Merry Christmas!
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, December 24 2006
Merry Christmas to all the fans, forum members and GR.net Supporters who have supported GhostRecon.net during the past twelve months. After many years of waiting 2006 finally saw a new Ghost Recon title released on the PC, with a sequel promised for early next year. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter may have divided opinion within the community, but a community it remained, whether faithful to the new or the old, Ghost Recon fans are indeed a remarkable bunch!

As usual I'd like to take this opportunity to say thanks to the sixteen Admin, Staff and Consultants at GhostRecon.net for the countless hours they put into keeping this site a useful resource and for helping to provide a pleasant forum to use. Thanks also to our ever growing band of Supporters who's support throughout the year(s) has been invaluable.

And finally Merry Christmas to Ubisoft, GRIN and Red Storm Entertainment!

RSE 10th Birthday
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 23 2006
Ubisoft has been heralding their 20th anniversary this year, but not much noise has been made about the fact that Red Storm turned 10 years-old last month. Yes, RSE has come a long way since Tom Clancy, Doug Littlejohns, and a core group of developers committed to making great games back in November 1996.

Since RSE's heyday of Rainbow Six, Rogue Spear, and the original Ghost Recon, things have changed with RSE's acquisition by Ubisoft and its focus now on developing for consoles, but RSE's quality and execution are still outstanding, and this has been recognized by the recent Game of the Year awards for GRAW. The studio has now grown to over 130+ employees and celebrated their 10 year milestone on Nov 17th with cake, pizza and ice cream!

In collaboration with our friends at 3d Retreat, we here at GhostRecon.net want to wish Red Storm a belated Happy 10th Birthday. Join us in GR.net's forums here to leave your birthday wishes, wax nostalgic etc.In the meantime, you can read more about RSE's history here.

Xbox 360 Signed Faceplate Winner
Posted by Rocky on Friday, December 15 2006
You might recall that Ubisoft UK recently supplied us with two custom GRAW Xbox 360 faceplates, and the BAFTA award winning development team at Redstorm in the USA offered to sign them for us. We put the pair up for prizes, and today one of the winners was good enough to post a photograph of the signed faceplate in place on his Xbox 360, check it out here.

GRAW GOTY
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, December 7 2006
Red Storm continue their determined Game of the Year streak with the Ghost Recon series this week with yet another GOTY accolade.

As CR6 pointed out in our forums, Demmex have awarded GRAW on the Xbox 360 GOTY title in the Console Game of the Year award, and also a Best Use of Sound in Game nomination.

Demmex are Digital Entertainment Media, Industry leaders in Entertainment and Media.

20 Years of Ubi Gaming *updated*
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 2 2006
To celebrate 20 years of gaming Ubisoft UK are running a free draw with some great gaming prizes including entire gaming systems. Anyone in the UK with a Ubi.com account can sign in to see if they have won a prize, and even if you lose this time, you will still be awarded a discount coupon to use at Ubisofts online store, so, give it a go!

*update* Forum member Crowman from RSi has won a prize - a PSP game! And now another two members have also won a prize! Let's see how many winners we can get!

Dev Map tips
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 2 2006
Ubisoft are leaking out three top secret movies straight from the dev team showing their own tips and tricks for mastery for multiplayer maps. The first movie covers two maps - Treasury and Nowhere, download or stream it here.

This three and a half minute movie by Prince highlights likely camper spots, good sniping zones and danger zones.

GRAW GOTY Edition
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 2 2006
GRAW 360 Game of the Year edition is out on December the 8th and comes complete with the full contents of the Chapter 2 DLC pack. Additionally Ubisoft have also announced that GRAW Chapter 2 DLC for the Xbox 360 is now available for download at half the launch price!

The content list for Chapter 2 is quite extensive, check it out here.