Siege

Ubisoft has revealed Sens, the first non-binary operator to enter Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. Sens is an attacking operator that will be introduced as part of the game’s Operation Vector Glare expansion. According to their bio, Sens is a “brilliant tactician from Belgium with military experience and training in psychology.” The operator is the game’s third representation of the LGBTQ+ community, after Flores and Osa, who was the game’s first transgender character. A one-speed and three-armour attacker, Sens packs a…

Rainbow Six Extraction, first and foremost, is an extension of a well-established IP. Following early disappointment and massive amounts of developer support, Rainbow Six Siege — the series' online-only reboot launched in 2015 — has outlived all of Ubisoft's expectations and become a multi-year ongoing game (dubbed games-as-a-service in industry parlance). As of two Decembers ago after launching on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X, Rainbow Six Siege registered 70 million players across all platforms. On one hand, that's…