2010 will only bolster its appeal.

- Read our Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 review
- Modern Warfare 2 breaks first week sales record

With makers Infinity Ward suggesting that the first batch of downloadable levels is coming in "the wonderfully vague timeframe of Spring”, an analyst on behalf of Broadpoint AmTech has claimed that Activision will earn itself between $100 and $140 million in extra revenue for 2010 from the franchise – which’ll likely dwarf that coming from most other titles. War is hell (for lesser developers).

Link: The Independent
 

Lenovo looks set to follow HP, Acer and Dell into the congested mobile phone market after confirming it is to buy back its handset unit, with a smartphone device already in development.

The Lenovo Mobile division describes the mobile internet device as something that falls somewhere between a netbook and a smartphone. Chief financial officer Wong Wai Ming said, "We have prototypes already, and we need a strong execution platform."
 

Having enjoyed a recent return to profitability, Lenovo who sold its handset unit just 18 months ago, is set to re-acquire the part of the business for $200m, double the amount they had originally sold it for.
 

This latest development comes as the company realigns its business focus towards China. According to analysts, the Chinese mobile internet market is set to escalate to $16 billion by 2014, and Lenovo clearly has an eye on owning a substantial piece of that market.
 

Any Lenovo smartphone/netbook device is likely to hit stores in China only, but as we have seen with fellow PC-makers turned mobile manufacturers Dell, we wouldn’t rule out an appearance over here too.

Link: FT