LONDON, UK - 14th December, 2005 - Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® 4 (working title), the fourth blockbuster in the Tom Clancy Splinter Cell franchise, will officially be called Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent(tm). The game will be available Spring 2006 for the Xbox 360TM video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Xbox® video game system from Microsoft, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Nintendo GameCube(tm) system and Windows® PC.

Following the Tom Clancy Splinter Cell franchise tradition of innovation, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent will completely revolutionise and reinvent the spy action genre by introducing an unprecedented double agent concept and an entirely new breed of game play that adds an exciting new dimension to the gaming experience.

"Ubisoft is excited to have re-imagined the Splinter Cell franchise by introducing Sam Fisher as a double agent, expanding the depth of his character," says John Parkes, EMEA marketing director at Ubisoft. "Throughout the course of the story, gamers will be forced to make critical decisions which will not only affect how the story plays out but also have very different consequences."