Paris, FRANCE – January 3, 2005 – Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, is pleased to announce that the book Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell has hit the New York Times’ Top 10 bestseller list for paperback fiction.

Ubisoft and a major motion picture studio located in Hollywood are currently discussing a possible movie rights deal that would adapt the adventures of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® for the big screen.

The first two games published by Ubisoft - Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow™ - have sold 9.7 million copies to date. The highly anticipated third opus, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory™, will be available this March on PS2, Xbox®, GameCube™ and PC.