SR2005
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, September 27 2005
Alpha Squad's annual Ghost Recon coop tournament starts next month! Stealth Recon 2005 promises some new features for competing teams to enjoy, and the usual excellent organisation from Alpha Squad. Full details of the campaign and some information on team specifics can be found in this forum discussion.

Team places are restricted to 25, and sign ups start early in October. There is a brand new website being launched over the coming days specifically for this tournament, so bookmark StealthRecon.net now and get ready for another awesome Ghost Recon coop tournament!

AGEIA Physics
Posted by Rocky on Monday, September 26 2005
Recent announcements revealed that Ghost Recon : Advanced Warfighter is to be one of the first titles to include AGEIA Physics. Which effects does this mean we can look forward to? Do we need new hardware? How much will it cost? Read our AGEIA Physics report to find out and download example movies!

Mods 10
Posted by Rocky on Monday, September 26 2005
GiWeDa has produced our 10th Ghost Recon Mods Roundup detailing five mods currently under development. This time we take a look at Armenia, Chernaya Noch ‘Dark Night’, Selva!, OSOK, and Essence of Combat. Read GiWeDa's full report and check out the screenshots here.

Stopping Power
Posted by Rocky on Monday, September 26 2005
Christian Allen (Serellan) has posted an interesting explanation of the technicalities of a weapon's stopping power in Summit Strike. Anyone interested in ballistics will find it a good read, check it out here.

Militia Man
Posted by Rocky on Monday, September 26 2005
Ghost Recon scripter Militiaman has completed a new set of three missions for fans to enjoy. The pack also includes Mission HX to add random elements and replay value. Download here.

Game Daily
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, September 22 2005
There's an interesting Ghost Recon article up at Game Daily today. They interviewed Ubisoft's Brand Manager about the success of Ghost Recon Summit Strike, read the full thing here.

Wallpaper
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, September 17 2005
I've added Brainman2K's Ghost Recon classic wallpaper to the downloads section. This is the wallpaper reportedly seen on GRIN's office webcam! Check it out here.

French QA
Posted by Rocky on Friday, September 16 2005
The French Ubisoft portal has posted a new Question and Answer session with Christian Allen from Red Storm. This session has some new information that fans will want to hear about. Luckily we have a member in our forum who does! Read the translation here, and remember to wait for the full English version to appear at ubi.com next week!

Wallpapers
Posted by Rocky on Friday, September 16 2005
Here's some excellent new wallpapers for your desktop from the.ronin.

The top two are of course for all Ghost Recon Classic fans, and the bottom one is a very clever flash wallpaper that allows you to specify your own quote to appear in it! You can download these wallpapers here.

GR:AW SS
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, September 15 2005
Ubisoft have released a new image of Ghost Recon : Advanced Warfighter from the PC version.

You can view the original release with a brief explanation of what's happening in this scene, by UbiRazz here. Further forum discussion in our forums here. Also remember to check the official site for new screenshots added earlier this week.

Frag Dolls UK
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, September 14 2005
The Frag Dolls UK website has just gone live with quite a lot of content, check it out.

Update: Ubisoft have a server issue since I posted that link, hopefully it'll be fixed soon and you'll be able to surf to the brand new Frag Dolls website!

Frag Dolls Tips
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, September 14 2005
Ubisoft's Frag Dolls are sharing their Summit Strike XBox tips with fans in a new movie!

You can view the movie at AOL here. We are trying to set up a download mirror as the movie does not stream too well from AOL. Totally nonsensical forum discussion will probably start here.

Wallpapers
Posted by Rocky on Monday, September 12 2005
We've a pack of new Summit Strike wallpapers for download today.

The pack also includes some concept art that can be used to create your own Ghost Recon Summit Strike wallpapers. Grab the zip file from our Downloads page here.

No Easy Day
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, September 11 2005
DTD have released version 1.5 of their cracking No Easy Day conversion for Ghost Recon. Full credit to the DTD team for producing an extremely polished and enjoyable mod for Ghost Recon, and for supporting it with a superb update!

In addition to the excellent campaign that will see you will provide close VIP support, stop suicide bombers, and capture foreign intelligence agents in hostile territory, this latest version adds 48 selectable multiplayer characters, lots of new enemy weapons, claymores, C4 kits, and of course all previous bugs squashed!

More details and the download link can be found in our downloads here.

GR:AW shots
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, September 10 2005
There are a heap of interesting new Ghost Recon : Advanced Warfighter images to be found on this website. Discussion has already started here.

Grin Interview
Posted by Rocky on Friday, September 9 2005
As most of you know, long time Staff member here, Whiteknight, was lucky enough to be flown to Germany to meet the development team behind Ghost Recon : Advanced Warfighter, courtesy of Ubisoft.

Whiteknight has put together a very detailed report that spans three pages, a report that has been the source of much impatience from the fans here! Not least because people who know Whiteknight, know that he went to Germany with mixed thoughts about the direction Ghost Recon was apparently taking. The whole trip was worth it just to see Whiteknight handing the CEO of GRIN a six pack of Coca-Cola in reference to his Ghost Recon Classic Campaign. That has to be one of the funniest things we've ever seen - you can see that photo and read about it in the full report.

Read the full interview with GRIN here, and post your own thoughts (and thanks to Whiteknight hopefully) in our forums here.

RSE Letter
Posted by Rocky on Friday, September 9 2005
Today I received a letter from Red Storm Entertainment! It's a thank you to the Ghost Recon community, to the fans for their support, dedication and feedback through the forums. Also included was a very cool poster for Summit Strike signed by the whole development team at Red Storm!

Five of the Lead Developers on Summit Strike included their own signed "thank you" message. These messages show a personal side to the developers at Red Storm that we don't usually see. Some of them do post in our forums occasionally, and as revealed in the letter some of them just lurk!

What the letter makes clear, is the same thing that our own Staff members who have actually met members of RSE have already told us; the Ghost Recon team at Red Storm are extremely dedicated to this series.

"As a development studio we are lucky to have such a great fan base... Thank you." Jeff McGann, Lead Designer.

You can read the entire letter in our forums here, where I have posted a scan of the letter and a photo of the poster. On behalf of the staff here at GhostRecon.net, thank you to Red Storm for this remarkable gesture of goodwill, it is very much appreciated.

Wet Sun
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, September 8 2005
Giweda has produced a Ghost Recon mission called Wet Sun, and is releasing it now due to the main project falling through. The mission can be played solo, or online coop. If played solo, you'll be treated to cinematics. Download here, forum discussion here.

Crazy Movie
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, September 7 2005
Pagey sent in his first attempt at making a Ghost Recon movie featuring a sound track and special effects, download it here.

Sniping QA
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, September 4 2005
The official French Ubisoft portal has published a new GR:AW question and answer session that includes some details on sniping. The Q&A will probably appear on english speaking Ubisoft sites soon, until then you can read it in our forums here.

Cobra Missions
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, September 4 2005
Here are nine brand new missions from South Africa by Hein that involve using the Cobra attack helicopter in a suppression role. Check it out here.

TA Gaming
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, September 4 2005
Total Assualt Gaming dropped us a line to tell us about their Ghost Recon ladder...

"TaGaming.com has been around for 3 years and running. We are going to be launching the best tournaments in gaming within the next month. It will  be a 64 team tourney with grand prize of  game servers and 1000.00 dollars"

Their Ghost Recon news page is here, and the current Ghost Recon Standings here.

GR:AW Box Art
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, September 4 2005
The box art for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter has been released!

If you think this is an improvement on the infamous Screaming Man from Ghost Recon 2 consoles, say so in our forums!

Frag Dolls UK
Posted by Rocky on Friday, September 2 2005
The Frag Dolls UK have officially been announced by Ubisoft as "Jam" from Staffordshire, "Kitt" from Glasgow, "Lucky" from Doncaster, "Sarin" from Dublin and "Voodoo" from Exeter!

"(The Frag Dolls are)... a girl gamer group launched to prove that boys aren't the only ones capable of holding a controller.  They'll carry the torch for "girls that game" - discussing experiences via their blogs and forums, participating in online gaming sessions and appearing at live events. "

Their website is about to go live, so make sure and check out Frag Dolls UK soon. Also check this discussion in our forums where MagnumKP has being doing some detective work....

If you are interested in gaming babes, you might be interested in a Poll we've been running in the forums to find the most popular female gaming presenter. Some of those pictured have even replied and expressed their thanks for voting! Visit our own Babes of Gaming Poll right here.