Prima Guide
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, January 27 2005
Console owners getting bogged down with Ghost Recon 2? Never fear, the Prima Guide is now available from Direct2Drive! If you prefer it on your bookshelf and not on your harddrive, you can also get it at Amazon.com.

GR:JS Award
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, January 25 2005
The mobile version of Ghost Recon Jungle Storm that appeared on the N-Gage impressed us so much we called it remarkable when we published our review in June last year.

Now, 7 months later it is still being heralded as something special on the mobile scene as it has just picked up Gamespot's Reader's Choice Award for N-Gage Game of the Year 2004. If you have an N-Gage it really is worth a look.

Wannabe GR
Posted by Rocky on Friday, January 21 2005
Wannabe.uk.com have produced a video they are calling "Training Day" that features two of their wannabe members out for a stroll in the woods. The reason I'm mentioning it is because you will all recognise the voices and sound effects used throughout the movie. It's just over 90Mb, right click and save as here.

Los Angeles Photos
Posted by Rocky on Monday, January 17 2005
It's a photo-fest today with our publication of 16 photos taken at the Los Angeles Ghost Recon 2 event. This was the other end of the Ghost Recon 2 competition that Christian Allen took part in at Jacksonville.3,000 miles away at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, celebrities, such as professional basketball player Rick Foxx and movie star Pauly Shore, tested their skills against the Marines, and we have some great photo's of marines in uniform and stars out of uniform, just what you army nuts like to see! Read more on the event at usmc.mil and view all 16 photographs in our forums here.

Forum Awards
Posted by Rocky on Monday, January 10 2005
The forum awards are now ready for your votes! There are numerous polls that you can take part in spread across the 3 categories; Humourous, Modding and General. You don't need to vote in them all, just dip in and take your pick! For your convenience there's a banner at the top of every forum page that'll take you to straight to the polls.

Up 60%
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, January 8 2005
GR-Retreat are reporting that new developments in Ubisoft's shareholdings have seen it's value rise by almost 60% since the EA interest was announced! That's not all, it seems Vivendi are not interested too! What a little soap opera this is turning into.... forum discussion is now up to 6 pages and counting....

Ubi Vote
Posted by Rocky on Friday, January 7 2005
Gamespot's front page poll features Ubisoft at the moment, they are polling who should run Ubisoft! Thanks to zantar for noticing this one!

EA and Ubi
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, January 4 2005
The Board of Directors at Ubisoft have issued the following statement through their corporate website.

"In light of recent news spread by the press, Ubisoft’s Board of Directors reiterates that, in the absence of information from the company Electronic Arts regarding its intentions, the latter’s acquisition of 19.9% of the group’s capital is unsolicited and currently considered as hostile. Moreover, it states that there are no negotiations between the two parties at present."

Discussion rages on in our forums here.

1/4 of a Million!
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, January 2 2005
It's a bit of a landmark occasion in our forums today, as we just passed the quarter of a million posts mark! That dubious honour goes to none other than long time forum member, GR.net Supporter and RAF 51 Squadron member ..... Mark Van Damme!

All those posts and over 7,000 members have signed up during the last 2 years almost to the exact day! In December 2002 we lost all our forum data and had to start from the beginning again with new forums installed by Super Bob. The first batch of posts were made here in the first week of January 2003, and now 2 years later to the week, Mark Van Damme made the 250,000th post right here!

I'd like to personally thank all the members and the forum moderators for making the forums such a great place to hang out, debate, and have a laugh - it's been an awesome 2 years! Here's to 2 more!

Marines on GR2
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, January 2 2005
A group of US Marines battled it out on the virtual battlefield against a select group of celebrities in a Ghost Recon 2 Ubisoft sponsored event that saw Ubisoft donate $10,000 to the Armed Forces. Ghost Recon 2 Designer Christian Allen was at the event which saw the Marines leave victorious. Read the story and view some photo's at usmc.mil, and find some additional information and photographs from the event in our forums here.