Nature and causes of pay-to-win gamesPay to win policies have always been a sure-fire way to ruin the game experience for most of your player base and yet developers and publishers keep doing it. It may be profitable in the short term, but should and will they ever stop?MARCH 29
Rainbow Six Siege arms reticles are flawedNow you'd be forgiven for thinking that a 'slight misalignment', as Ubisoft calls it, between where you're aiming and where your bullets actually hit is not that big a deal, but we can't think of a bigger deal when talking about shooters.MARCH 28
Rainbow Six Siege Italian operators leakedRainbow Six Siege's first Season 3 update, Chimera was a large scale patch and as Ubisoft mentioned, today's patch should have been smaller, but the download size of 1.2GB was suspicious. Turns out it contained assets for the Italian ops.MARCH 20
How to get back into competitive gamesRevisiting competitive games after a break shows the decay of your skills like nothing else. Our reflexes are non-existent and our brain processes visual and audio cues at a crawl. So how does one get back into top competitive shape?MARCH 17
Rainbow Six Siege Pro League is underwaySeason 6 of the professional Rainbow Six Siege scene concluded with the record breaking Six Invitational 2018. After a brief pre-season period, professional play is kicking off today with season 7 of Pro League.MARCH 12
The Curious Case of Ubisoft game developmentUbisoft have made it a habit to design their games by way of apology. Most of their active cash cows were a yawn-fest on launch and improved later, grandiose apologetic gesturing included. Why not release a finished game to begin with?MARCH 12
Rainbow Six Siege will have reduced Renown costs for Year 3Rainbow Six Siege grinding is going to be a lot easier after 6 March 2018. Renown costs for the original 20 operators will be removed for all game editions except for Starter and attachments will be free entirely.MARCH 2
Rainbow Six Siege's latest issues from The Test ServerBalancing a video game is not an easy feat, especially when your game is both a booming eSport and a somewhat realistic tactical shooter. Rainbow Six Siege's balancing team is having some trouble, and players are having a blast with it.FEBRUARY 23
There won't be a sequel to Rainbow 6 SiegeRainbow Six Siege is getting a "games as a service" treatment. Ubisoft is currently more interested in the longevity of their title than in developing a sequel. Rainbow 6 Siege will get 100 Operators total. In-game loot boxes will be available for a limited time and only offer cosmetics.FEBRUARY 20
Rainbow Six Siege Outbreak face reveals, cutscenes and gameplayUbisoft is determined to keep Rainbow Six Siege fresh, to the point of adding a whole new game mode in co-op format for a four week long event. Outbreak also aims to create more character depth for the existing operators seen through cinematics.FEBRUARY 19
R6: SIege's new operators are pure attackersRainbow Six Siege seems to be like fine wine that just keeps getting better and the weekend behind us serves to prove it. On top of The Six Invitational main event, Ubisoft revealed the new operators, Outbreak gameplay and announced free operator unlocks.FEBRUARY 19
Rainbow Six Siege free weekendUbisoft is holding another free weekend for Rainbow Six Siege. The free weekend will start on 15 February 2018 and end on different days depending on your preferred platform. Owners of Rainbow Six Siege will soon start getting the game's third year of content updates.FEBRUARY 16