Rainbow Six Siege Kicks Off Week-Long Free-Play Event And Slashes 80% Off Steam Price 6h3d22

Lock and load operators because Rainbox Six Siege is free to play for the next few days with no restrictions and no strings attached. Free trial players will be able to duke it out with those who own the game and those who don’t on any game mode and map until March 21, all you need to do is link [...]

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Rainbow Six Siege Isn’t Getting A Sequel Or A Remake Because It Just Won’t Be The Same 1t241a

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Rainbow Six Siege is turning nine years old this year. Naturally, the question on everyone’s minds is when bwork will start on a sequel, especially with the team-based shooter’s aging Anvil engine. Unfortunately, the answer is never. It’s not because the game isn’t popular, but because the team doesn’t want to risk ruining something that’s already working by porting everything [...]

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Rainbow Six Siege Matchmaking Bug Is Dropping PC Players Into Console Lobbies mx38

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A new bug in Rainbow Six Siege is wreaking havoc among console players as they find themselves in a turkey shoot against PC players. Obviously, this is an unfair advantage for those on PC who end up absolutely dominating the match due to the lack of aim assist on console versions of the tactical first-person shooter. Since crossplay was enabled [...]

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Ubisoft Files Lawsuit Google And Apple To Court Over Alleged Rainbow Six Siege Clone 6b1c5k

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French video game developer and publisher Ubisoft has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google and Apple for allegedly ignoring the publisher’s request to remove Area F2 from their respective stores, a game that Ubisoft says is a “near carbon copy” of Rainbow Six Siege. “R6S is among the most popular competitive multiplayer games in the world, and is among [...]

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Rainbox Six Siege Bans Players For Crashing Matches Using A Chat Symbol Exploit z6w2m

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Spamming a player’s chat window with a whole load of symbols is a good way to throw someone off their game, especially in competitive shooters like Rainbow Six Siege. Apparently, it’s also a good way to cause a player to lag at just the right time and even crash the match. Naturally, griefers abused this bug to no end over [...]

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Rainbow Six Siege Starts Insta-Banning Players For Hate Speech 4l5qr

Ubisoft has just upped the ante in their fight against what it labels toxic behavior. Players are now receiving instant, automated bans for using racial slurs and other offensive language. One took to twitter to complain about his ban for saying the word 'nibba' in text chat: The automated ban kicks in instantly once a forbidden word or phrase [...]

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Steam Sales: Ubisoft Catalog And Killing Floor 2 Free Weekend 1b336g

It's Thursday, which means that it's time for Steam's weekend deals. This weekend, Ubisoft's entire catalog is on sale and there are some good deals on a number of the company's pseudo-MMOs. Highlights from the sale are as follows. For Honor, which was released about a month ago, is discounted to $49.79. Steep is discounted to $29.99. Don't forget that [...]

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Rainbow Six Siege Half Off During Free Weekend 721j5i

If, like me, you have yet to play Ubisoft's tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege, you're in luck. From now until February 5th, you can play the game for free as part of a free weekend that is currently going on on Steam. All progress made during the free weekend will carry over to the full version, should you decide to [...]

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World Of Warcraft Is September's Second Most Played Game According To Newzoo 1521z

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Newzoo has released a new report detailing the "Most Played Core PC Games in September" and there are a few interesting notes included. While it hasn't knocked League of Legends out of its #1 most played spot, the release of Legion saw World of Warcraft shoot up three ranks, knocking Minecraft, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Hearthstone down one place each. While [...]

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Starter Editions: The Buy-To-Play FPS's Answer To Free-To-Play? 442132

It feels like I hear the same question every time a new buy-to-play multiplayer-only FPS is released: “When is this going free-to-play?” So far, with the exception of Team Fortress 2, the answer to that question is always a resounding “never”—not that the fact is stopping people from asking when Overwatch is going free-to-play. I’ve begun to wonder if there isn’t [...]

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