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Ubisoft wants to push the morality of the battlefield in next year’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Speaking to Game Informer, the title’s creative director Maxime Beland said Sam Fisher will be faced with morally ambiguous choices in how he deals with his enemies and the men he interrogates. Blacklist pits Fisher …
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Read More »Clint Hocking leaves LucasArts
Games exec quits Star Wars developer
Read More »Clint Hocking quits LucasArts
LucasArts developer Clint Hocking has left the firm. The popular games developer who created hit franchises such as Splinter Cell and Far Cry 2, joined LucasArts from Ubisoft in July 2010. Hocking wrote on his blog: "I recently left my job at LucasArts and am moving on to something new. …
Read More »MICROSOFT: Blockbuster year of games for Xbox 360
Disappointed that there was no word of Xbox 720? Microsoft says there’s no need, thanks to its "biggest year for blockbuster games in Xbox history". The platform holder confidently claims that the next twelve months is going to be better than any previous year for Xbox 360 users, thanks to …
Read More »MICROSOFT: Splinter Cell: Black List set for spring 2013
The next game in the Splinter Cell franchise is set to arrive in spring next year. As rumoured last week and confirmed this afternoon, Splinter Cell: Black List was unveiled at Microsoft’s E3 press conference today. It will launch on PS3, PC and Xbox 360. The 360-edition will also include …
Read More »E3 2012: First Splinter Cell Black List screens appear
It looks like the rumours are true – Ubisoft will tonight reveal Splinter Cell: Black list. New screens from Gamekyo – which can be seen below – reveal at least one of the game’s locations to be the Iraqi town of Mirawa. Also note that series’ protagonist Sam Fisher is …
Read More »RUMOUR: New Splinter Cell to break-out at E3
A new chapter in the chronicles of troubled hard man Sam Fisher will be revealed by Ubisoft at E3, rumours would have us believe. It will be called Splinter Cell: Black List, IGN reports, and is scheduled for release on Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U in January 2013. Although …
Read More »PSN gets jump on bricks and mortar with Splinters Cell
The PlayStation Store starts selling the HD remakes of Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell tomorrow – over a month before they arrive on disc at retail. Splinter Cell HD Trilogy is a current-gen remake of the first three stealth games – the original, plus Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory – with 3D …
Read More »Splinter Cell Trilogy delayed again
Ubisoft has announced a second delay to the release of PS3 only title Splinter Cell Trilogy HD. Having previously been due out in March of this year the game has already been pushed back once to June. It will now be released in the UK on September 23rd, right as …
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