After a few years on leave, is deploying the franchise for a new instalment slated to hit PS3, and during the 2010 holiday season.

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is being developed by the Ubisoft Paris team that handled the Advanced Warfighter iterations, though more details are hard to glean from the brief reveal made today. Whether it will stick with the style of the latter or make changes to compete with 2 and is uncertain.

We do know that Ubisoft will launch a beta for the game over the summer. On Ubisoft's community feed the company pledged beta access for anyone purchasing an 360 copy of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction.

Wii, PSP, and versions of the game are also planned. More details on Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier are expected during E3, well ahead of its holiday launch.

By Tracy Erickson