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Ubisoft have announced the release of the Escalation Pack Downloadable Content (DLC) for Tom Clancy's EndWar available for the Xbox360 and the PLAYSTATION3 today.
The Escalation Pack will be released tomorrow for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The pack adds new missions and unit updates. The 360 version will also receive a patch that will add a new four vs. four mode. This patch won't hit PS3 until early next year.
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Ubisoft has announced that they're working on DLC for Endwar which will allow players to play 4v4 in multiplayer.
Today Ubisoft announces that Tom Clancy's EndWar, the newest brand in the Tom Clancy series of video games, is now available in stores across North America. Tom Clancy's EndWar goes beyond other war games by allowing players to use their own voice to control units, offering command of the action at the speed of thought. Available for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, Tom Clancy's EndWar is the first brand-new Tom Clancy franchise since Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell was introduced in 2001.
As you know, if you have visited PS3Evolved or listen to The Evolved Gaming Podcast lately, that I am and have been excited about the release of Tom Clancy's EndWar from Ubisoft. You may also know that today, November 5th, 2008, was the release date for Tom Clancy's EndWar. After a couple phone calls I was able to track down a copy and picked it up on the way home from work. Expect a review to come this weekend, but right now I want to let my fellow PS3 owners know about some "Exclusive Content" available to them that I did not know about and still know little about. I do know that a 4 vs 4 mode is planned as future DLC and that more maps and units are also going to be available in the future, but this was a welcome surprise!
Ubisoft has developed a limited edition headset bundle. Gamers can now get a copy of EndWar along with the official Sony Bluetooth wireless headset or Xbox 360 Wireless headset for $89.99.
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Kicking off the countdown to the game's release, Ubisoft announced today that a playable demo of Tom Clancy's EndWar(TM) for the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system is now available to consumers. The demo is free and offered for download on the PLAYSTATION Network.
Tom Clancy's EndWar's going into shops day and date with Gears of War 2 on November 7, but Ubisoft Shanghai director Michael de Plater isn't worried. The voice-comm strategy game is likely to be a slow burn, he told VG247.
Blizzard would never simply port StarCraft to console. If it decided to move to under-TV machines with the franchise, the game would end up looking more like Tom Clancy's EndWar than its PC counterpart, Ubi Shanghai director Michael de Plater's told VG247.
PopSci.com.au writes: "Games are beginning to exploit the computational muscle of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 to generate characters and environments that follow the rules of reality, not just preset sequences. Developers have finally figured out how to write software that takes better advantage of the multiple processing cores in the Cell chip that runs the PS3 and the Xenon CPU that powers the Xbox 360. By performing several tasks at once, the chips can execute billions more instructions per second than their predecessors."
With the Tom Clancy series expanding to five titles this year with the releases of Hawx and Endwar, Ubisoft has said that it is looking into the possibility of creating a "Megagame" within the franchise in order to potentially interweave storylines between each major series.
"Yesterday HDR, and several other outlets, reported the new Tom Clancy's EndWar demo launched yesterday would only be available on Xbox 360. As it turns out that is not entirely accurate."
Tom Clancy's EndWar's voice-controlled antics took their cue from the "natural" input methods of Guitar Hero and Wii, Ubisoft Shanghai boss Michael de Plater has told VG247.
The demo is out on X360, but DailyGame has distinct confirmation from Ubisoft that the PS3 will not be getting a demo: "The demo, exclusively available for Xbox 360, is free and offered for download on Xbox Live Marketplace for Xbox 360." Doesn't get more clear than that.
Ubisoft shows off their upcoming games to the Australia press!
Ubisoft Shanghai creative director Michael de Plater has told VG247 that his team's take on RTS with EndWar follows a path BioWare forged with Knights of the Old Republic and the RPG genre, in that his franchise will lead on console before making its way to PC.