Rainbow Six Siege: news and videos

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...

Several weeks ago, we reported on Ubisoft's plans to make alterations to its strategic online shooter Rainbow Six Siege. These aesthetic changes would remove bloodstains, sexual references, gambling references and skulls from Siege's maps, ...

Ubisoft has announced that the latest content update for their strategic online shooter Rainbow Six Siege is now live in the game's PC test servers. Operation Wind Bastion, like Siege's previous seasons, brings new operators and locales to ...

The next two Operators have been revealed for Ubisoft's intense multiplayer title Rainbow Six Siege. Kaid and Nomad are headed to the wall-smashing shooter as part of Siege's next update; Operation Wind Bastion.Officially revealed yesterday...

[Soulbow's ongoing inside joke is that he likes Rainbow Six Siege and some of the community sandbag his favorite game. So this is me officially breaking the sandbag, if at least for just a day. Because here, he describes a typical game so w...

Ubisoft has announced that they will be altering some of the maps in their twitchy, tactical team-shooter Rainbow Six Siege, removing various references to gambling, violence, sex and even skulls.In a story I thought I'd dreamt until I got ...

This weekend saw the Paris Major take place in France for competitive shooter Rainbow Six Siege. As part of the long weekend of peeking round corners, controlling cute cameras, and falling through walls like The Shockmaster, Publisher Ubiso...

Ubisoft has released a teaser trailer for the second Operator coming to Rainbow Six Siege's upcoming seasonal content; Operation Grim Sky. This time it's a new attacker, going by the call-sign "Maverick".Maverick is a young American merc wh...

As Ubisoft's multiplayer shooter Rainbow Six Siege prepares to unveil the details on its upcoming Operation: Grim Sky seasonal content, the publisher has dropped a new video giving us a teasing look at one of Siege's new Operators.Morowa Ev...

Ubisoft's ubi-popular online military shooter Rainbow Six Siege continues to enthrall its mammoth community with its exciting brand of highly-tactical shooter action. For those of you still on the explosive-laden fence, a new free trial wil...

Ubisoft's tactical-military shooter Rainbow Six Siege has started to tease details of its next season, bringing with it new Operators and the first "Map Rework", a ongoing commitment by Ubisoft Montreal by change the balance of certain stag...

Earlier this year, the developers of Rainbow Six Siege declared their intentions to clamp down on both hate speech and cheating in their popular military shooter. It seems that so far their efforts are not in vain, particularly the latter a...

Rainbow Six Siege just won't slow down. Two months ago, we reported that it surpassed 30 million players. Since then, it has grown by another five million as Ubisoft announced Siege is at 35 million total players. The esports com...

Today sees the launch of the latest seasonal update to Ubisoft's super-tense tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege; Operation Para Bellum goes live today bringing with it a host of new features and balance changes.Of course the best part of ea...

Operation: Chimera, the first season in Year Three of Ubisoft's Rainbow Six: Siege is now live, meaning a selection of your favourite counter-terrorist operators can now go zombie-killing in limited-time event, Outbreak.Outbreak is a three-...

Like many online shooters... Well, like all online games in general, Rainbow Six Siege has its fair-share of rude, offensive, shouty players. The anonymity of the internet turns everyone into a tough guy, right? Regardless, Ubisoft have ann...

After a steady influx of new players across its second year, Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege has solidified itself as one of the most popular online titles of the current day. The pro-league of the squad-shooter culminates in the annual Six Inv...

With Rainbow Six Siege currently boasting over 25 million players across three formats, the squad-based shooter is preparing to deliver a third year of content. Not bad for a game whose suspiciously inaccurate E3 introduction saw it become ...

Do not adjust your night-vision goggles. That header image is, in fact, a shot from the latest DLC for squad-based shooter Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege. You would be forgiven for thinking a Levi-clad demi-woman with branches for arms mig...

Today at the Rainbow Six Invitational tournament in Montreal, publisher Ubisoft revealed two new Operators heading to the door-kicking shooter as part of the Rainbow Six Siege's next wave of DLC. Lion and Finka are coming in March as part o...

The weekend of February 16 will see the best Rainbow Six Siege teams gather for the Six Invitational tournament, as the best of the best shoot it out in the twitchy, high-intensity shooter.In order to celebrate the weekend's festivities, Ub...

Ubisoft's in the middle of a long tease about a new mode to Rainbow Six Siege called "Outbreak." As we noted last week, it's a PvE limited-time event where players try to fend off some sort of infestation. While still playing coy, Ubi...

Speaking on the game's official twitter, the Rainbow Six Siege team have suggested that the tactical shooter is in line for PS4 Pro and Xbox One support in the future.Though no specific details were given, Ubisoft responded to a fan, statin...

Ahead of the start to Rainbow Six Siege's third year, Ubisoft has revealed something that feels very different. It's a new mode called "Outbreak" and it's not exactly about acting as a counter-terrorism unit. It looks more like it's about b...

Rainbow Six Siege was pretty great at launch, but Ubisoft's willingness to smooth it over and add to it over time has kept me playing it. Now it's in its 4.1 patch, which brings about a long-awaited change for servers -- now they're 60hz on...

Speaking on their official blog this weekend, Ubisoft announced that breach-and-clear shooter Rainbow Six Siege has passed the milestone of 20 million registered players, with around 2.3 million users playing each day."Our community is grow...

Great news for gamers everywhere today, as it's confirmed that Rainbow Six: Siege is definitely getting that range of chibi figurines we were all waiting on.The "SIX Collection" consists of five figures. Each of the cute lil' guys and gals,...

Rainbow Six: Siege, the online shooter which sees hostage negotiation ring with a shotgun blast, has received an update implementing an all-new reward system.The loot crates, or "Alpha Packs" are randomly distributed to players following ma...

The PC gaming winter sales are live and launched, so the question you have to ask is: it the optimal time to join the ranks of the ever-growing Rainbow Six Siege crowd? (Hint: yes). Price-wise, we're seeing the best Siege deals on the marke...

Ubisoft is making the rounds with a survey relating to the future of Rainbow Six Siege. The questions were shared on reddit by user ABOP-OPAB, and the very first one regards a "future season pass." While this is far from a confirmation, the...

The latest Rainbow Six Siege patch introduces custom matches for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Update 2.1 had already been deployed across PC last week, but an update on the official Ubisoft forum thread now confirms the patch is now live for...

Rainbow Six Siege has been out on PC for a little while now, and has been happily chugging along with merely very, very high definition textures. Somehow, it has been getting along just fine with only 1080p visuals, which we all know is sub...

Ubisoft will not tolerate players who kill off their own teammates in Rainbow Six Siege. Replying to a fan tweet that asked if there were plans to "to do anything about trolls that kill people on their [own] team," the developer warned that...

On the fence about Rainbow Six Siege? Next week, a'splode a man-sized hole through that fence and then through the side of the house and then through the floor. Blow your indecision to smithereens. Ubisoft's holding an open beta next week ...

Rainbow Six Siege releases on December 1, but Ubisoft wants people playing well into 2016. In a post over on the Ubiblog, the studio shows off its Year One Roadmap and details its plans for downloadable content. In the wake of consumer unre...

Just like being knocked out for too long, having a gun shot right next to your ear is, like, super bad for you. Rainbow Six Siege needs to show some consideration for its hostages because tinnitus is no joke. A little hearhole protect...

If you've been having difficulty joining the Rainbow Six Siege beta (*cough* which is everyone *cough*), I bring good news -- the beta is being extended until October 4, 2015. The extension also heralds a Double Renown event, which as ...

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege will not feature a traditional single-player campaign. Speaking at EGX this weekend, Ubisoft's Scott Mitchell, the art director on Rainbow Six Siege, confirmed the game's focus is on multiplayer, with little i...

Last call! Another wave of beta testing is underway: We've been sent a cryptic grab bag of Rainbow Six: Siege Beta codes which you can redeem from the widget below (you may have to allow script tags, some browser extensions may block this f...

Ubisoft's upcoming improbable trailer dialogue game Tom Clancy Presents (RIP) Rainbow Six: Siege will miss its October 13 release date, the company announced. The closed beta will still start September 24, but the pushed back release will a...

Gustavo Fring, international meth lord, loves Rainbow Six Siege. That's what he said in this Ubisoft-released video wherein a handful of celebrities say a lot of nice things about the game. Maybe take this with a grain of salt or meth (not...

"Germany?" "That's...that's where we are!!!" [pulls pud over close ups of lil flags on the uniforms]

Ubisoft unveiled a new trailer for Rainbow Six Siege, and it will host actress Angela Bassett as "Six," the director of the Rainbow Unit within the game. This will be Bassett's first role in a video game. The "Terrohunt" mode is also ...

Microsoft announced today at its 2015 E3 press conference that Rainbow Six Siege, which launches later this year, will arrive with free copies of Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2. This is due in part to the backwards compatibility p...