Ubisoft Revives Splinter Cell with New Steam Achievements for 12-Year-Old Game

Great news for fans of Sam Fisher: Ubisoft has not forgotten about the Splinter Cell franchise. In a recent update, they've added Steam Achievements to the 2013 release, Splinter Cell: Blacklist. This move comes after the last significant update on the Splinter Cell Remake in 2022, where IGN met with Ubisoft Toronto developers to discuss their design philosophy behind the game.

Overnight, Ubisoft quietly updated the achievement list for the 12-year-old Splinter Cell: Blacklist on Steam. Ubisoft announced: "Agents, we are pleased to announce that Steam Achievements are now available for Splinter Cell: Blacklist!"

These achievements will be "retroactively earned for the accomplishments already completed in your game," but you'll need to boot up the game at least once for this to happen. "Once synced, the previously unlocked Ubisoft Connect achievements will be automatically unlocked on Steam," the team added.

Interestingly, Ubisoft chose not to include the additional 19 online achievements available on consoles. This decision ensures that players can still achieve 100% completion on Steam.

The beloved stealth-action series is set to make a comeback with the Splinter Cell Remake. While details are scarce, we know the new version will be built from scratch using the advanced Snowdrop engine. Creative director Chris Auty shared insights last year, stating, “20 years later, we can look back at the plot, the characters, the overall story of the game [and] make some improvements — things that might not have aged particularly well. But the core of the story, the core of the experience will remain as it was in the original game.”

In other Ubisoft news, the company recently established a subsidiary based on its Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six brands, with a €1.16 billion (approx. $1.25 billion) investment from Tencent. This follows the announcement that Assassin's Creed Shadows surpassed 3 million players. Ubisoft has faced challenges with high-profile flops, layoffs, studio closures, and game cancellations leading up to Shadows' release. With the company's share price hitting an all-time low, there's significant pressure on Shadows to succeed.