Rainbow Six Siege: news and videos

Recently I've been lamenting that Rainbow Six: Siege was a turning point in the way it presents itself. Gone are the days of being married to the stuffy spec-ops tactical gruffness aesthetic, and here to stay was a new age of goofy costume...

It looks like tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege is gearing up for its new season of bullet-pumpin' mayhem. Ubisoft released a teaser image for Operation Crimson Heist, which is expected to bring a brand new operator, a map rework, and seve...

Ever since Ubisoft announced that there would only be one operator released per season of Rainbow Six Siege, the team has been diligently reworking and re-balancing some of the more requested changes to the aging tactical shooter. Some like...

Ubisoft has taken steps to make sure that unwanted doorkickers cannot come abseiling into your Rainbow Six Siege private lobbies. A game known for its fair share of troublemakers, Siege PC player had recently found strangers brute-forcing t...

Now five years into its lifespan, Rainbow Six Siege is arguably more popular than it's ever been. After an admittedly stumbling debut, Ubisoft's intense multiplayer shooter has gone on to attract over 55 million registered players with its ...

It's a huge week for Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege. Not only is new season Operation Neon Dawn now live in-game, but the intense multiplayer shooter is now available for download on PS5 and Xbox Series X, launching a brand new generation of d...

Wealthy supporters of Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege now have a new way to showcase their love for deadly breacher Yumiko Imagawa - better known by her call-sign "Hibana" - in the form of a brand new premium statue, now available to pre-order ...

Well, we all had a good run. We attacked, we defended, we all did our very best. Sometimes you're the spawn-peeker, sometimes you're the spawn-peekie. Either way, it is now over for all of us, from Bronze rank through Champion. Kiss your lo...

This weekend, Ubisoft officially debuted the next event headed to its tactical multiplayer shooter, Rainbow Six Siege. As previously reported, Operation Neon Dawn will bring several reworks to the super-popular esports title, along with bra...

Ubisoft has teased the next operator heading to its twitchy multiplayer shooter Rainbow Six Siege. Arriving as part of the upcoming Operation: Neon Dawn event, Aruni will be the latest in a long line of  door-kickers to join Siege's ex...

Every Halloween, Ubisoft's multiplayer shooter Rainbow Six Siege likes to get into the spirit of the season with strange and usually horrific in-game events. But seeing as 2020 is a truly maniacal year, Siege's new event, "Sugar Fright," is...

Microsoft has announced that one of the finest shooters on the market, Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege, will be joining the Xbox Game Pass service for console and Android on October 22. Originally releasing to a so-so reception back in 2015, th...

[Update: To celebrate the new season, an animated short was produced showing Sam Fisher putting the youngsters through their paces.] I'm relatively new to the Siege community having only picked up the game earlier this year, but seeing as ...

The new season is now live in Ubisoft's tense multiplayer shooter Rainbow Six Siege. Operation Steel Wave brings with it two new operators, a classic map rework, and several small but significant additions to the floor-bustin', flash-bangin...

Stressful week? Fancy increasing the tension sevenfold? Then maybe you should dive into twitchy online shooter Rainbow Six Siege, which is free to play on all platforms this weekend.From today until Sunday, June 14, PS4, PC, and Xbox One us...

Ubisoft has released full details pertaining to the next season of first-person-shooter Rainbow Six Siege. Operation Steel Wave is the second season of Year Five, bringing new content and balance tweaks to the multiplayer title. The season ...

Rainbow Six Siege publisher Ubisoft has filed suit against Google and Apple for allowing a "near carbon copy" of the popular multiplayer title to be sold on the iOS and Android platforms.Area F2 is developed by Ejoy.com, a division of Chine...

More details are slowly being unearthed regarding Operation Steel Wave, the next season of Ubisoft's intense multiplayer shooter Rainbow Six Siege. A recent video surfaced online giving us a glimpse at Ace and Melusi, the two new operators ...

Ubisoft has teased the coming of the next season in its excellent multiplayer shooter Rainbow Six Siege. As noted on the game's Twitter account, Operation: Steel Wave will be the second season of year five, bringing new operators, maps, and...

The latest limited-time event in Ubisoft's multiplayer shooter Rainbow Six Siege is very, very different to events past. Now live on all platforms, The Grand Larceny replaces Siege's typical hostage-rescuin', bomb-defusin' action with a sce...

Ubisoft has set live its new Arcade Mode playlist in Rainbow Six Siege, which will bring fun rotational modes with wild 'n' wacky rulesets to the typically straight-laced shooter. The first mode is "Golden Gun," and runs from March 19 until...

Ubisoft Montreal has officially launched Rainbow Six Siege's first season of Year 5. Operation: Void Edge, which is available to download now on all platforms, not only brings two exciting new operators, but also a small selection of seemin...

Ubisoft Montreal has announced another free-to-play weekend for its high-intensity team shooter Rainbow Six Siege. Anyone wanting to get in on the action gratis can do so from Thursday, March 5, until Sunday, March 8, on PS4, PC, and Xbox O...

Right before the Grand Finals of last week's Rainbow Six Siege Six Invitational tournament, Ubisoft Montreal debuted a CGI mini-movie to culminate both Year 4 and the end of the recent in-game event "Road To S.I." The exciting clip not only...

This weekend was an absolute bonanza of exciting news for Rainbow Six Siege fans. We heard details of the upcoming Void Edge event, plans for Years 5 & 6, and mouths were left agape at the coming of Holy Tachanka. As if all this wasn't ...

Boy howdy, we've come a very, very long way since that infamously fantastical Rainbow Six Siege demo was first previewed at E3 2014. Since then, Ubisoft's tactical shooter has certainly prospered, as a fairly blah launch has since evolved i...

Among the Rainbow Six Siege community, there is perhaps no operator more quirkily beloved than Alexsander Senaviev - better known to the Siege faithful as Lord Tachanka. Having been present in Siege since launch, the Russian Spetsnaz operat...

Ubisoft's tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege is about to embark on its fifth year of operation in 2020, bringing with it new mechanics, modes, quality-of-life tweaks, and new door-smashing, head-popping operators. This week, at the Six Invi...

Happy Saturday, friends of Destructoid. I hope this week has found you and yours well and that you're all geared up for a neato weekend. Whether you have plans to party with pals, take a trip out of town, or just crash at home for a bit of ...

We're just a few days away from the biggest weekend in the Rainbow Six Siege calendar, as The Six Invitational grand finals will take place in Canada on February 14. Not only will fans get to see some amazing Siege players compete for the p...

In a new video posted to its YouTube, Ubisoft has announced that the original team behind Rainbow Six Siege finally feel that the time is right for them to move on to new projects, with the continued development and maintenance of the tacti...

In news I thought I'd dreamed, Ubisoft has revealed a bizarre new collaboration with indie outfit Nomada Studios, celebrating one year since the launch of Nomada's amazing adventure Gris by syncing it up with Ubisoft's own... Rainbow Six Si...

If you're one of the multi-million members of the Rainbow Six Siege playerbase, then you better start protecting your dome, as the final season of 2019, Operation Shifting Tides, is now live on all formats, bringing with it one of - if not ...

Anyone who fancies a weekend of boarding up windows, barricading trapdoors and "Fuzing" hapless hostages should jump on board Ubisoft's tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege, which is holding a free-to-play weekend ahead of the launch of new s...

During this weekend's Pro League Finals, held in Tokoname, Japan, Ubisoft revealed details on the fourth and final event of Year 4 in its tense tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege. Operation Shifting Tides brings two new operators into the f...

Ubisoft has filed suit against website Mizusoft, who it claims had sold "hundreds of thousands" of dollars worth of cheats to players of tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege.The Mizusoft site, owned by "J.V.L" (a pseudonym to protect the mino...

Following on from this morning's teaser, Ubisoft has released a new video and details regarding Doktor's Curse, a special Halloween event coming to tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege.Taking place between October 23 and November 6, Doktor's ...

The Rainbow Six Siege twitter has dropped an enigmatic image that appears to be teasing some Halloween content for Ubisoft's tactical shooter, which is more than likely, given themed events have appeared in-game during previous witching sea...

Fast food outlet KFC is certainly doubling down on the gaming news this week. Yesterday saw the legendary chicken outlet drop its own dating sim on an unsuspecting gaming world, while today sees the tease of a partnership with Ubisoft's tac...

Ubisoft has proudly announced that their ultra-tough team shooter Rainbow Six Siege shows no signs of holding back on the door-kicking and window-smashing just yet, having passed a milestone of 50 million players.First released back in 2015...

Ubisoft has spilled the beans on the next season for their tactical team shooter Rainbow Six Siege. Operation Ember Rise will - as with previous seasons - bring two new operators to the burgeoning roster of counter-terrorist characters, alo...

A few bad apples, that's all it takes. Some Rainbow Six Siege players have been extraordinarily frustrated this week because of a new exploit that kills the quality of their game. Ubisoft is in the midst of responding to complaints of ...

Rainbow Six Siege is one of the most popular multiplayer games in the industry today and it's showing no signs of slowing down. During Ubisoft's E3 press conference, the company announced season 13 of the game, titled Operation Phantom...

Ubisoft is continuing with its intentions to not release a sequel to its ultra-tactical team shooter Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. Speaking with British newspaper The Daily Star, the developer reiterated plans to support the 2015 title go...

Ubisoft's tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege continues to release new and exciting content to keep the twitchy shooter fresh and engaging well into its fourth year. A recent video reveals details of the two new door-kickers joining Siege's ...

Boy howdy, Rainbow Six Siege is an unforgiving game... and I'm not just talking in its twitchy, insta-death gameplay. When playing the tactical shooter, especially "with randoms" (to use the kidz' vernacular), you're basically at the mercy ...

Like Blizzard's Overwatch, Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege has pretty deep lore and backstory to its roster of counter-terrorist heroes, despite the game's campaign-free concept. And, like Overwatch, said lore isn't overly-apparent to anyone wh...

We are right on the verge of Rainbow Six Siege' biggest annual competitive event, The Six Invitational, which takes place in Canada next week. Developer/publisher Ubisoft has also started dropping hints about the tactical shooter's next in-...

Players logging into Ubisoft's tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege over the Holiday period will bag themselves a special "Holiday Pack" (Siege's variant on in-game loot boxes) containing a free Operator that is yet to join your roster of hea...

Ubisoft has announced the premiere of an upcoming film about their roof-raising, wall-breaking, window-smashing shooter Rainbow Six Siege. The documentary about Siege's esports scene is set to launch at a series of special screenings in Jan...