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[Update] Added two new videos featuring Jade Raymond giving viewers a proper tour of Ubisoft Toronto. Find ‘em below. [End of Update]
Something big and important is afoot at Ubisoft’s ‘new’ game development studio in Toronto, and if you’re a fan of the Splinter Cell series, then it’s time to get excited!
In a video featurette looking at what’s going on under the roof of Ubisoft’s Toronto offices, studio manager Jade Raymond (producer of Assassin’s Creed I and II) takes us on a short tour of the building and reveals that not only are there already 83 employees working on games, but that one of the project currently underway is the next iteration of Ubisoft’s stealth action adventure series, Splinter Cell 6
Find out about other goings-on at the Ubisoft Torontoy studio and get further progress updates from Raymond and the team with the featurette below:
During a conference call announcing estimates for its quarterly financial results, Ubisoft has announced that the next entry to the Driver series of action racing games, Driver: San Francisco, has been delayed until 2011, while simultaneously revealing sales numbers for a bevy of the publisher’s titles, including Splinter Cell: Conviction, Just Dance and Avatar.
The Deniable Ops: Insurgency Pack is now available for Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Conviction for Xbox 360 and PC gamers to purchase and download.
You can get it through Xbox LIVE Marketplace (for 800 MS Points), or through Ubisoft’s store for the PC
Splinter Cell: Conviction is soon to join the ranks of games that offer ‘premium’ downloadable content (DLC) over and above the ‘free’ variety, when the Deniable Ops Insurgency Pack releases next week for Xbox 360 and PC gamers.
Hot on the heels of NPD’s recently released sales results for the videogame market in the US for April 2010, the sales tracking organisation has released a list of the top twenty best selling games for the month, expanding on the top ten shown in its initial report.
As we already know, Splinter Cell: Conviction heads up the chart with 486 100 units sold in April, a bunch of evergreen Nintendo titles fill in the top ten and God of War III appears at No. 5 with 180 300 units sold. But what about the rest of the titles in the top twenty?
The full listing follows below:
During a somewhat quiet month for videogame releases, the NPD Group has announced videogame software and hardware sales figures in the US for the month of April, revealing an incredible 26 percent drop in overall revenues for the region compared to the same period last year.
Good news for Ubisoft was hidden in the bleak April report, as the publisher’s Splinter Cell: Conviction topped the software sales chart for the month, ahead of evergreen Nintendo titles and the blockbuster God of War III.
EA manages to break Ubisoft’s 4-week run in the top spot on the UK’s Software Chart, as 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa debuts at number 1. Not really surprising given that this is the World Cup themed version of the tenth biggest selling game ever in the UK, FIFA 10.
You might be interested to learn that during this week in the World Cup year of 2006, FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 represented 15% of FIFA 2006’s launch week. 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa performs similarly recording 14.6% of FIFA 10’s launch week, this despite only being released on the Xbox 360, PS3, PSP and Wii in comparison to seven formats in 2006.
Despite a 46% drop in sales, Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Conviction has managed to hold onto the top spot on Chart Track’s UK Software Sales Chart this past week, while the publisher’s other chart dominating game, Just Dance (sales down 31%), remains at No. 2.
When a game series reaches the 5th installment, chances are you would have been there, seen that, and done that. It takes a special type of developer to throw everything out of the window and start over, often losing fans because the game changed too much. Developers would far too often rely on the winning formula to release a boring update to a series. Ubisoft Montreal was about to do just that. Thankfully they realized at some point during development that the same recipe will not work. They then started all over again, and rather than baking the same recipe, decided to refine it using the best ingredients. They added a bit more spice and a lot of flair. They added some time and let it bake a little longer. Was the end result worth the wait? Or was this concoction a flop?
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Splinter Cell: Conviction.
Starting with the release of Shaun White Skateboarding this holiday season, Ubisoft is to begin including in-game, digital instructions and instructions manuals with the publisher’s range of physical disc-based PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 games.
This initiative will be in an effort to save production costs on games and, more importantly, save the trees that are used to create paper manuals currently found in all videogame boxes.
Ubisoft must be pretty pleased with the results of Chart Track’s UK Software Sales Chart this week, as not only is the Wii-exclusive title Just Dance still going strong at No. 2, but the publisher’s newly released action stealth game, Splinter Cell: Conviction, now holds the No. 1 spot on the chart.
This is the first time that games from Ubisoft have ever occupied both the No. 1 and No. 2 slots on the UK sales chart, and the first time that the company has ever occupied the No. 1 position on the chart two weeks in a row with two different titles. Quite a feat!
The previously announced Limited Edition Splinter Cell: Conviction Xbox 360 bundle has been priced for South Africa, and will be available for purchase on April 16th for the recommended retail price of R3499.
You can follow El33tonline’s considerable amount of previous coverage of Splinter Cell: Conviction to see tons of excellent screenshots, videos and extra information to fill you in on this action stealth title, and find out more about the fully-featured singleplayer and multiplayer portions of the game.
With the launch of Splinter Cell: Conviction for the Xbox 360 in North America today, a debut trailer for the iPhone and iPod Touch version of the game has come to the surface, giving us a brief glimpse of the fully 3D gameplay that will soon be on offer in the diminutive adaptations.
Watch below:
The much-anticipated, long-in-development Splinter Cell: Conviction releases today in North America on Xbox 360, finally allowing franchise fans to once again step into the stealth-action boots of series-long protagonist Sam Fisher, as he embarks on a journey of vengeance and, indeed, conviction.
If you’re interested in watching the excellently produced launch trailer for Splinter Cell: Conviction, you can do just that over here, but you can also head on down below to watch a character trailer featuring the head of the game’s clandestine Third Echelon organisation, Tom Reed, as he speaks out against Sam Fisher, and condemns his actions - another great trailer, with some great in-game action to boot:
Splinter Cell: Conviction is but a mere two weeks away from release, launching exclusively for the Xbox 360 on April 13th in North America, April 15th in Europe and April 16th in the UK.
When the game does become available (after a series of unfortunate delays), we’ll finally be able to get our hands on the full, unfettered stealth-action vision that developers Ubisoft wish to deliver, with a few evolutionary (and some may argue, revolutionary) features thrown into the singleplayer and multiplayer campaigns.
While none of those features (such as ‘last known position’ or the use of image projections for story exposition) are shown in the newly released launch trailer for Splinter Cell: Conviction, it’s still well worth a watch, and if the game isn’t on your radar on the minute, the video may just inspire you to look a little further:
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