Finally Ubisoft announces 'Splinter Cell: Conviction' release date after months and months and months of uncertainty.Better yet Ubisoft also included a trailer at Tokyo Game Show too.
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411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Persona, Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier, and Velvet Assassin.
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22/01/2008

Phil Elliott of GamesIndustry.biz writes:

"An in-game advertising campaign run by Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) last year in two Tom Clancy videogames prompted a 500 per cent increase in activity on the related recruitment web site, it has been revealed.

The campaign, which featured billboards advertising careers at GCHQ in Ubisoft titles Splinter Cell: Double Agent and Rainbow Six: Vegas, ran for a month and was managed by TMP Worldwide, according to a report in Recruiter.

Kate Clemens, head of GCHQ's digital strategy at TMP, stated that she felt the campaign had been successful as a general profile-raising exercise, with traffic increasing from around 500-600 people per day visiting the "Careers in British Intelligence" site to between 4000 and 7000."
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Times and The Guardian report on October 18, 2007:

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the surveillance arm of British intelligence services, will this month embed advertisements into popular video games such as "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent" to attract young recruits who are "computer-savvy, technologically-able, quick-thinking." The advertisements will appear as billboards and be fed into games being played on personal computers and Xbox 360 that are connected to the Internet.
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The additional content from the PS3 version of Splinter Cell: Double Agent is now available to Xbox 360 owners on XBL Marketplace. Two new multiplayer maps (Kinshasa and Secret base), four new challenges on those maps and a brand new character, the Spy Girl, plus three outfits are up for download at no extra cost. Or alternatively you could just go back and play Chaos Theory, where the multiplayer mode hasn't been toned down for stealthless monkeys (meow). The next Xbox 360 exclusive ... » Read More

Quite a well populated list. There's no real way anyone can complain about this week's releases. Unless you're a European The Darknees fan. Don't forget, though. If there's a game that's only available in another region, then feel free to import it. Your PlayStation 3 won't care. Release dates are subject to constant change, so give your local game shop a ring before walking down there.
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It seems like Ubisoft is aiming to start the year with a bang as they release an updated list of their Q1 games. Blazing Angels: Secret Missions (still stamped with the tentative release in Spring) and Driver: Parallel Lines are just two of the highly anticipated games to be released.

Here's the list:

Asphalt 2 (PSP)
Blazing Angels (Wii)
Blazing Angels: Secret Missions (PC, Xbox 360)
Dogz 2 (GBA)
Driver: Parallel Lines (PC, Wii)
Driver 76 (PSP)
Enchanted Arms (PS3)
IL-2 1946 (PC)
Mind Quiz (DS)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 (PC, Xbox 360, PSP)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PC, PS2, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP, DS, GC, GBA)
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords (Wii, PSP)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (PS3, PSP)
Resident Evil 4 (PC)
Rocky Balboa (PSP)
Silent Hunter 4 (PC)
The Settlers 2: 10th Anniversary (DS)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (PS3)

Well, there you have it folks. It looks like we all have reasons to celebrate as Ubisoft spreads the love.
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Splinter Cell Double Agent will use PS3's tilt-sensitive controller features and will offer online multiplayer that matches Xbox Live quality, Ubisoft has confirmed. It will also come with two new multiplayer maps, fresh co-op challenges and the svelte femme fatale spy character we discovered a few weeks ago. And these first PS3 shots show the female character in action. In single-player, Double Agent brings SixAxis gesture technology to many of Sam's tasks - picking locks, hacking security ... » Read More

A new playable female spy will form part of the exclusive content for the PS3 version of Splinter Cell Double Agent. The sleek, streamlined character, complete with rubber fetish-style body suit was revealed in the February edition of GamesRadar's sister magazine, PSM. "When we started working on the PS3-specific content, the spy-girl was on the top of the list," Stephane Baudet, Studio Director at UbiSoft Annecy told PSM. "We really liked the idea because it really embraces the fact that the ... » Read More

On the noiseless heels of the four-console release of Splinter Cell: Double Agent Ubisoft has announced that they'll be sending Sam Fisher onto the only console yet to feature his exhilarating stealth antics and green-glowing dome. The Xbox 360 version of Double Agent was an awesome new realization of the Splinter Cell series, and there's no reason to doubt the PS3 version will bring the same excellence to bear. In fact, there may be reason to believe that Double Agent will reach new heights ... » Read More