Ubisoft's latest Title Update for Ghost Recon future Soldier has been released featuring Windows XP compatbility and Direct X9 support.

Amongst the improvements are ...

• Support for Windows XP.
• Support for DirectX 9 on Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Improved performance of Volumetric Lighting and Global Illumination.
• New graphical real-time rendering of all reflective surfaces
• Improved framerate performance for ATI users.
• Support for Uplay friends’ list with more than 100 contacts.
• Fixed Gunsmith issues for Windows user names with special characters (é, à, ç, etc.).
• Improved textures on “Market Night” map.

For full details please see this post in our forums. Any issues with the new patch should be posted in Ubisoft's forums here.

Out today is a new trailer, launch date and platforms confirmed, and some very nice merchandising including in special edition packs.

Watch the trailer and read all about it here.

What do the following have in common, ear muffs, Halloween costumes, underwear, beverage glassware and toothbrushes..?

They are all potential Ghost Recon merchandise opportunities, if Ubisoft's latest trademark applications are anything to go by!

See the remarkable full list in our Ghost Recon forums.

A quick shout out for two reliable sources of great Ghost Recon gaming.

First up, Tactical Operations Squad. These guys play no nonsense co-op for Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six.

To join in their games, check their website, or contact Riley in our Ghost Recon forums.

Secondly, there's a new Ghost Recon server up and running, check them out on their website or contact etreX in our forums.

Good games!

You might not recognise the name, but Pauline Jacquey produced the console versions of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for Ubisoft.

Pauline is now managing director of Ubisoft Reflections, helping to create the exciting Watch Dogs title, coming soon. More here.

Could the PC be the lead platform for the next Ghost Recon title from Ubisoft? Certainly the long suffering PC Ghost Recon community would sit up and take notice if that was the case, and it may not be a pipe dream if the latest word out of camp Ubisoft is a sign of things to come;

Watch dogs looks great, but a PC lead on the next Ghost Recon would be even better! Discuss!

Ubisoft released new DLC for Ghost Recon Future Soldier today.

Read our Khyber Strike review here, and the Official release notes from Ubisoft here.

Ubisoft are expanding their digital game distribution service uPlay with the addition of an impressive selection of additional publishers and developers titles.

Games from Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and many others can now be purchased through your uPlay account. This means titles such as Arma 2: Complete Collection and Batman: Arkham City™ Game of the Year Edition can now be added to uPlay accounts.

For the next couple of weeks, anyone buying a new game priced at £16.99 or over can select a free game from the following : Driver® San Francisco Deluxe Edition, From Dust, Might & Magic® Heroes® VI Deluxe Edition, Rayman® Origins, The Settlers 7™ Gold Edition or World in Conflict®: Complete Edition.

Read the full press release here.

Ghost Recon fans might be interested to hear news today that  505 Games have partnered with  Christian Allen (creative director of the Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon franchise) in the production of his new title Takedown: Red Sabre.

Read more on the official forums at Serellan.com, or in our forums here.

For the next two weeks Ubisoft are making available an Assassin's Creed pack for Ghost Recon Online.

All sorts of kit and goodies are available, read more on the official GRO site.

Here's a new realism mod from Doc Caliban for Ghost Recon that really improves the experience. It works by removing all the game cues that give you unseen information about the enemy.

No more text information about enemy down, and no more red dots revealing the status and location of enemies, only your own observations count!

Download NAG from here and read more about it in the Ghost Recon Modding forums.

PC gamers can enjoy the additional content from Raven Strike DLC right now from Steam or uPlay store.

Included in this DLC expected to find new missions, new maps and a new guerilla mode. Read our full Raven Strike review for more details.

Thanks to Doc Caliban Ghost Recon fans can now enjoy Panoramic Night Vision as seen in Zero Dark Thirty, when playing Ghost Recon night missions.

Download GP NVG here, read more in our Ghost Recon forum.

Ubisoft have put together a collection of Ghost Recon titles to be released to the public later this winter.

The exact contents of this collection have still to be confirmed, more details soon...

It's hard to think, but back in the day, when Ghost Recon was originally launched, website forums were not as widespread as they are now, and what forums did exist were known as bulletin boards. Chat wasn't by shoutboxes or forum add-ons, it was on Internet Relay Chat, or IRC.

Now, a group of Ghost Recon fans are pulling together to resurrect those days and get some good old school Ghost Recon games back on the go, using IRC to connect and organise.

Join in the fun here, and get involved in some fun games without any hastle.

Ubisoft have released via uPlay title update 1.6 for Ghost Recon Future Soldier. Highlights include

• All new Campaign Hardcore mod with tougher enemies
• Free exclusive content
• Performance and online stability improved
• Added support for GeForce GT600 and Radeon HD7000
• MP-412 handgun (Bodark) and additional weapon skins unlocked

For the full list of content please see the GRFS v1.6 update.

Further to yesterdays news on a new update for Future Soldier on the PC, here's a list of the content you can expect to see...

• Free exclusive PC content:
• special campaign hardcore mode
• night variants of two adversarial maps
• performance and compatibility improved
• online stability improved
• A fix for many issues reported by the community
• Integration of all Consoles’ Title Updates
• Respec token requirement removed.

JohnTC02's latest custom mission for GRAW 2 has a treat for fans - all new buildings.

All new buildings (including sliding doors)  is not the only new feature in Fort Strike though, as a new animation feature means that items such as laptops can be used as interactive objectives.

Download Fort Strike here now!

Watch the news here.