Lower than every week after Ubisoft promised {that a} new Ghost Recon sport is coming however in all probability not anytime quickly, the corporate says it would mark the collection’ twenty fifth anniversary in August with some correct information on what’s coming subsequent.
“It’s been some time Ghosts!” the announcement excitedly states. “We all know a few of you noticed some updates, we’ll have extra to say on the sixth of August after we have a good time the twenty fifth Anniversary of Ghost Recon. Intel coming quickly.”
My preliminary impression was that that is principally a scaled-down model of final week’s huge Bethesda blowout: A blast of the hype machine meant, at the very least partly, that will help you neglect about all of the unhealthy stuff occurring, particularly the sweeping layoffs at Xbox which might be placing hundreds of individuals out of labor.
Clearly an replace on the Ghost Recon franchise, whose most up-to-date sport is now seven years outdated and was decidedly not nice (though it has gotten higher within the years since), would not have the hype heft of Fallout 5. However Ubisoft’s situation is dire, and typically the most effective gun is the one you’ll be able to attain.
My second and extra lasting impression, nevertheless, is considered one of annoyance, and I will inform you why. After a number of seconds of pondering this Ghost Recon replace, I believed to myself, maybe there will even be information on Splinter Cell! In spite of everything, Tom Clancy is Tom Clancy, proper? Laborious males doing disagreeable issues for freedom and stuff. The Ghosts, the Rainbows, the Echelons—it is all Clancyverse beneath, proper? And if anybody in that gang is overdue for some consideration, it is Crew Splinter Cell.
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Ah, however they aren’t all the identical, at the very least not in the way in which that issues for the time being. I popped round to the Splinter Cell X account and located a Ubisoft fortieth anniversary retweet from earlier in July, a half-dozen 2025 posts (principally in regards to the Splinter Cell animated collection on Netflix), one retweet from 2023, and a relative flurry exercise from 2022. I believed for a second that will correspond to the announcement of the Splinter Cell remake, however no: That was really introduced in 2021, imagine it or not. (Trace: Consider it.)
The 2022 exercise marked the twentieth anniversary of the primary Splinter Cell sport; it was additionally the 12 months that remake director David Grivel left Ubisoft for “a brand new journey.” He is had sufficient time since then to work on Battlefield 6, then return to Ubisoft and resume directorship on the Splinter Cell remake.
In that very same stretch we have additionally seen Netflix make its Splinter Cell cartoon with out Michael Ironside, the Splinter Cell film starring Tom Hardy get cancelled, and Ubisoft making everybody mad by posting the incorrect image of Sam Fisher, which I genuinely assume was intentional as a result of at this level it is clear that Ubisoft simply will get off on screwing with us.
After all, this is not an issue distinctive to Splinter Cell. Think about the Sands of Time remake, which was cancelled after six years of futility, or Cranium and Bones, which got here out six years late, or Past Good and Evil 2, which is able to quickly have a good time 20 years of non-existence. Timeliness simply is not Ubisoft’s robust go well with, which is how we received right here—”right here” being the latest announcement of a “quieter 12 months” in Ubisoft releases earlier than issues begin taking place in 2027-28—within the first place.
One potential spot of excellent information, comparatively anyway: The twenty fifth anniversary of the primary Splinter Cell sport lands on November 18, 2027, a couple of 12 months and a half from now. Possibly Ubisoft simply actually digs huge anniversaries and has determined that at this level it would as nicely maintain out for a superb one earlier than it drops any extra Splinter Cell information. So there’s one thing to look ahead to. Within the meantime, we’ll let what’s cooking on this planet of Ghost Recon when it occurs.
