Time to find out how much of the months long rumours are true. Likely a lot better than you thought you already knew …

Having previously rocked up in Ghost Recon: Wildlands, Breakpoint and Far Cry: New Dawn, Rainbow Six Siege just seems like the next logical step.

Could Splinter Cell work as an open-world sandbox wherein Sam Fisher can ply his deadly trade? Absolutely, epsecially if Ubisoft looks at one other game that mastered the art of stealth, options and massive open areas to explore.

Ubisoft have revealed that Year Two of Ghost Recon Breakpoint will kick off with the return of Splinter Cell’s favourite operative, Sam Fisher. He’ll be joining the soldiers on the ground, to fight back against Not-The-Punisher, his mobs of cannon fodder goons and possibly the Terminator. What a time to be alive.

Ubisoft has delayed its long-in-development pirate simulator Skull and Bones until the next fiscal year, but that doesn’t mean that you won’t have brand new Ubisoft games to play over the next nine or so months. Between now and March 2020, Ubisoft has four great big AAA releases on the way.

In Ghost Recon: Wildlands. If you're reading this excerpt, you're far luckier than the people that I just suckered into this post with the attractive headline on our social media.

Splinter Cell is (along with Prince of Persia) one of Ubisoft biggest franchises that’s currently being ignored. It’s been five years since we last saw a game in the fabled stealth-em-up series, with the actually fantastic Blacklist was released on the last generation of consoles. It really is time for a new one. And a new one could be coming …

The Xbox One has added the best Splinter Cell game to its ranks. It’s Splinter Cell Conviction guys, Geoff and his Chaos Theory be damned. Conviction for life, now and forever. Back in 2010, this was the knees of the bees.