Eric Couzian and Nouredine Abboud of Ubisoft, discussing Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands.
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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands will be Ubisoft’s gigantic open world game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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In the past year, five of the 10 top-selling console games were open worlds, like Grand Theft Auto V or Watch Dogs. That fact wasn’t lost on Ubisoft, which is unveiling a new open world game, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles today.

The title is a the latest in the long-running futuristic soldier combat series, and it is set in as complete an open world as Ubisoft can build, said Yannis Mallat, head of Ubisoft Montreal, in a press briefing.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.