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Microsoft has announced that it is dropping the recommended retail price of its Xbox 360 Classics range of games to £14.99.

The budget range features re-releases of high-selling 360 games, and today adds Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV and Midnight Club: Los Angeles, as well as Take-Two's BioShock to the portfolio.

Ubisoft has also added four titles to the series – Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Naruto: Rise of the Ninja, Splinter Cell Double Agent and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2.
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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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Another week another 2 games for you to spend your hard earnd money on.

This week we have Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter & Splinter Cell Double Agent added to the mix so if your a fan of both of those games and want to play them again well now's your chance to get them straight to your HDD, I dont suppose I need to tell you the price do I? £20 for those new to the on-demand service.

So clear up some HDD space and get spending or just go to your closest game store and buy them for a cheaper price.
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Console Monster writes: "A new month has arrived along with two new Tom Clancy titles on the Games on Demand service and an array of Rock Band tracks. Here is the full Xbox Live Marketplace update for Tuesday 1st September 2009:

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Price: £19.99
Size: 5 GB
Download the manual for this game by locating the game on http://marketplace.xbox.com and selecting "See Game Manual". The face of war has changed. New enemies and new threats require a new type of warfare - a new type of soldier. Enter the Ghosts. Become the soldier of the future: Using a fully integrated combat system with cutting-edge weapons and revolutionary communication systems, gain a realistic view of how war will be fought in the next decade. Customizable multiplayer experience and Unique Online Co-op Campaign: Create your own identity, create your own gametypes, and take the battle online with up to 16 players. Then, play a brand new campaign created exclusively for online coop play There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts..."
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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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VG247: Ubisoft has refused to comment on a story this morning that claimed Splinter Cell Conviction had been put on hold.

"There is no official comment on this story, which is based on a purely speculative news piece," said a spokesperson.
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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

Splinter Cell: Double Agent on PS3's "exclusive" spy girl multiplayer character will be released for download for the Xbox 360 version of the game. It was thought that the character was unique to Double Agent on PS3 when producer Mathieu Hector recently spoke about the latest version's multiplayer featuring "an additional new spy character (a spy girl)," but Ubisoft's said that isn't the case. "...The female skins will not be PS3 exclusive, anyone who said/wrote so was confused by the fact ... » Read More

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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DemonWare revealed today that Ubisoft is tapping their multiplayer network for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent. The network software company will power the online features for the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game. Splinter Cell Double Agent is out now for 360 and will release on PC on October 26.
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We got word late last night from our covert operatives embedded deep with Ubisoft that a Splinter Cell Double Agent Collector's Edition is in the works for Xbox 360. If you click the Movies tab above, you'll get the briefest of samples of what kind of bonus content you can expect from the Limited Collector's ... » Read More

Ubisoft today announces the limited availability of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent Collector's Edition for the Xbox 360. Available only while supplies last, the Limited Collector's Edition is available for pre-order at a suggested retail price $69.99.
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Ubisoft Paris has unveiled the latest signature sound for their Splinter Cell franchise: the distinctive orchestra/electronica-hybrid style of veteran game composers Sascha Dikiciyan and Cris Velasco will be used for the official main theme for "Splinter Cell 4: Double Agent." The two also scored all of the cinematics for the game.
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As the latest Sam Fisher adventure sneaks towards its September release, Ubisoft thought it would share a few more visuals of Splinter Cell: Double Agent. Double Agent is, of course, the game where Sam Fisher goes bad, but only because he's trying to do good. He's infiltrating a terrorist group in order to take them down from within, but to earn their trust he has to behave like a criminal. The game will feature all the high tech gadgetry and stealth aspects from previous games, but you'll be ... » Read More

Ubisoft lobbed a batch of new Splinter Cell Double Agent screens at us, so we've collected them together and put 'em up on the site for you to check out. In addition to the fresh shots, there's also a website you can now visit at www.splintercell.com that includes the usual load-out of game info, trailers and wallpaper for your computer. The eight new screens we've got highlight some of the exploits we got to see Sam participate in first-hand at E3. There are a couple scenes of the freezing ... » Read More

Sam Fisher has snapped necks and snuck to the top of the charts time and time again. But his newest mission is also his darkest and most mysterious. If you want to see the evolution of Splinter Cell, you've got to check out the latest trailer, fresh from the show floor. Click the "movies" tab above and get ready for a whole new experience of stealth ... » Read More

When the first images of Splinter Cell: Double Agent surfaced, showing series hero and superspy Sam Fisher shaved bald and rocking a fashionable prison-orange jumpsuit, fans' brains reeled. Could Sam, the ultimate patriot, have snapped and become a bad guy? Well, sort of, yeah. But only for a really good cause. Sam has gone deeply undercover, infiltrating an organization so secretive that in order to gain their trust, he has to do the same evil deeds as the enemy. This is the kind of ... » Read More