Sunday may have been the busiest day ever for the digital gaming platform, as the SteamDB reported that a peak of 18,801,944 players occurred at 6:20am PST on the holiest of days.

Ubisoft, developer and publisher of bad-ass tactical shooter Rainbow Six siege, is filing suit against a company they claim is selling services that disrupt their networks through DDoS. Though the suit names multiple people from across the globe, it was filed in a California court last week. The suit alleges that the defendants operate a site called SNG.ONE, which sells …

Rainbow Six Siege is as good as it’ll ever be thanks to Operation Shifting Tides introducing some much-requested new content, with the complete package being a superb showcase of action, strategy and half a decade’s worth of polish.

More than a year ago in a live stream, Ubisoft promised that Rainbow Six Siege servers would go live in South Africa. They were working on the information that Microsoft’s Azure datacentres would soon be deployed in the region, but that took a little longer than anticipated. Then, once they were finally available, the Azure datacentres were limited; used primarily for business cases.

The Fourth season of the fourth year of Rainbow Six Siege – Shifting Tides - has been live on the Test Servers for a while, and one of the most exciting things about the test is that it included testing the stability of South African servers. We’ve given it a go, and the experience is pretty damned great (except when people are hurling abuse at you, because boy are people toxic). Now Shifting Tides is live proper on all platforms – but that doesn’t mean that the local servers are. From what we know, they’re still being tested, so haven’t gone live alongside the new content. That said, the plan is to roll the servers out once testing is all done and Ubisoft can ensure a smooth local experience.

With an industry that’s obsessed with getting the most bang for buck with any new game, few live service games truly manage to rise above the obvious cash-grab trap and find themselves settling into a groove of establishing a community and then toiling away to create new content on a consistent schedule. That’s not to say that one such game doesn’t exist.

Just maybe mute the all the voice channels before you start your session…

As the Rainbow Six Siege Pro League Finals wrap up in Tokoname, Japan, Ubisoft’s ready to take the wraps off its new operators, and the updates coming to the game as part of the fourth and final season of Rainbow Six Siege’s Year 4 plans. It’s called Operation Shifting Tides, and while Ubisoft teased it yesterday, they’ve lifted the lid …