• Splinter Cell Blacklist Abandoned Mill Walkthrough Trailer

    PAX East is heating up in Boston, MA and many publishers and developers around the world are taking this opportunity to release some brand new trailers and information on upcoming games. While today's Splinter Cell Blacklist trailer wasn't released at PAX, you can be damn sure that it was released during PAX to take advantage of all of the hype that is surrounding our industry right now.

    Narrated by Blacklist Game Director Patrick Redding, the trailer shows off one of the missions in the game with developer commentary sprinkled throughout. The mission takes place in an abandoned mill in London, UK. This video does a great job showing us some of the new gadgets and tools that Sam Fisher will have at his disposal in this next Splinter Cell game. 

    Check it out below and make sure you follow FPS General on Facebook and Twitter to stay up to date on all the latest happenings during PAX East 2013!

  • Splinter Cell: Blacklist Releasing on August 20th

    Ubisoft has announced that Splinter Cell: Blacklist will be infiltrating enemy lines across all battlefronts on August 20th. Which is just a fancy way of us saying that it's coming out on August 20th on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

    In addition to this announcement, the team has released a brand new trailer for the game which intersperses footage of Sam Fisher suiting up in his trademark gear with clips of previous United States Presidents being sworn in to office on their inauguration day. In Blacklist, Sam Fisher works directly for the current president who has entrusted Fisher and his Fourth Echelon team with the task of stopping a group of terrorists from carrying out their lethal plot. The groups has launched The Blacklist, an attack plan that will see an escalating countdown of terrorist attacks against the United States.

    Sam Fisher and the Fourth Echelon must find and stop these terrorists before the countdown reaches zero.

    Check out the trailer after the break and visit http://splintercell.ubi.com/ for more information on the game!

  • Rainbow 6: Patriots Coming to Next-Gen Hardware?

    According to Ubisoft CEO, Yves Guillemot, the next iteration of Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 franchise may be heading to next generation hardware. 

    Speaking to Polygon, Guillemot said that Rainbow 6: Patriots is looking great and that 'there's a good chance' that it may end up debuting on next-generation hardware, namely Sony and Microsoft's next major consoles. In the conversation, Guillemot also said...

    "The only thing I can say is that we have a good team working on it, and it's really looking good. So when it will come, it will surprise the industry."

    Rainbow 6: Patriots follows the actions of a domestic terrorist organization known as the 'True Patriots'. Seeking economic equality - albeit through less than diplomatic means - the True Patriots are attacking New York City in an effort to overthrow the current economic system and replace it with something more equal.

    Rainbow 6: Patriots is currently in-development at Ubisoft Montreal, with Ubisoft Toronto and Ubisoft Red Storm providing support.

    Source: MP1ST

  • Behind the Scenes on Ghost Recon: Future Soldier's Khyber Strike DLC

    Ubisoft is taking players back Inside Recon, in a brand new episode of the Ghost Recon: Future Soldier behind-the-scenes series.

    This time around, Tommy Jacob - Creative Director on Multiplayer - is walking us through the recently released Khyber Strike DLC offering. Khyber Strike includes:

    New weapons, new game and three new maps:

    Switchback: Step off the main road leading down into the city and into a maze of ancient buildings and narrow alleys. The twists and turns of the alleyways turn every corner into a close-quarters deathtrap.

    Palace: There's no time for reflection even in this magnificent relic. What once was a museum dedicated to showing the glories of the past is now a battlefield, with a massive courtyard at the heart of its contested ground.

    Transit: A Moscow metro station makes for close quarters and close-range combat. Trains pulling into and out of the station add to the danger as Ghosts and Bodark slug it out underground.

    Watch the latest Inside Recon above!

  • First Look at Ghost Recon: Future Soldier's Khyber Strike DLC

    Earlier this month, Ubisoft Red Storm revealed a brand new DLC offering for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, their recently released third-person shooter.

    The Khyber Strike DLC is available today and brings new maps, new game modes and new weapons to Ghost Recon: Future Soldier's online multiplayer mode. The three new maps include:

    Switchback: Step off the main road leading down into the city and into a maze of ancient buildings and narrow alleys. The twists and turns of the alleyways turn every corner into a close-quarters deathtrap.

    Palace: There's no time for reflection even in this magnificent relic. What once was a museum dedicated to showing the glories of the past is now a battlefield, with a massive courtyard at the heart of its contested ground.

    Transit: A Moscow metro station makes for close quarters and close-range combat. Trains pulling into and out of the station add to the danger as Ghosts and Bodark slug it out underground.

    Released this morning, the trailer above shows some of this brand new Ghost Recon: Future Soldier content in action.

    Give it a look and for more information, you can visit http://ghost-recon.ubi.com/.

  • Ubisoft Announces Khyber Strike DLC For Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

    Ubisoft Red Storm has announced a brand new DLC package coming to their recently released third-person shooter, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. The Khyber Strike DLC will feature 3 new maps, 1 new multiplayer game mode, 1 new Guerilla mode map and a level cap increase of 10 ranks. All of this content also comes with new corresponding achievements.

    The 3 new maps are Switchback, Palace and Transit:

    Switchback: Step off the main road leading down into the city and into a maze of ancient buildings and narrow alleys. The twists and turns of the alleyways turn every corner into a close-quarters deathtrap.

    Palace: There's no time for reflection even in this magnificent relic. What once was a museum dedicated to showing the glories of the past is now a battlefield, with a massive courtyard at the heart of its contested ground.

    Transit: A Moscow metro station makes for close quarters and close-range combat. Trains pulling into and out of the station add to the danger as Ghosts and Bodark slug it out underground.

    The Guerilla mode map is called Village and takes place in a peaceful country village, suddenly caught up in the maelstrom of war. 

    Finally, we have 'Takeover', the brand new multiplayer game mode. In Takeover, players face off in a classic team deathmatch style game mode...with a twist. Both teams have objectives to defend/attack in addition to the straight forward battle to be the first side to reach the set amount of kills first. Controlling the objective earns your team a bonus score multiplier.

    Ghost Recon: Future Soldier's Khyber Strike DLC will be available on October 10th for 800MSP/$9.99.

  • Exclusive Ghost Recon Online Interview With Creative Director Theo Sanders

    Earlier this month, we had the chance to sit down and chat with Theo Sanders, the Creative Director at Ubisoft Singapore working on Ghost Recon Online. 

    The team just released the Arctic Pack, a huge content update for Ghost Recon Online that introduced a wealth of new content including an array of new weapons, a brand new multiplayer map and a ton of body armor and headgear variants for players to outfit their character with.

    Arctic Pack has been a lot of fun and we're really enjoying the new map, Tomsk-9. Check out our interview with Theo Sanders below!

    For readers who might be unfamiliar with you, Theo, can you tell us who you are and what your role is on Ghost Recon Online?

    Hi everyone. I’m Theo Sanders, the lead producer for Ghost Recon Online at Ubisoft Singapore. My main role is to ensure we deliver a great player experience across our game development, service, and technology teams.

    So, Ubisoft just released the first content expansion for Ghost Recon Online. What was the development process like on this content update?

    The Arctic Pack was a challenge for us because we really wanted to provide the community with some cool new content within a month of launching Open Beta. There was a lot of work put into Tomsk-9 and the new arctic skins.  On top of that, we shipped hundreds of incremental improvements to the game in the form of balance tweaks and bug fixes. Building all that content and analyzing the feedback from Open Beta for the fixes led to some very late nights in the studio for the team.

    Is it difficult releasing new content, ensuring that the weapons and items are new and fun but also balanced properly with Ghost Recon Online’s hefty arsenal?

    Balancing weapons is tricky. We rely on a combination of data analysis and a lot of observation about how players actually use different weapon classes. Weapons also tend to be the most “emotional” of the game systems. When you’ve just been killed a few times in a row by a particular gun, many players draw a quick conclusion that it’s overpowered. So we have to interpret that feedback through the numbers.

    Keep reading for the rest of our interview with Theo!

  • Ubisoft Releasing Major Content Update for Ghost Recon Online Tomorrow, September 12th


    Ubisoft Singapore recently announced that they are going to be releasing the first major content update for Ghost Recon Online tomorrow, September 12th.

    The content update, Arctic Pack, brings a ton of great new content to the free-to-play shooter, including:

    • Tomsk-9 map
    • 6 Arctic Camouflaged Weapon Variants
      • L86A1 IW ALP Light Machine Gun
      • MK 16 CQC ALP Assault Rifle
      • P90 SD ALP Sub-Machine Gun
      • M-200 SD ALP Sniper Rifle
      • NC2000 C ALP Shotgun
      • USP 45 ALP Pistol
    • 3 Arctic Camouflaged Headgear Variants
      • OCF-FL2 Helmet ALP (for the Assault class)
      • ECW-G5 RS Hood ALP (for the Recon  class)
      • CBRN-L4 Headgear ALP (for the Specialist  class)
    • 2 Arctic Camouflaged Body Armor Variants
      • HERMES S-03 Mk. II ALP
      • TITAN S-03 MK. II ALP

    Check out the launch trailer for Ghost Recon Online's Arctic Pack above and take a look at some screenshots and equipment renders from the content update after the break!

  • Ghost Recon Online 'On Hold' For Wii U, Future Looking Grim

    Ubisoft has announced that the Wii U version of their free to play shooter, Ghost Recon Online, is on hold. Indefinitely.

    Speaking to VideoGamer.com, Ghost Recon Online Producer Theo Sanders announced that production on the Wii U version of the Ghost Recon Online was making it impossible for the team to focus their full attention on the already released PC version of the game.

    Theo Sanders

    As of right now, the entire Ghost Recon team is focused on the PC version only. The Wii U version is on hold. If in the future we have an opportunity to address it again, we'll make future announcements. But as of right now we're focused completely on the PC version.

    While it is not impossible to see a future in which Ghost Recon Online launches on the Wii U, we're about as confident as Ubisoft. Which is to say, not at all confident.

    "It's hard to say how the future will go for Ghost Recon Online," said Sanders "I think in the future as different platforms evolve towards service models and towards being really online-driven, community-driven platforms, then we'll definitely be looking at what our options are."

    Source: VideoGamer

  • Ubisoft Goes Behind The Scenes on Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Raven Strike DLC


    Last month, Ubisoft revealed that the next DLC offering for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier would be called Raven Strike. Well, now we're getting our first good look at the content in a behind the scenes video released moments ago.

    In this episode of Inside Recon, Community Developer Zack Cooper gives us a great overview of what to expect in Raven Strike. The DLC is mainly geared towards singleplayer, and expands the campaign significantly. All told, there are three brand new missions in Raven Strike, including:

    • Secure Dawn
    • Cold Walker
    • Argent Thunder

    What's more, all of these missions will be playable cooperatively with up to four other players. Raven Strike concludes with a brand new Guerilla Mode map, which we believe will be previewed in a later episode of Inside Recon.

    Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Raven Strike DLC deploys on September 11th on Xbox Live and the 12th on PlayStation Network.

  • Play Through Splinter Cell: Blacklist's E3 Demo as a Ghost


    The beauty of Splinter Cell is that you, as a player, dictate how the mission will progress in regards to how stealthy or how loud you want to go. Sure, the game is designed to encourage a stealthy play style but it's not a requisite. If you want to rush your enemies, weapons blazing, you can do so.

    In the video above, Community Developer Zack Cooper takes us through the E3 demo of Splinter Cell: Blacklist one more time, this time playing as a Ghost. Favoring stealth above all else. Just how does a Ghost take his enemies down without causing a scene?

    Check out the video above to find out and drop by http://splintercell.ubi.com/ for more information on Splniter Cell: Blacklist.

  • Raven Strike DLC Coming to Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

    Ubisoft has announced some brand new Ghost Recon: Future Soldier DLC, entitled Raven Strike. The DLC will be going live on September 11th, 2012 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on September 12th. No word yet on a PC release date.

    Raven Strike includes:

    3 new missions in Campaign Mode

    • Secure Dawn: a foggy marsh in Kazakhstan where the Ghosts will not be allowed access to advanced technology (no optical camouflage, drone or sensor grenade)
    • Cold Walker: a train depot on the Russian countryside
    • Argent Thunder: a nighttime urban setting in Moscow

    1 new map in Guerrilla Mode 

    • Sawmill: face 50 waves of enemies on a foggy Russian countryside

    Additionally, the team at Ubisoft has announced that they are working hard on even more DLC for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, guaranteeing more content for the recently released third-person shooter.

    For more information, drop by http://ghost-recon.ubi.com/!

  • Vote For Your Favorite 4th Echelon Logo in Splinter Cell: Blacklist

    Ubisoft Montreal is teaming up with Gamespot to offer fans of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell franchise a chance to choose the logo for the Fourth Echelon, the elite group of operators led by Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

    The art team at Ubisoft Montreal has put together around 10 different designs to choose from but the power is in our hands, the fans of Splinter Cell. In the video above, Community Developer Zack Cooper and Creative Director Maxime Beland discuss the decision to let fans choose the Fourth Echelon logo.

    The logos should be available for voting later today, so choose wisely! This will be representing Sam Fisher, after all, so only the best!

  • Splinter Cell: Blacklist In-Depth Walkthrough From Gamescom

    Ubisoft was on hand at Gamescom this week, showing off Splinter Cell: Blacklist among other great titles. Taking us through an in-depth, 10-minute walkthrough of a mission in Splinter Cell: Blacklist is Creative Director, Maxime Beland of Ubisoft Montreal.

    In Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Sam Fisher is back once again, directly following the events of Splinter Cell: Conviction. Without offering too many spoilers, Sam did not expect himself to be brought back into the fray. As a result, he has made some demands in exchange for his services. Fourth Echelon, the elite group that he is leading, will be his team, his rules and he answers only to the President of the Unites States directly. Only Sam Fisher could make those demands and have them fulfilled.

    The walkthrough is a must-see for fans of the Splinter Cell franchise, regardless of how you feel about Sam's new voice. Check it out above!

     

  • Celebrate The Launch of Ghost Recon Online With a New Trailer

    Ghost Recon Online (GRO) has officially launched, after a successful period of beta testing. The game, which brings Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon franchise to the world of free to play gaming, is available exclusively on PC.

    Ghost Recon Online blends classic tactical shooter gameplay with a modern free to play business model. In our eyes, GRO is a perfect free to play experience.

    Downloading Ghost Recon Online and getting started will not cost you a dime. Should you choose to customize your kit in various ways, you have option to do so via microtransactions, but it is not required in any way. Something we've noticed that we love is that Ghost Recon Online is free to play, not 'pay to win'. Plunking down your cash will get you more great options for customization but it's not going to guarantee you instant victories.

    Check out the trailer above and visit http://www.ubi.com/ for more on Ghost Recon: Online!

  • Splinter Cell: Blacklist Community Developer Q&A #2

    Last month, Ubisoft Toronto released the first ComDev Q&A - short for Community Developer - in which they answered some of the most pertinent questions from the Splinter Cell fanbase, surrounding Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

    Today, the team released the second ComDev Q&A for our viewing enjoyment. The Q&A once again features Community Developer Zack Cooper, discussing various aspects of Splinter Cell: Blacklist, the next chapter in Sam Fisher's busy life. This time around, Cooper has a chance to chat with Maxime Beland, Creative Director on Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Max discusses his personal take on what a Ghost should be in Splinter Cell: Blacklist, how that stealth factor should play out and what he should hope to accomplish.

    The second ComDev Q&A can be viewed above and it's a must-watch for fans of Splinter Cell. The game is due out in the ever-growing Spring season of 2013.

  • Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Title Update 1.4 Coming August 13th, Exclusive Content

    Ubisoft has detailed the changes coming to Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on PC next month, in Title Update 1.4, including some exclusive new content for the game.

    Title Update 1.4 will be deploying August 13th, and includes the following changes:

    • Compatibility, performance, stability, graphics improvements and more - taking your feedback directly into account;
    • Improved FPS on all configurations;
    • Fixes for several stability issues during map loading;
    • God-Rays no longer disappear;
    • Fixed some localization issues;
    • Fixed some issues causing the display of hint icons from X360 controller when disconnected.
    In addition to those bug fixes and performance enhancements, the update includes some exclusive content that comes in the form of two weapon skins exclusive to PC players. In the future, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on PC will be getting a hardcore mode for campaign and night versions of two Adversarial Mode maps.
     
    In the next few days, Ubisoft will be releasing the original soundtrack to Ghost Recon: Future Soldier as well as some artwork and desktop wallpapers. This content will be free until August 13th, so make sure you stay tuned to get those quickly when they become available!

  • Splinter Cell: Blacklist Community Developer Q&A

    Ubisoft Toronto Communitiy Developer, Zach Cooper, has answered some of our questions on their upcoming third-person shooter, Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

    The video discusses non-lethal combat, the in-game economy system and map variety. In regards to the economy system, your first thought might be microtransactions in the game, but that isn't what Ubisoft is referring to at all. As you'll see in the video, the economy system refers to the way that the game rewards you for doing certain objectives. For example, if you take an enemy out completely stealthily - meaning nobody sees you do it, the game is going to reward you for your efforts. Likely those rewards will play out for things like weapon upgrades and perhaps equipment as in previous Splinter Cell titles.

    The video is embedded above, so just click play and enjoy! Splinter Cell: Blacklist will be launching in the Spring of 2013.

  • Arctic Recon DLC Now Available in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

    Players enjoying the latest Tom Clancy game, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, will be happy to learn that the Arctic Strike DLC is now available on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

    Starting yesterday, players can pick up the Arctic Strike DLC for 800MSP/$9.99. There is actually a lot of content for a relatively low price tag, extending thie Ghost Recon: Future Soldier multiplayer experience by quite a bit. The Arctic Strike DLC includes:

    • 3 new multiplayer maps.
    • 1 new Guerilla mode map.
    • Brand new game mode; Stockade.
    • Six new weapons:
      •  Rifleman: F2000 and CZS805
      • Scout: Type 05 JS and BT MP9
      • Engineer: OCP-11 and Mk17
    • New achievements/trophies.
    • Level cap increase of 10 levels.
    Visit your preferred platforms digital store to pick up Arctic Strike and let us know what you think!

  • Splinter Cell: Blacklist Pop-Up Trailer Introduces 4th Echelon

    Ubisoft has released a brand new trailer for Splinter Cell: Blacklist, which introduces some of the team members that Sam Fisher will be working with as a part of 4th Echelon.

    The trailer, dubbed the Pop-Up Trailer due to the tidbits that pop up periodically throughout the trailer giving useful information from the game. This is probably one of the most informational trailers we've seen released for a while, as we learn about 4th Echelon members, equipment, systems and so much more from the windows that pop up. Splinter Cell: Blacklist once again follow Sam Fisher, although he's got a new voice this time around, and we can't wait to experience the new game mechanics and some old, familiar systems.

    Check out the trailer above and let us know if you're excited for Splinter Cell: Blacklist in the comments below.