One of Nintendo's launch titles for its new 3DS handheld device is to be Ghost Recon : Lead the Ghosts. In a departure for the Ghost Recon series, Lead the Ghosts will be a turn based game, developed by Julian Gollop of X-Com fame.

If you have not already checked the 3DS out, click through to the videos section on the official site to see some interesting hands on audience reactions. Discuss in our Handheld forums here.

Red Storm Entertainment are famed, amongst other things, for releasing the original, classic, award winning Ghost Recon, before they were purchased by Ubisoft. Prior to that they stunned the gaming community with the tactically unrivalled Rainbow Six. Discuss this sad news in our forums here.

We've also been recieving mail on the same subject...

Of course many shooters have drawn critiscm in the past about their scenarios, and Ghost Recon is no different with both Ghost Recon 2 and GRAW2 being banned in certain corners of the world.

Read the full quotations and post your own thoughts in our Ghost Recon Predator forum.

It's interesting that Ubisoft have decided to drop the Future Soldier part from the title of the game, calling it simply Ghost Recon, when there are some Future Soldier features to be seen in the movie.

What does look fun is the two player on screen gametype, check it out. Discuss here.

The trailer is actually quite impressive. check it out.

This is hot off the press, official confirmation straight from Ubisoft - Ghost Recon for the Wii and PSP, due out Fall 2010.

The Wii version (called simply "Ghost Recon") features a two man Ghost team take on 12 missions in locations such as Norway and Moscow.

The Wii version features two player third person co-op mode, with hot swapping supported - so your mate can jump into your misson anytime. Expect to see Ghost Recon hit the Wii in November this year. Discuss Wii Ghost Recon in our forums.

The PSP version is titled Ghost Recon Predator, and takes place in the jungles of Sri Lanka.

Featuring multiplayer co-op, Predator also boasts an "exclusive tactical experience". Ghost Recon Predator for the PSP hits the shelves at the end of September. PSP version discussions here.

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About 20 seconds into this HAWX2 trailer we can hear the Ghosts being called in for an extraction.

Ubisoft have decided to keep Future Soldier under wraps and concentrate on showing off ten playable versions of top titles such as HAWX 2, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Driver. Read the full list and more details in our forums here.

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The four minute interview with Stuart White covers camo balancing, weapons, drones, and more! Comments in our forums here. 

What does that mean? Apparantly the two targets here are in fact SecuROM and SafeDisc and their potential for compromising security of gamers computers.

Read more detail on Ars Technica, where there's bigger news on the implications for Apple thanks to exemption number 2.

In related news, a recent court case ruled that DMCA anti-circumvention protection does not apply where a link between 'access' and 'protection' of the copyrighted work cannot be proven. More on that at Courthouse News.

The live action Ghost Recon Future Soldier short movie was officially announced this weekend at Comic-Con 2010. Ubi Kimi was there with a couple of bodyguards to promo the movie to all Comic-Con fans.

Titled Ghost Recon Alpha, the movie is to be released next year and as previously mentioned is being directed by Francois Alaux. 

While only one minute of unfinished footage was shown at Comic-Con, the final version is expected to be around 20 minutes in length.

More details soon....

Their sales report (which you can download here), details this 94% increase over last years figures, and looks forward to two big releases next quarter with RUSE and HAWX2.

This week Lockheed Martin announced that their real world exoskeleton (HULC) is nearing the live testing phase. The 8 week testing will put a new more rugged version of their HULC technology through extensive field exercises in preparation for full production.

Ghost Recon Predator was first spotted last year as a mystery trademark registered in Australia. Accoridng to this ESRB entry though, the Predator title is specifically for the PSP. Discuss in our handheld Ghost Recon forum.

The only problem for Ghost Recon fans is, we're describing a different Ubisoft game, the upcoming Real Time Strategy game RUSE. The two gentlemen shown above are Alexis Dressay and Mathieu Girard. If you click that image, it'll take you to a twenty minute YouTube video split into several chapters. In each chapter there is repeated reference to fan forums and community requests showing the dev teams commitment to making the game something that the fans have played a part in shaping.

After the first beta, the game was delayed while fan feedback was fully digested by the dev team. Now they've come back with a new version of RUSE packed with fan suggested features, and to top it off, there's a chance to play the new pre-release multiplayer version free this weekend over Steam.

Visit the official RUSE website, and post feedback in our RTS forums.

So for more on optical camo counter measures and the Future Soldier game engine, watch this video at Gamepot! Forum discussion already underway here.

Watch it here.

The slight difference with this interview, is that they put the Future Soldier writer under pressure to give an exclusive piece of new information. Hang tight right to the end to see if they managed! As always, dicsussion in our Future Soldier forums.

Check them both out in our forums here.

Gabrielle Shrager lets loose with plenty of information, including 6 on 6 adversarial and other details. The last portion of the video is a live fan question and answer session. Check it out here.

This clip actually has convoy footage that none of the other E3 movies contained.

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Watch it on Youtube, where the real use for that can opener is finally revealed, then comment in our fourms.

Fans playing his latest map "Los Mochis" will find that the difficulty level changes on the fly depending on how many players are in the server. So if you are playing on your own, the difficulty is toned down, with less enemies, but if you are playing with a co-op team, the number of enemies will automatically increase. Not only that, there's a switch in the game that players can use to override the setting if they wish!

Download this brand new custom map for GRAW 2 here.

Gabrielle joined Ubisoft in 2006 to work on Beowulf, and since then has contributed to various aspects of developing game stories.

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Watch the five minute interview on Youtube, comment in our forums here.