


Long known for its single-player gameplay, Ubisoft’s current approach and focus on live-services and monetization tactics may cause a scare for some Splinter Cell fans. Much of the worry with this game is not with Ubisoft’s silence but rather the company’s current approach and whether it will clash with the Splinter Cell franchise. At the time, it was confirmed that the game was still in the earliest stages of development and that the company was still hiring talent to make it happen. Tom Clancy fans finally had their calls answered in 2021 when Ubisoft announced that a remake of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell was in development. No matter what any “Blue Box employee” says, the developer has lost the faith of gamers, and it may be best to just exit with some amount of dignity intact. At this point, though, it doesn’t seem like the company can do anything to convince gamers that this is anything other than a hoax. Kahraman has since made his Twitter private as a result of online harassment, and Blue Box Studios has not commented on the investigation. Along with such reports, it was said that…hold your breath…Abandoned hardly exists as an actual video game.

With developer Blue Box Game Studios’ previous failed attempts at releasing games, to the supposed ties to Hideo Kojima, to never-ending associations and hints playing it up as a Silent Hill game, Abandoned has been a mess to follow that seems like it’ll never lead to a playable product.įollowing an indefinite delay in March, an investigation was done into the game’s “development” that painted director Hasan Kahraman as hosting toxic chat rooms while showing assets that were believed to have been used by Kahraman to trick gamers into thinking Abandoned was a new Silent Hill game. Admittedly, it might be punching down bringing up a game like Abandoned, but the entire development cycle of this game has been worrying.
