In case you hadn’t noticed, Rainbow Six Siege’s fourth season of its incredibly successful four years in the business launched yesterday. Called Shifting Tides, it’s been live on the Test Servers for a while (even giving us a glimpse of the local servers in their testing phase). Now Shifting Tides is live proper on all platforms. Shifting Tides makes some …

When Rainbow Six Siege was first announced, many older Rainbow Six players were upset that the game seemed to focus entirely around PvP multiplayer. That may actually have turned out for the best, because even though it seemed like Rainbow Six Siege was released to die, Ubisoft did what Ubisoft does, and supported it extensively, delivering one of the best tactical multiplayer shooters of the generation. The game is still getting substantial support, and – aside from an often toxic player base – is still worth playing.

After an Easter Egg was found in the latest update of Ghost Recon Wildlands, Ubisoft has clarified that they will be announcing something new at the end of this week. It should come as no surprise that Ubisoft will be releasing a new Ghost Recon game in the near future. With the success of Ghost Recon Wildlands, selling over 1.6 …

Detailed in Operation: Let’s Get Some O’ That Sweet Sweet Chinese Cash, Ubisoft explained earlier this month how Rainbow Six Siege would be toning down its environments by removing any reference that contained blood, sex or gambling within it, lest the Chinese censors cross their arms and refuse to classify the game for release within the borders of that nation. That mission has been aborted, I repeat abort the mission.

When you’ve got the licenses to everything Tom Clancy, a brand that encompasses everything from Splinter Cell to The Division, it’s a kick in the teeth not to see the more extreme politics of today tackled in video game form.

In Rainbow Six Siege, fighting fire with superior firepower has resulted in a new ally joining the cause: Scotland Yard’s very own Clash, whose primary trick is that she can bring a massive shield into a fight.

With Rainbow Six Siege sitting comfortably on 35 million players worldwide, now is a good time for Ubisoft to announce what’s next for its trailblazing tactical shooter. The next major content drop is Operation Grim Sky, bringing two game-changing Operators and extensively reworked map in the form of Hereford. Veterans should be pumped for this. Newcomers… it’s about time you got yourselves on board! Here’s what we learned about Operation Grim Sky from Ubisoft, along with an insightful chat to R6 Community Developer, Craig Robinson.

Ubisoft has been looking for a way to curb that toxic behaviour, and in a new blog post it looks like the developer and publisher may have evolved a system that it has been testing since last month.