The Splinter Cell remake Ubisoft announced in 2021 has a new director: His name is David Grivel, and if that rings a bell it might be because he was director on the project when it was first announced, but split—from the game and Ubisoft entirely—just under a year later.
Grivel said when he left Ubisoft in October 2022 that after 11 years at the company, “it is now time for me to go on a new adventure.” That adventure, according to his LinkedIn profile, took him immediately to Electronic Arts, where he spent a year and a half working on Battlefield 6 as studio design director at Ridgeline Games.
That came to an end when Ridgeline closed in early 2024 as part of major cuts at EA, and so Grivel tripped back to Ubisoft to work briefly on “an unannounced project in conception phase.” He left again at the end of 2024 to join Worlds Untold—just in time for that studio to fall victim to major cuts at NetEase.
If you’re hoping that Grivel followed that up with big news about the state of the Splinter Cell remake, sorry, but no—that’s the whole thing, start to finish. Which, wildly, means that Grivel’s return announcement is the first bit of news we’ve had about the game since his departure announcement three years ago.
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