Rainbow Six Siege

Rainbow Six Siege has had a rough start, but it has recuperated incredibly well, staying true to the tradition of Ubisoft games launching poorly and becoming better over time. It paid off, as the game has over 40 million players in total.

Ubisoft have released Y3S3.2 update for Rainbow Six Siege on PC, while console players should get it on 31 October 2018. The patch fixed a pile of issues, but there weren't many balance changes, despite the recent player complaints.

Ubisoft have announced a surprise sale on all Year One operators in Rainbow Six Siege. The sale reduces their cost by 40 per cent and will last for almost half a year. You read that right - the sale ends on 04 March 2019 for some reason.

Ubisoft have teased the upcoming Valkyrie skin on official Rainbow Six Siege Twitter, ahead of its release on 7 May 2018. The short video shows Valkyrie in a war torn city where she pops up with her favourite instrument - a camera.

Ubisoft have announced their war on toxicity on their developer blog, focusing on eradicating toxic behaviour from Rainbow Six: Siege. This includes several ways of dealing with toxicity, including incentives for positive attitude.

Crash Bandicoot set a record this week for most times at No1 in 2017 on the UK retail chart. Agents of Mayhem debuted at number four and City Skylines: PlayStation 4 Edition did better than its Xbox One counterpart, debuting at number 20.

AltChar's Player of the Month is a new monthly video series featuring best plays of AltChar's community. The best player of May is Purpletop. Check out our video to see his best plays. He also gets a prize, because that's how things go.

Ubisoft have posted their plans for Y3S3 patch in Rainbow Six Siege that is due on 18 September 2018. The new patch includes a description of new punishments for team killing in both Casual and Ranked queues, which will now be the same.

Ubisoft have nerfed Maverick, the new operator in Rainbow Six Siege who is not even on live servers yet. Apparently players found him to be too useful, so he got nerfed, along with several other operators, while some were buffed or fixed.

Ubisoft are taking no breaks when it comes to dealing with toxic players, cheaters and those paying cheaters to boost them in Rainbow Six Siege. They have revealed a new way to deal with the latter two, following anti-toxicity ban system.