There's a Ghost Recon 2 preview on Gamesradar, offering an online version of PC Gamer UK's recent print article which takes a look at what all is new. Thanks HLF.

Over at Ghost Recon Retreat you can find an interview with Christian Allen, game designer on Ghost Recon 2. Questions are about gameplay, reduction in team size, calling in airstrikes, the game engine, AI improvements, and plenty of other things.

The Ghost Recon 2 teaser website has been updated, offering the E3 2004 trailer of the game along with the 12 minute long gameplay demonstration movie. Thanks Blues News.

Following yesterday's console announcements about Far Cry and Rainbow Six 3, Ubisoft today announced Ghost Recon 2 for PC and console systems.

"Ghost Recon has established itself as a mega-selling franchise, and we've retained the core elements that made the first game such a success," said Laurent Detoc, President of Ubisoft, Inc. "But for Ghost Recon 2, we wanted to dial up the intensity and adrenaline to create an experience of total war. We've retooled and improved every aspect of the game, and have integrated a host of incredible new features - and the result is amazing. You will truly feel like you are the hero of a near-future war movie when playing this game." Ghost Recon 2 will continue the tradition of intensity and realism associated with Ubisoft's Tom Clancy brand, with an emotionally charged storyline, a completely redesigned graphics engine and the most intuitive gameplay to date, to fully immerse gamers into the chaos of a high tech war. The game will offer more action than ever before, as it puts players in command of an elite squad of special forces thrust into a tense political situation in East Asia. ...

Ghost Recon 2 is due out this holiday season.

Ubisoft has released the latest Raven Shield patches, updating the original game to version 1.56 and the Athena Sword expansion pack 1.02. You can find Canadian, U.K. and U.S. patches on FileShack. Dedicated server updates are available as well.

The official Raven Shield website has been updated, mentioning that yet another patch is being released, updating Raven Shield to 1.56 and Athena Sword to 1.02. The RS patch gets rid of debug commands that weren't supposed to be available, while the AS patch will fix two map bugs. Thanks Blues.

The official Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow website has been updated with a video from a recent press conference, with actor Michael Ironside talking about his work on the game. Thanks Blues News.

Ubisoft sends along a bunch of new Raven Shield patches, updating the original game and Athena Sword expansion pack. First off there's the patch for people without Athena Sword: 1.0 to 1.54 - U.S., U.K., Canada. Then those who have installed Athena Sword: 1.0 to 1.55 - U.S., U.K., Canada. And then the Athena Sword 1.01 patch to be installed after 1.55: U.S., U.K., Canada. The Raven Shield 1.54 dedicated server update and Athena Sword 1.00 / 1.01 update dedicated server files are out as well.

Ubisoft has released a new Raven Shield: Athena Sword movie, showing a minute and a half of gameplay footage from this expansion pack which is due out soon. Thanks 3D Gamers.

Ubisoft sent out a press release announcing that the Raven Shield expansion pack Athena Sword has gone gold. It should ship to stores March 9. More info on the expansion pack's contents can be found here.

As promised, Ubisoft has released the 1.53 patch for Raven Shield, which hopefully takes care of the wall-peek issue. A dedicated server update is available as well.

According to a post on the official Raven Shield website, yet another patch for this game will be released in a few hours. The v1.53 hotfix will "resolve the wall-peeking issue as well as address the problems users of the OEM discs have been having"

The promised v1.52 patch for Raven Shield has been released, you can find it on FileShack. There is now an integrated update system, players can add custom operatives, support for Athena Sword and "future mission packs" is improved and there are various small bug fixes.

The Raven Shield website has word that the next patch for the game will be released this Tuesday. Version 1.52 will provide some optimizations and tweaks, but the main focus will be fixing the recently introduced wall-peek glitch.

Ubisoft has released yet another Raven Shield patch, updating the game to version 1.51. The new patch takes care of problems with virtual drives.

The latest Raven Shield patch has been released, updating the game to version 1.5. Changes and fixes are related to PunkBuster and CD-keys among a few other things. A patch for the Windows dedicated server has been released as well.

Over at GenGamers you can find six new screenshots from Athena Sword, the Raven Shield expansion pack which will be released early next year.

Also released by Ubisoft is this low-res Athena Sword trailer, showing more from the Raven Shield expansion pack which is now out in 2004. Although if Ubisoft UK is to be believed, the expansion pack is still out November 28...

Ubisoft has sent out a press release announcing that the Raven Shield expansion pack Athena Sword has been delayed until early next year (it was originally due out in December). According to the publisher "This later release date will allow for us to develop the top quality game we know our fans have come to expect from Ubisoft."

The latest Rainbow Six: Raven Shield patch has been released, updating the U.S. version of the game from version 1.4 to version 1.41. The new patch adds PunkBuster support, fixes some typos in the international versions, offers an immediate firing animation toggle and fixes a memory leak among other things. There's an incremental patch from v1.4 or you can get this patch to update the CD version. International versions will soon follow.