Ubisoft Remembers Splinter Cell Exists By Adding Steam Achievements to a 12-Year-Old Game

Good news, Sam Fisher fans: Ubisoft has confirmed it inactive remembers Splinter Cell exists by adding Steam Achievements to 2013's Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

While our past meaningful update astir the Splinter Cell Remake came successful 2022 erstwhile IGN met with Ubisoft Toronto developers to sermon their plan doctrine down the game, overnight, the developer softly updated the accomplishment database for the 12-year-old Blacklist connected Steam.

Ubisoft said: "Agents, we are pleased to denote that Steam Achievements are present disposable for Splinter Cell: Blacklist!"

The achievements volition beryllium "retroactively earned for the accomplishments already completed successful your game," though for that to happen, you request to footwear up the crippled astatine slightest once. "Once synced, the antecedently unlocked Ubisoft Connect achievements volition beryllium automatically unlocked connected Steam," the squad added.

As good arsenic taking the clip to adhd achievements that tin beryllium "retrospectively earned," the developer chose not to adhd the further 19 online achievements disposable connected consoles to guarantee radical tin inactive 100% the crippled connected Steam.

The stealth-action bid is acceptable to sneak backmost into enactment with a remake of the classical archetypal crippled successful the franchise, Splinter Cell Remake. We inactive don't cognize precise overmuch astir it different than the caller mentation volition beryllium built from the crushed up utilizing the precocious Snowdrop engine.

“20 years later, we tin look backmost astatine the plot, the characters, the wide communicative of the crippled [and] marque immoderate improvements — things that mightiness not person aged peculiarly well,” said originative manager Chris Auty astatine the time. “But the halfway of the story, the halfway of the acquisition volition stay arsenic it was successful the archetypal game.”

Last month, Ubisoft created a subsidiary institution based connected its Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six brands, with a €1.16 cardinal (approx. $1.25 billion) concern from Chinese megacorp Tencent.

The quality came aft Ubisoft announced Assassin's Creed Shadows had passed the 3 cardinal subordinate mark. Ubisoft suffered a fig of high-profile flops, layoffs, workplace closures, and crippled cancellations successful the tally up to Shadows' release, and determination is tremendous unit connected it to win aft the company's stock terms deed an historical low.

Vikki Blake is simply a reporter, critic, columnist, and consultant. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.