Siege

Rainbow Six Siege is a game that can "last forever," according to Ubisoft. Speaking to PC Gamer, Siege's creative director Alexander Karpazis said that the team and tools of today can still ensure the future longevity of the 9-year-old game."I can confidently say that we have probably one of the best engines in the world when it comes to live PvP shooters," Karpazis said in response to whether or not Ubisoft's online shooter needs a sequel. "The team is incredible, and we have a huge engine pipeline team…

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege creative director Alexander Karpazis has shut down talk of a sequel to the online tactical shooter. Despite being released in 2015, Rainbow Six Siege still has a huge playerbase, with over 100,000 concurrent players logging in over the weekend (via SteamDB) and regular updates from Ubisoft.  However, Karpazis has no interest in a sequel. ​​”I can confidently say that we have probably one of the best engines in the world when it comes to live PvP shooters,” he said at the 2024 Sieve…

California’s coast bore the brunt of an atmospheric river, a heavy corridor of moisture in the air that came to ground in the form of some diluvian rains. Atmospheric rivers are becoming somewhat routine on the West Coast, as moisture from the tropical Pacific turns into a “Pineapple Express,” rolling in from the west and wreaking havoc across California.Heavy winds and rain are causing widespread damage on the California coast, inundating roads and causing mudslides. According to the National Weather Service, more than…

The management philosophy known as DEI, which had gathered momentum since 2020, has been under siege over the past year because of a collision of legal, economic and geopolitical forces. The Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in colleges, removing the legal rationale buttressing many diversity programs. An expected slowdown in the economy prompted companies to cut jobs and financial support for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. And the Israel-Hamas war and college presidents’ responses to antisemitism…

Monday’s court ruling that Google created an antitrust market with its app store threatens to upend the $500-billion-a-year app store economy, which has evolved into a profit machine for Appleand Google that helped define the smartphone era.A jury unanimously sided with Epic Games, saying that Google had harmed the videogame maker by maintaining an illegal monopoly. Google said it plans to appeal the verdict and stands by its business model. In a separate case that concluded in 2021, a federal judge largely ruled against…

A new operator has been revealed for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 that looks extremely similar to a character from Rainbow Six Siege, and the creative director of Siege has noticed. One of the new operators (playable characters available in Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Call Of Duty: Warzone) is named Dokkaebi, who is described as being a “skilled spy and robotics engineer” in an official Call Of Duty blog post talking about the new playable character. Rainbow Six Siege also has a character named Dokkaebi, who…

Rainbow Six Siege is getting a skin marketplace where players can buy and sell skins amongst themselves a la Counter-Strike.According to PC Gamer, all the transactions on the store will be with R6 Credits, Rainbow Six Siege's premium currency. It's unknown whether skins will have set prices or if players can set or negotiate prices amongst themselves. In theory, the restriction to R6 Credits means that the marketplace will be separate from Ubisoft's NFT initiatives. PC Gamer attended a press briefing…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of archaeologists from Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Antiquities Authority has found a way to reconstruct a fire in a single building in Jerusalem burned by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. In their study, reported in Journal of Archaeological Science, the group analyzed magnetic signals in shards of pottery recovered from the site to learn more about…

Yanni Ouahioune, the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege player alleged of directing a SWAT unit to Ubisoft Montreal in 2020, has been sentenced in a Paris court. The Montreal Gazette reported that the 22-year-old has been sentenced to three years of community service, and that the ruling also comprises charges related to a DDoS attack on a French government office and on Mojang (the developer of Minecraft). In November 2020, the City of Montreal Police Service responded to Ouahioune’s phone call claiming that there was an…

Rainbow Six Siege is continuing to take steps to combat cheaters and toxicity, and according to Ubisoft, many of the steps the developer has taken thus far are already working wonders.In a blog post titled "Player Protection Updates - Year 8 and Beyond," Ubisoft has detailed its continued efforts to reduce cheating and toxic behavior, something it calls as one of the top complaints for the shooter genre as a whole. Two of those efforts, the MouseTrap detection system and QB anti-cheat features, appear to…