Tom Clancy is a man who can pride himself on spinning a taut tale of political intrigue from real-world international tensions. With Rainbow Six he brought his incredibly accurate, technically correct style for writing about military, paramilitary and espionage groups to video games.

Reversing that trend, books based on various Tom Clancy video games have been published since 2004. Ghost Recon is now following the trend that was set by Splinter Cell and Endwar with the currently available novel titled Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon ($9.99, Berkley Publishing) . David Michaels, the author who brought Splinter Cell and Endwar from games to books, has just put out the first of what may be many Ghost Recon novels.

First thing we have to address is that David Michaels is a pseudonym for…

And the sales have begun. In this week’s Kmart print ad, the chain is promoting “Black Friday Price Available Now!” with at least one item. At the top of the game page (page 2) is Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for PS2 for $44.99 (regular price is $89.99, limited quantities and no rain checks).

The other deals include $39.99 ($20 reduction) for Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Army for PS3 and $10 off when you purchase both WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 for PS3 ($59.99) along with Viva La Raza: The Legacy of Eddie Guerrero on DVD ($29.99).

Sale prices are good in-store from…

Tom Clancy’s Endwar is one of the most unique real time strategy games coming out this year. It incorporates voice technology that allows us to control the game like a general looking at multiple screens at once. A demo was recently released on Xbox Live and lets us participate in an online match or an offline skirmish.

Endwar is also coming out for the Playstation 3 on November 7, 2008, but the fun doesn’t stop there. Ubisoft has confirmed that Endwar will also be coming out on the DS and PSP consoles in time for the holiday season.

The handheld versions will not implement the voice control interface the consoles version have. Instead, it will…

The Tom Clancy series of videogames will foray into the real-time strategy genre later this year with the release of Tom Clancy’s EndWar for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and the Nintendo DS on November 4 in North America and November 7 in Europe.

According to Major Nelson (a.k.a. Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry Hryb), a free demo of the Xbox 360 version of the game is now available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. It features samples from both the single-player and multiplayer segments of the game…

In May 2008, Crytek announced that it will be abandoning PC exclusivity due to problems with pirated copies of Crysis. Now, Ubisoft Shanghai creative director Michael de Plater revealed to Videogaming247 reasons why the copany won’t bring the anticipated EndWar to the PC.

Ubisoft has been having such big problems with piracy of Assassin’s Creed that they sued the disc’s manufacturers, Optical Experts Manufacturing. This is because the PC-version was leaked to the public two months before the…

A month after Ubisoft announced it had acquired the rights to the entire Tom Clancy universe, Ubisoft debuted a new independent Clancy game. Surprisingly, it isn’t a tactical shooter. It’s a flight simulator.

Titled Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X, (apparently thinking it is still cool to misspell words with an “X”) Ubisoft is hoping to take a chunk out of Namco’s popular flight simulation game, the Ace Combat Series. H.A.W.X will still be set in the Tom Clancy universe and will feature a number of notable characters from previous Clancy games including the Captain Mitchell and…