The weekly update for PlayStation Network Store in Europe is out and has some sweet downloadable content including Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2: Gift Pack and a free MGS 4 OTC Theme for PlayStation 3 owners. PSP owners on the other hand will be getting a free Space Invaders Extreme Demo. Want to find out what else is on the store? Then head on over to the full article!

It's action shooters galore once again as the latest set of downloadable content for the PlayStation Store in Europe features the classic FPS title, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Along with Killzone: Liberation on the PlayStation Portable, they make the perfect action and FPS combination for fans to distract themselves with for weeks to come. You can read the entire list of downloadable content on the PlayStation Store for this week in our full article.

Last week we saw Nintendo lead the pack for the second week in a row as Mario Kart Wii dominated the software charts in Japan. This week tells a very similar story as the wacky go kart racing title racked in an additional 152,000 copies and took the top spot in the Media Create software chart list once again. Read more about the other games on the list in our full article after the jump.

Ubisoft recently acquired full rights to the Tom Clancy name on a perpetual basis, relieving them of all future obligations to pay royalties for the franchise. But how much did they have to pay so that they don't, um, pay? Analyst Michael Pachter estimates it to be around US$ 94 million. Ouch. More details in the full article.

Ubisoft struck gold with their acquisition of the Tom Clancy name for life. How much did it cost them, and how big a gold mine will it bring them? Talks are also in the air about their venture into the world of MMOs with the said name. To find out more, read up over at the full article.

We're in for a brutal week to kick this month off, marked by Kratos' latest killing trip through God of War: Chains of Olympus for the PSP and Jimmy Hopkins' enrollment for scholarship in Bullworth Academy. War is nigh with Warhammer 40K's latest expansion and Army of Two, though there's still a couple of baseball titles inbound if you want a break from all the violence. All these are waiting at the full article, so hit that jump!

One of the most interesting things a developer can do is to explain how or why they did this and that for a particular game. Ubisoft did exactly that in a video interview with Michael Deplater conducted at the latest Game Developers Conference, and the game in question was Tom Clancy's EndWar. Get it straight from the horse's mouth after the jump.

Got some cash to burn on video games? Well you might want to check out the "monster sale" that Play.com is having. They've got some pretty good titles such as Conan for the Xbox 360 and the World of Warcraft Battle Chest for PCs and Macs.

Want to find out more? Head on over to the full article for more details on the sale.

The original Rainbow Six: Vegas was released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and the PC. From all indications, it looks like Ubisoft decided not to take a multi-platform approach to the sequel of the game. The company's official website only listed Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 on the Xbox 360 and PC.

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Tom Clancy titles have always been high-end shooters that not only gave you the feeling of being a living, breathing, thinking machine of organized destruction and tactical supression, but they also paved the way for an entirely new take on the shooting game genre - that "take" being the ability to predict your opponent's movements three or four steps ahead by clever use of strategy and weaponry

All that's in this gameplay video update where we see Ubisoft's latest offering of the Tom Clancy series on the PSP, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 in action.

In these videos, we see quite a large chunk of gameplay for Mission 1 and Mission 2 - and suffice to say, the game doesn't disappoint even in PlayStation Portable form. In fact, I'd even go out to say that it doesn't look like a portable title at all, but rather a full console title. Yes, it's that good.

Slick graphics, crisp sound effects, an over-the-shoulder camera that lets you get a full view of the action - it's all here, and with the same explosion-packed quality that we've come to expect from Tom Clancy titles. Enjoy!

The other video after the jump!