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“HELLO AGAIN, PRINCE OF PERSIA… LET’S SEE OTHER PAST HEROES REINVENTED.”

“Reinvent characters in ways that subvert conventions.”

verything in entertainment comes full circle eventually. Motown songs get sampled in contemporary hip-hop, Hollywood studios remake celluloid favourites from the 1980s and 1990s, and games are following suit, most recently with Prince Of Persia enjoying a comeback – with the prince as a side-character in the

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