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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Ubisoft is moving the video game Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon from your video game console to the big screen.  Along with the video games, Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is in the mix to become a movie adaptation for your viewing pleasure.  This was not surprising, given the popularity of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Alpha 20-minute short movie that was produced by Ridley Scott.

Scene from Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

The video game centers around a tactical military unit whose missions are so secret and highly classified that the soldiers are called "Ghosts."  

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Soldiers

Given the sometimes dismal showings of video games adapted to movies, the Chief Executive of Ubisoft's Motion Pictures, Jean-Julien Baronnet gave the reassurance that one of the main goals of the movie will be to make it worthy of the game's fan base.  In his words, "We are really in the middle of it ... with so much at stake, it's important we do not give up the DNA of the game, the fundamental pillars."

There was no news at press time regarding an estimated release date or time frame for the movie Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon.

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Observe the National Moment of Silence in honor and memory of the Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut tragedy victims at 9:30 a.m. EST on Friday, December 21, 2012.

Scene from Command and Conquer

The Command and Conquer (C&C) video game has a rich history, dating back to 1995 when it was developed by Westwood Studios.  It was acquired by Electronic Arts (EA) in 1998.  This game is categorized as a Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game.  The exception is Command and Conquer Renegade which was a first person shooter type game.  Command and Conquer video game is recognized as being the first RTS game to enable campaigns to be played cooperatively online.  Previous games only allowed single player campaigns.

Command and Conquer

With a game that started back in the 90's, it is expected that there were several reiterations of the game, including Command and Conquer, the Tiberium and the Red Alert series.  There is also a Command and Conquer Generals series, which was released in 2003.  The plot line of this game is separate from the other

series, has a timeframe set in the future and includes the United States, China and an enemy faction, the Global Liberation Army.

Command and Conquer

Generals 2, which will simply be called, Command and Conquer, will be a browser-based free-to-play game and is expected to be available in 2013. A specific date was unavailable at press time.

Slingshot Santa PC Game

Are you up to the challenge of  getting Santa to his destination? If so, you have come to the right place.  Here is a PC game that has a very short game play with a simple goal -- Just get Santa safely to his destination -- the other side of the mountain.

Santa's elves will be using a cart to propel him .  You, as the video game player, will be using your mouse to position and move Santa just right so that he will reach his goal.

Will Santa get to the other side of the mountain?

With your skill and precision game play, you should have no trouble at all accomplishing this mission.  Should you not succeed the first time -- just click on the "Throw Again" icon and try and try again.

Here's the link to the game.

http://www.learn4good.com/games/action/sling_shot_santa.htm

Have fun!

Scene from Star Trek

Namco Bandai Games has announced that the Star Trek video game will be released April 2013. This latest version of Star Trek will be based upon JJ Abrams' reboot of the Star Trek characters when they were younger Captain Kirk and Dr. Spock.

Star Trek Video Game

In the video game, which was developed by Digital Extremes, you will play Dr. Spock or Captain Kirk. There are pre-order bonuses of this game which consist of Stealth Pack complete with uniforms, Brawler Pack with leather jacket and vulcan costume, Kelvin Pack with uniforms and phaser, Academy pack with uniforms and phaser and Kobayashi Naru Pack with uniforms. 

Star Trek pre-order bonuses

Star Trek video game will release on April 23, 2013 in North America and April 26, 2013 in Europe.  This game will be playable on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the PC.

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