Ubisoft creative director discusses hooking fans again with Splinter Cell: Blacklist (video)

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Maxime Béland, creative director for Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist video game, is packing a lot into the next big installment in the Sam Fisher covert operative title. He’s bringing back Fisher’s cool black operations suit, his curved blade, and new technologies like an assassination drone.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.