Among the handful of Ubiscoops  about 2010’s releases coming out of today’s investor call, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot brought up the tactical Tom Clancy franchise Ghost Recon. Beyond the already revealed platforms for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Guillemot detailed the franchise’s further ubiquity, saying the next Ghost Recon game will "be on all platforms: 360, PS3, Wii, PSP, [and] DS." He noted that the Wii version of Ghost Recon will "be done by a different team" with a "different approach … created for that Wii population." Presumably, the game will involve standing on the balance board to approximate a sniper’s breathing — and it’ll also be made up entirely of mini-games. […] 

From ghostrecon.us.ubi.com:

Q: How can I access the Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier multiplayer beta?

A: Currently, this exclusive beta invitation will be available for a limited time via Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction™ for the Xbox 360®. Be sure to hold onto your disk, as you will access the beta through SCC’s main menu.

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Here’s a teaser trailer from GameTrailers:

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Une version Bêta multijoueur exclusive disponible dès cet été

Montréal, QUEBEC – Le 09 février 2010 – Ubisoft annonce le développement de Tom Clancy™’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ par les studios d’Ubisoft Paris. Ce nouveau jeu sortira fin d’année 2010.

Créé par l’équipe talentueuse à l’origine du succès de Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter^® et de Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter^® 2, Tom Clancy™’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ se distingue par une technologie de pointe, des prototypes d’armes sophistiqués et des modes solo et multijoueur innovants, en phase avec les nouvelles attentes des joueurs. Il proposera une aventure inédite qui offrira une expérience de jeu intense et originale, dont le niveau de qualité sans précédent ravira autant les fans que les nouveaux joueurs.

Ubisoft permettra aux joueurs d’expérimenter, en avant première, Tom Clancy™’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ en Bêta multijoueur cet été. Cette offre sera disponible pour une durée limitée, et sera réservée possesseurs du jeu Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction™ sur Xbox 360^®, qui sortira en avril 2010.

De plus amples informations sur Tom Clancy™’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ sont disponibles sur le site internet : www.GhostRecon.com

Since Ubisoft formally announced Ghost Recon 4 back in April, news on the game — or anything Ghost Recon-related, for that matter — has been pretty scant. If a trademark discovered by Superannuation recently is any indication of where the series is going, however, then it seems "the Ghosts" are going into the future. Just this week, Ubisoft trademarked "Ghost Recon: Future Soldier" with the usual "game software and electronic game programs" descriptor for video game trademarks.

In fairness, the Ghost Recon games have always been set a bit into the future, with Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 taking place in the not-so-distant 2014. Will the French game publisher take the next step and bring the series into the somewhat-more-distant future? 2015, perhaps? We’ve heard that, by then, you won’t need roads. Think of that!

Straight out of Ubisoft’s Q308 earnings call comes news that Assassin’s Creed 2 – the not-so-secret sequel to the 6 million plus selling megahit – will be silently leaping onto consoles "by March 2010" according to the Twitter feed of gaming gournalist Geoff Keighley Ubisoft’s third quarter earnings report.

Ubi’s forecasting for its 2009 fiscal year – running from April 2009 through March 2010 – takes "into account … 7 franchise titles" including Assassin’s Creed 2, the mysterious (still Xbox exclusive?) Splinter Cell Conviction, and Ghost Recon. Some quick finger-based math tells us that leaves four unannounced "franchise titles." Beyond Good and Evil 2, maybe? Red Steel 2, perhaps? Throw us a bone here!

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Ubisoft is to reveal new instalments in the acclaimed Tom Clancy shooting franchises, Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six this year, sources have told CVG.

According to our secret mouthpiece, both Clancy games will be announced by the French publisher later this year and there’s every chance they could even release this side of Christmas.

What’s not clear is whether or not the new games will be continuations of current-gen spin-offs Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Rainbow Six Vegas, or entirely new entries.

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