Splinter Cell: Conviction Date Set In Stone
Seriously, in stone.Published 04/02/2010 at 11:00.
By Kris L [raen].
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I’m excited for Splinter Cell: Conviction. Really, really excited, especially after the super-sneaky preview I got a look at when I went to the EuroGamer Expo. The game looks fantastic to be honest, so I was saddened when Ubisoft confirmed that the title was being delayed from its original February release.
Thankfully it seems that Ubisoft haven’t let the whole thing get them down too much, and in a joke that IGN originally missed have confirmed the date by sending the whole IGN crew stones with the new released date etched into it. That’s right the date is now ‘set in stone’ for April 13th.
It’s nice to see developers poking fun at themselves in this way, I prefer it to them taking everything everything far too seriously.
Of course it sucks that the Conviction release slipped, but these things happen and it hopefully it will lead to a more solid title. Oh and for those of you who, like me, realise that games development is still a business this puts the titles release firmly inside the 2010-11 financial year.
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nofi | 04/02/2010 11:02
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Jolly good.
hazelam | 04/02/2010 11:15
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reminds me of those balls from minority report.
and who in america decided they should write the date that way?
what person in history decided they should have the month THEN the day and lastly the year?
makes no sense.
Raen | 04/02/2010 11:27
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I think it’s to do with how you write dates. Personally I’m more likely to write ‘April 13th’ than ‘The 13th of April’. When you translate to numbers it makes sense. Not saying I like it though
hazelam | 04/02/2010 11:39
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it’s just i’ve always wondered and never actually found a definitive answer.
and for me i’d usually put the day first when writing it out like that.
i suppose maybe in america putting the month first when saying the date become the traditional way.
i suppose before globalisation and computers it didn’t matter much but it does seem a little anachronistic these days.
much of the global community uses the d/m/y way and with computers you would arrange the figures by the size of the unit, so d/m/y or y/m/d.
sorry for going so far off topic there :)
jimmy-google | 04/02/2010 11:41
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I tend to write 13 April – good job they picked a day higher than 12. The story could have looked very different with people thinking it might have been out back to December (if it had read 4.12.10).
a inferior race | 04/02/2010 11:53
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I think it should be y/m/d. As that is how write hours minutes and seconds and our number system is based on writing the biggest first.
hazelam | 04/02/2010 12:03
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either y/m/d or d/m/y but because you’re going from largest to smallest or vice versa, the us way mean they put the middle one first then the smallest then the biggest.
i seem to have hijacked this article.
you can go back to talking about splinter cell now :)
cc_star | 04/02/2010 12:16
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13th of April is how I say and write it, and that is the English way,
gawd knows why the founding fathers of America got it confused on their journey across the Atlantic
hazelam | 04/02/2010 17:16
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all the rum probably :)
that was a staple of sea voyages back then wasn’t it?
teflon | 04/02/2010 19:03
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So many of the differences in language and what have you between the UK and the US are simply because when they got their independence they went bonkers and got people to rewrite the dictionary and stuff.
The whole date thing makes the least sense of anything they changed. They should either have stuck with how the rest of the world writes it, or changed it properly so that it’s YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS. Course, they didn’t really think it through properly. Too many tea parties.
jonny_bolton | 04/02/2010 13:18
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Probably waiting while they finish off the PS3 version. Exclusive you say? No such thing!
skibadee | 04/02/2010 20:10
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I hope it hits PS3 at some point.
SIR-DARK-HAZE | 04/02/2010 16:11
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