Last week, my friend and colleague Matt Cabral wrote up an excellent preview of Hitman Absolution for Kotaku. I was given the same demonstration as he by IO Interactive and Square Enix this week at CES and couldn’t agree with him more – the game is going to be absolutely bloody fantastic.
I can’t think of another game so destroyed by its dialogue as Splinter Cell: Conviction; not by bad lines alone (which are nothing novel in gaming) but by the way Ubisoft’s designers and programmers used them.
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Friendly reminder: Splinter Cell Conviction’s first downloadable content package, Deniable Ops Insurgency hit PC and Xbox Live marketplaces today. Ubisoft would also like you to know that another 250 achievement points are now available with the DLC.
Ubisoft is giving Splinter Cell Conviction a surge of fresh Deniable Ops, pricing and dating the Xbox 360 and PC game’s first batch of downloadable content for next week.
As a longtime public radio listener, I often imagined Corey Flintoff as someone resembling Willem Dafoe. Turns out he looks a lot more avuncular. Famous game characters likewise bear little resemblance to their voice actors.
Do you have what it takes to get a review published right here on Kotaku? Timothy does, as he suffers early onset arthritis from all that crouching.
Let’s find out who won that Splinter Cell: Conviction Xbox 360 console bundle and five runners-up copies of the game.
You’ve seen all the food and poop-related entries you sent us to our Splinter Cell: Conviction giveaway. Now let’s take a look at some of my favourite entries that weren’t quite good enough to claim a prize.
