Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Officially Announced, Splinter Cell: Conviction Includes Beta Access

The new entry in Ubisoft's tactical shooter Ghost Recon known previously only as 'Ghost Recon 4' will be named Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and be released during the 2010 holiday season, the publisher announced today.

Few details were given, other than it's coming from Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter developer Ubisoft Paris and a press release boasts of "cutting-edge technology, prototype high-tech weaponry, and state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes."

The logo and 2007's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2.

Invitations to a multiplayer beta running this summer will "for a limited time" be bestowed upon players buying Splinter Cell Conviction on Xbox 360, whose release date has been set in stone for on April 13 in North America then April 16 in Europe.

The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions will be released simultaneously in the 2010 holiday season, according to Ubisoft senior community developer Kimi Matsuzaki on Twitter, while she also says "We will tell more about the PC version later."

'Ghost Recon 4' was initially scheduled for release before the end of March 2010 before being pushed back to between April 2010 and the end of of March 2011. Apparently development has picked up pace since Future Warrior was last heard from.