Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online Message Board

The hamsters of Ubisoft Singapore’s employees must have the most luxurious cages of all the rodents. I imagine their owners coming home with a pile of Tom Clancy books and world bibles and tossing them at the paper-loving cricetinaes, saying: “we don’t need these anymore”. Ghost Recon Online looks like a fun free-to-play shooter, but realism is not its focus, as is evident in the trailer below.(more…)

Oh dear. The context in which I find myself writing about Ghost Recon Online is very different to the context in which I played it. It was all sunshine and daisies and shotgun shells then, but now it’s blood and mud and he said she said and everyone knows best and everyone else knows nothing. What I’m not going to do, though, is discuss the controversial comments made about completely different Ghost Recon game and one man’s troubling take on the state of PC gaming, so I’d be grateful if you could keep arguments about Future Soldier to the thread about Future Soldier. I’m talking about Ghost Recon Online, a game specifically made for PC and PC only, and one mercifully sidesteps piracy and DRM arguments due to being an inherently online game with persistent player ranks and whatnot.

Here’s the thing about GRO: it’s a free to play, mulitplayer-only shooter. And it’s pretty good. That doesn’t have to be an oxymoron after all.(more…)

Nintendo held back publishers from showing some in-development Wii U games during E3, according to a report issued by Hit Detection, the game consulting firm founded by former Newsweek journalist N'Gai Croal.

The only third-party Wii U game playable at E3 was Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Online. Ubisoft also showed Killer Freaks from Outer Space, and there was a highlight reel showing during Nintendo's press conference, later revealed to have been games running on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 hardware.

"Developers have underclocked development kits, and worked hard to deliver titles running on that hardware to demonstrate live at E3," reads the report. "However, due to titles not looking much better than what is currently available on Xbox 360 and the PS3, Nintendo decided late in the game to not show those titles and focus instead on tech demos."

Ghost Recon Online was the only "game" shown for Wii U. Everything Nintendo was declared experimental, albeit with the caveat that some or all could actually turn into proper games.

It's unclear whether Nintendo's alleged decision to hold back games that wouldn't show better than existing releases suggests Wii U is, in fact, may be more powerful than both. Nintendo hasn't released proper specifications for Wii U, as has been standard operating procedure for the company for years, instead focusing on what's possible, not the literal guts inside the box.