It's been more than a decade since there was a proper Splinter Cell game. So when Derek Kolstad, a writer best-known for creating the John Wick series, approached making the new animated Netflix adaptation, he treated it as if the story continued as the games were dormant. "I wanted to do it almost like the timeline kept going since the last game," Kolstad tells The Verge. At the outset of the show, called Deathwatch, the iconic Sam Fisher finds himself in a new phase of life: "Retired on a farm in the middle of nowhere, surprised that he's survived." Of course, it's not long before things go wrong.Deathwatch sees this newly settled versio …Read the full story at The Verge.