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You heard it here at threevue first! Ubisoft is trying to bring back the dino-dead arcade market by making a stand-up Splinter Cell arcade cabinet. I snapped this juicy pic while I was walking around a Vegas casino floor pointing at things with a shotgun.

Ok, I’m lying. I took the picture from my TV while I was playing Rainbow Six Vegas 2. It’s obviously just a little toungue-in-cheek product tie-in by Ubisoft, maker of both games. This was hardly the only one in the game, though. There were huge banners and billboards throughout pimping real-world things like the movie Jumper (apparently now available on Blu-ray, according to the game), and the upcoming Far Cry 2 (also Ubi-made).

I wonder if these advertisements have anything to do with the forced update I had to do when I first loaded the game. Will there be an update every couple days or weeks that do nothing but put up new advertisements? Hey, that actually might be a good idea. Someone get Major Nelson on the phone!