Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon soldiers have faced a number of challenges over the years. But can they handle the micro-transaction?

Ghost Recon Online is a free-to-play, online-only PC shooter from Ubisoft Singapore. Sustaining the free play will be the sale of premium in-game items. According to Ghost Recon Online Creative Director Theo Sanders, the playing field will be balanced, even if you haven’t purchased premium items. That’s the method that has made Facebook gaming such a staple

Sam Fisher is a hardened type that won’t hesitate to snap some guy’s neck if Third Echelon business calls for it. I’ll bet even he would smile a little at the prospect of picking up Xbox 360′sSplinter Cell: Conviction for only $19.99.

The one good thing to come out of major publishers beginning to have their own stores attached to their websites is the fact that it adds to the list of places to scout for deals.

For a limited time, UBIShop — it really is named this, I swear; I couldn’t make this stuff up — has everyone’s favorite spy on sale for the low, low price of $34.99. How limited, you might ask? Unconfirmed. The amount of time that this sale will be going on has yet to be revealed. If you didn’t purchase at launch and have been waiting to pick up this gem, $35 is an absolute steal and hard to pass on so my own personal feelings on the matter is that it won’t be around very long.

In a conference call held by Ubisoft today (May 18, 2010) the company decided to delay the release of Future Soldier until 2011. An exact date was not revealed, but we can expect it to be available before April 2010.

Tom Clancy tends to put his name to solid gold military and spy fiction. So the question is whether or not the novel Hawx stands up to the fine traditions that both Tom Clancy and David Michaels have set down. Let’s see where it goes right and horribly wrong.

Preempting the release of the fifth console game in the franchise, the first of two Splinter Cell books are intended to tide over fans until the next game is released. The question is whether or not the first book, Splinter Cell: Conviction, puts fans of the franchise at ease by demonstrating that something is getting done with the upcoming game by the same name.

Splinter Cell was a franchise that had a lot going against it. It was in a genre that had to compete with James Bond games, Metal Gear games and multiple knock off attempts at being either without committing copyright infringement. At its start, it just seemed like its saving grace was that it was a Tom Clancy game.

As we’ve learned time and time again, Clancy has a bit of a Midas touch with all things espionage, counter-terrorism or military-based. He makes gold with these genres. Soon the fifth installment of the Splinter Cell franchise will be released, Splinter Cell: Conviction in 2010 for Xbox 360 and Windows. To tide over the eagerly awaiting fans, earlier this month a novel version of Conviction was released. This is the fifth novel to be released for the franchise. However, that’s not all that’s happening.

This week’s PlayStation Store highlights include two PlayStation 1 classics, Ford Racing and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six , each for $5.99. There is also the new movie Paul Blart Mall Cop staring Kevin James as a mall security officer who takes his job way too seriously (rated PG).

Another movie to hit the PlayStation store is Valkyrie staring Tom Cruise, a film based on true events about senior Nazi officials attempt to assassinate Hitler and end the war, this film is rated PG-13 and both are available now in SD (standard definition) format for $14.99.

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…

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…