Well, welly, well, it looks like someone DID figure out the passcode to enter the JSF site after all! In more EndWar news, logging in to the JSF site (which can also be accessed from Rev64.com via the ads on the Ubisoft Tom Clancy site) with the password s9p1z6 gives you access to the site, where a woman talks about how the EndWar came about. Apparently, in 2014, the United States and a unified Europe pool together their strategic arms and build a global missile defense system, but when Russia discovers new sources of oil, it monopolizes it, and uses the money to further its defensive and offensive capabilities, dawning a new Cold War. When the United States’ space-based weapons delivery system is destroyed in a terrorist attack, conflict exaggerates, leading to the EndWar.

The page has a couple of links to the forum as well as a registration page that allows you to get more information as and when it becomes available, but the most interesting parts of the website are the flashing pieces of text reading EGM216 (a reference to the upcoming world-exclusive preview of the game on EGM) and two little yellow dots on the bottom left corner, which show a GRAW-like soldier on a future battlefield and another video of an extremely fast aircraft diving towards a city to drop off a bomb. Looks like we finally do have a WW3 based RTS game on our hands, now that Company of Heroes has satisfied our itch for a WW2 based one!

After days of going through the same Flash files over and over again, and with no end to theories in sight, it looks like Ubisoft’s viral website for the JSF (covered here and here) may be nothing more than the announcement of their new Console-RTS, EndWar.

In a press release issued today, Ubisoft has written that Tom Clancy’S EndWar, is being developed by Michael de Plater at Ubisoft Shanghai for all next generation consoles, but we’re probably just going to assume it’s not going to include the hapless Wii. Like we had guessed at the blog here (all hail our “133t” internet detective skillz) the game takes place after World War III has broken out in full force and will “push the envelope of technology, showcasing artificial intelligence, graphics, physics and animations that were not possible prior to the launch of the new hardware systems.” Calling it a “strategy game like no other” Ubisoft has said that EndWar will allow gamers “to lead their own armies against hundreds of others online in real global locations on the massive battlefields of World War III.”

Expect a world-exclusive first look of EndWar in the June issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly on May 8. And if that’s not enough, head on over to the JSF forums and see what’s unfolding up there. We don’t know what’s going on, since the site is now asking us for a passcode to enter, but we’re sure one of you will break through any time soon. But jeez, Console exclusive RTS? First Halo: Wars and now this? Looks like PC gamers are being shown the door yet again! And what the heck is up with all console RTS games ending with some Wars or the other?