Tag archive: Tom Clancy

Bad news, Ghost Recon fans. Ubisoft released its estimated third quarter sales figures for fiscal 2011 in a press brief today, and a delay is in the card. Ghost Recon: Future Solider, which had been previously set for a March 6, 2012 release, has now been pushed out into Q1 of Ubi's fiscal 2012. “These extra few months will allow Ubisoft’s creative teams more time to refine the experience and deliver a game that fully achieves the… Read More

This coming March, it will have been four years since Ubisoft last released a Tom Clancy Rainbox Six title, and the natives are getting restless. It was never really a question of whether or not another entry in the franchise was on the way, just when. And while we still don’t know when to expect the next Rainbow Six, we may have a few clues on about what it may be called. Fusible was the first to catch on to Ubisoft’s recent domain registration… Read More

Although this is still unconfirmed, and therefore technically a rumor, there is a strong indication that Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will be released on March 6, the same day as Mass Effect 3 and the rebooted XCOM. The news doesn’t come from Ubisoft, so the info could be incorrect or just changed, but Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop and Wal-Mart all have the game due on March 6, according to GameSpot, who first spotted the listing. The… Read More

Video gaming fans, please welcome The Game Bakers. The new studio announced its existence today with a press release and a website confirming that it is very much a thing, founded by former Ubisoft staffers Audrey Leprince and Emeric Thoa. The France-based studio is focused on creating “AAA quality games for mobile platforms,” an interesting turnaround for both founders. Between them, Leprince and Thoa have worked on a wide variety… Read More

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was one of my favorite games at last year’s E3, and it remains one of my favorite games for this year as well. I just don't want it to be among my favorite games for E3 2012, because I’m hoping it will be out long before that. Ubisoft is promising an early 2012 release, and rumors of a January target date have been bandied about–whether or not that is accurate, a Q1 release is the plan. But… Read More

Do you like to fly? Do you like to fly really fast without pesky little things like physics standing in the way? Do you like to fly really fast while laying utter waste to hundreds of airborne and ground forces, while possible even decimating a city or two in the process? Then H.A.W.X. 2 might be the game for you. While people craving the realistic and demanding nature of a true flight simulator might have to wait for the recently announced… Read More

Ubisoft has officially launched its newest Tom Clancy military video game franchise EndWar, available for both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. EndWar is set in a fictional World War III in the year 2020, the game imagines a world where Middle Eastern oil has been cut off by a nuclear exchange, Russia establishes itself as the world's leading supplier of energy, and space-based anti-ballistic missile systems create an uneasy peace.… Read More

Games creation company Ubisoft has announced that it’s acquired visual effects company Hybride Technologies, the Canadian company that added visual effects to movies like 300, Sin City and the Spy Kids series. Ubisoft plans to share technology to up the quality of effects for games and, through Hybride, to hopefully brings its intellectual properties to the screen. Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft’s CEO, said: “The acquisition… Read More

Hot on the heels of Voodoo’s Envy M:152 gaming laptop, Dell announced its own competitor for that niche market, the similarly named XPS M1730, on Thursday. “The beast,” as Dell is fond of calling it, is the first notebook to get a mobile PhysX processor from Ageia, as well as Logitech’s GamePanel LCD. Upgraded M1730s get Intel’s Extreme Edition Core 2 Duo x7900 processor, which runs at 2.8GHz with… Read More

Just days after Sony officials were publicly denying news of an impending $100 price cut on the Playstation 3, the company has announced that there will, in fact, be a $100 price cut on the Playstation 3. In a press release Monday morning, Sony announced both the slashed $499 price of its 60GB PS3, and the introduction of an 80GB model packaged with Motorstorm, which will take over for the previous model and retail at $599. Besides… Read More

According to new figures from market analysis form NPD Group, Sony's Gods of War II for the PlayStation 2 topped video game sales, pushing 833,000 units into consumers' hands during the month. Sales for the Greek myth-themed game were more than double those of the month's second best-selling game, Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for the Xbox 360. Rounding out the top five game sellers… Read More

PlayStation fans will be able to get their hands on a lot more games in the coming months, promises Sony. The Foster City, Calif.-based company said today it will launch more than 100 titles for its PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation2 products. The beefed-up second-quarter of 2007 line-up will comprise industry leading franchises as well as new intellectual properties from both in-house and third parties, according to Sony… Read More

New sales numbers from market research firm NPD show that the Nintendo Wii was far and away the top-selling video game console during January 2007, moving some 436,000 units during the month. However, the rest of the pack was comparatively tight, with Sony's long-standing PlayStation 2 claiming the number two spot with 299,000 units sold, while Microsoft's Xbox 360 landed the number three position with 294,000 units sold and… Read More

Know for their articulate role playing games with series like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts, Square Enix has entered an agreement with Epic Games to use their Unreal Engine 3 middleware for future game development. "The complexity of next-generation game systems featuring HD graphics and multi-core parallel processing poses a number of technological challenges to our game development. However, we can expedite our game… Read More

Nintendo is launching is Wii gaming console on November 19…but everyone knows a new gaming system is only as appealing as the games people can play on it. To that end, Nintendo has announced the titles which will be available for the Wii within the console's “launch window,” loosely defined as the system's first five weeks of availability, although many titles will be available simultaneously with the… Read More