Ubisoft, the publishers behind the recent hit Tom Clancy’s HAWX, have announced that the European Assault Pack DLC will be released onto the store on the 23rd of April.

The pack is the first instalment of downloadable content for the game, and adds a set of new planes that you probably never heard of, but include the Saab-37 Viggen and a FB-22 prototype bomber.

Throughout April, we’ve been running our big Spring Competition for everyone who followed us on Twitter and ‘tweeted’ a particular phrase.

Now, the time has come to announce the winner of this impressive bounty…

You asked us for more competitions, and boy are we gonna give them to you!

Here’s a reminder of the first competition in the 2009 giveaway schedule. There is still time to enter before the winner is chosen this Sunday.

There are no two ways about it. The Thrustmaster T.Flight Hotas X is big. Really big.

Having a sizeable peripheral could be seen as a boon or a millstone. If size is important to you, if lengthy and vaguely pornographic product names appeal and if having something substantial in both your hands when you play is important, you’re going to love the T.Flight Hotas X.

Thankfully, those aren’t the only things going for this mammoth device…

It has been some time since the PlayStation 3 was graced with any kind of flight action game.

Now the balance has been redressed with the arrival of a new title in the Tom Clancy franchise.

So does Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. – which for the purposes of saving our fingers will be simply called HAWX from now on – reach for the sky? Or is it just SAM fodder?

H.A.W.X. is the upcoming flight-em-up from Ubisoft that seems to have really grabbed our attention.

Now, it can grab your hearts and souls too with a demo that is due to arrive on the PlayStation Store this Thursday. So what will the demo include?

Ubisoft’s upcoming game in the Tom Clancy franchise, H.A.W.X., seems to keep getting better and better. Announced in an interview, the game will support trophies and a little thing called Sixaxis. Sixaxis? Oh yeah, that still exists.

Unfortunately there is no word on just what type of trophies will be included in the game but we do have a brief description of how Sixaxis will be implemented…

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. will be with us soon, and Ubisoft have been inundated with questions over at the official H.A.W.X. forums regarding this flight-em-up title.

So rather than make you wade through reams of forum posts to discover the answers, Ubi were good enough to distil the most frequently asked questions into a single document.

So if you’re wondering what the FAQ Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. is all about, read on…