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Read More »Ubisoft lowers its financial targets for 2019-2020 fiscal year
Ubisoft reverts decision to adjust Rainbow Six Siege’s art and visuals for Asian territories
Wants "to ensure that the experience remains as true to the original artistic intent as possible"
Read More »Ubisoft is ‘adjusting art and visuals’ to get Rainbow Six Siege ready for Asian territories
Plans for a "single, global vision"
Read More »George ‘King George’ Kassa on joining up with Rogue, and the state of Rainbow Six Siege
It’s been a whirlwind month for George ‘King George’ Kassa. Last month, Kassa and his team departed Vertical Gaming after repeated financial disputes, where the team claimed “non-stop lying” had dissolved the relationship between the team and the organisations co-founder. The team were planning to compete at Gamescom as an …
Read More »Big changes are coming to Rainbow Six Siege’s casual and ranked map rotation
Ubisoft are making another big change to the world of Rainbow Six Siege, with several maps being taken out of the rotation for both ranked and casual matches. The ranked rotation will contain the same nine matches as are contained in the competitive season’s playlist, with season three’s map pool …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege hitbox change gets rid of those pesky earmuffs
Rainbow Six Siege’s 2.2.1 update is now on the technical test servers ahead of its launch tomorrow, and the big change is that you can’t shoot the GSG operators in the headgear anymore. It’s part of a two-step hitbox restructuring, with Ubisoft revealing in a blog post on their website …
Read More »“The idea is that we are here to stay, and Operation Health is essential for that,” says game director Alexandre Remy
Rainbow Six Siege was a phoenix from the ashes, a stellar FPS game that missed its audience upon its December 2015 release, but was subsequently “discovered”, with the amount of concurrent players rising with each update, and a slow increase in the number of people playing near constant. There are …
Read More »Rainbow 6 Siege game director talks Glaz: perfect balance an important goal, but unreachable
In an interview with Esports Pro, Rainbow Six Siege game director Alexandre Remy spoke about the game’s recent shift towards a Glaz meta, responding to the recent community outcry over the Russian sniper by saying that a perfect balance is “an important goal to aim at, but also an unreachable …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege Pro League returns for year 2
Ubisoft has announced the return of the Rainbow Six Siege Pro League competition for its second year. This year there is a few changes to the competition, with the most notable being the switch to PC only. In the first year the Pro League featured both a PC and Xbox …
Read More »Rainbow Six caster Panky on his eSports journey and growing the scene
Christopher Pankhurst, better known as Panky to pretty much every one, has been around the eSports scene for some time. Things started out for him in League of Legends, where he enjoyed a stint working for Riot Games, before deciding to test the waters of freelance casting and streaming. Since …
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