Making a game and then slyly using heavier themes to market said product means that Ubisoft can and should be criticised for their PR sleight of hand, because this is a company that knows all too well what will sell and how they’ll push it out so that all eyeballs will be focused on their product. Nobody knows this more than the Ubi-Boss himself, Yves Guillemot.

Could Splinter Cell even work in a sandbox environment that’s dressed up to the gills in microtransaction prods? Maybe or maybe not, but Ubisoft does have some sort of plan for the franchise. Chances are, you probably won’t like it.

It’s very nearly E3 time, and you know what that means! Conjecture, supposition and plain old wishful thinking in the form of rumours and leaks! We’ve already gotten our first major Ubisoft leak thanks to the untimely reveal of Ubisoft’s rollerblading game, Roller Champions. Now comes another, in the form of something called the “Ubisoft Pass Premium.”

When will Splinter Cell be revived? According to UbiBoss Yves Guillemot, it's a more a matter of when rather than if.

It’s that time of the year where the great big Triple-A publishers release their financials for the quarter, talking about how much money they made in one breath, while firing close to ten percent of their workforce with the next. It’s Ubisoft’s turn at bat with an earnings report, but I’m happy to say that while the company has also had an increase in earnings, it hasn’t sent anybody to the unemployment line.

Speaking at Gamescom, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has confirmed that there won't be a new Assassin's Creed game in 2019 as the company seeks to continue supporting Odyssey

Ubisoft predicts that the introduction of the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X has made true next-generation consoles wait, and they don't see them coming out in the next two years.

Five Ubisoft executives have been fined for selling stock just before the delays of two major titles in 2013.