There's a rumour that M. Ironside didn't like playing the part of Sam Fisher. That he did it for the money. This rumour is backed up quite satisfactorily by interviews.

Be glad he did 4 good games as Sam Fisher.

It's over for me too.

Splinter Cell is like that pretty, curvy girl you used to romp with who became a Goth, covered herself in tatoos and then had 5 kids by 5 different guys. Now I hear she's taken up weightlifting, and is currently doing course of steroids.

She has the same name, but she's not the same girl. And though you'll treasure forever the days where you used to go for long walks in the countryside on a balmy summer's evening, and lie in a wheat field after mammalianshenanigans, and playfully argue about who loved each other the most, you know it's just something that'll never happen again.

Goodbye Splinter Cell. Thanks for good times. No, thanks for the great times. I hope you find what you're looking for. And I thank my lucky stars you never got a chance to give me any unpronouncable diseases. 

Cover-based shooters reach a bigger audience than sneaking around in the shadows, listening to NPCs have conversations, and shooting lightbulbs. So yes - I think it's all about money.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

But I do miss the stealth gameplay of Splinter Cell, Pandora Tomorrow, and Chaos Theory. I haven't played a Splinter Cell since Double Agent (which I thouroughly enjoyed). And I won't if it continues down its current route.

I think I'm in the minority though. It's just one of those things. 

Good idea. Publishers have a hard time getting their games to run on the PS3's architecture. Boycott games and instead of getting buggy, frame-rate-issue piles of poo, you'll get...nothing at all.

Yeah, you're right.

Now I have to go and watch Eraserhead.

There are plenty of women and children out there. I predict the Wii U, as bad as it looks, will do just fine.