Rather than sending out a bog-standard press release, Ubisoft decided to poke fun at the numerous delays of Splinter Cell: Conviction, sending out a pebble-sized rock to IGN with the title’s seemingly now-finalized release date. The title is now quite literally set in stone for an April 13 debut on Xbox 360 and PC.

IGN apparently didn’t catch that the joke that the rock was meant to signify at first, with their initial instinct being to break it open. Clumsy bunch over there, what else can we say.

Ubisoft Dates Splinter Cell: Conviction (Again) [IGN]

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