Ubisoft's heading into the weekend dropping a large tease about Splinter Cell.
As for what it's teasing, who is aware of? The Splinter Cell series has been sadly dormant for years now, the final game being 2013's Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Since then, we've heard little or no till Ubisoft remembered Splinter Cell existed by adding Steam achievements to a 12-year-old game just a couple of weeks ago.
If we're trustworthy, immediately's tease doesn't present a lot more data — we've received a close-up of Sam Fisher's face and a hashtag, Splinter Cell — however apparently, the alt description is a little more revealing.
"Close-up of Sam Fisher from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, showing a stern expression with focused eyes, short dark hair, and a rugged beard, set against a blurred high-tech background," the outline explains. "He's locked in."
👁️👄👁️#SplinterCell pic.twitter.com/Uh47DxdNQu
— Ubisoft (@Ubisoft) May 30, 2025
It's additionally attention-grabbing that Ubisoft specifies this screenshot is from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, and never from the upcoming Splinter Cell Remake, so make of that what you’ll.
The Splinter Cell collection is about to sneak back into action with a remake of the traditional first game within the franchise, Splinter Cell Remake. We nonetheless don't know very a lot about it different than the brand new model shall be constructed from the ground up utilizing the superior Snowdrop engine. Our final significant replace got here in 2022 when IGN met with Ubisoft Toronto developers to discuss their design philosophy behind the game.
“20 years later, we can look back at the plot, the characters, the overall story of the game [and] make some improvements — things that might not have aged particularly well,” mentioned artistic director Chris Auty on the time. “But the core of the story, the core of the experience will remain as it was in the original game.”
Perhaps Ubisoft is priming followers for a Summer Game Fest announcement, however with out affirmation, it's laborious to know for sure. On the plus facet, we don't have too long to attend — Summer Game Fest and IGN Live are proper across the nook. The Last of US Season 2 shall be at IGN Live, in addition to Sonic Team, Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles 2, Norse: Oath of Blood, and more.
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