The French publisher (which hasn’t been very successful lately, and that’s putting it mildly…) is reportedly going to announce the next episode of the Rainbow Six franchise in the near future…

Rainbow Six Siege is one of Ubisoft’s Live Service games that has been running for an unusually long time, having been released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on December 1st, 2015, followed exactly five years later by a native PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series port (there was a Google Stadia version, but you’d be looking in vain for the version released with the service on June 30th, 2021…). It has a stable player base and the game director of the French publisher has previously stated that no sequel will be made, but it seems that the opposite is true.

The new R6 game is called Rainbow Six A***

— Shiny🦋 (@Shiiny77) September 27, 2024

On Twitter, Shiny, one of the leakers and modders of Rainbow Six Siege, wrote that the next installment of the franchise will be called Rainbow Six A*** (so presumably it will be a four-letter episode, starting with A…) After that, the public inquired in vain, as Shiny did not provide any further details. A few guesses: AWOL, Atom, Aces and Ares – the four words that came up most often…

I hope you guys are ready for tomorrow

— Shiny🦋 (@Shiiny77) September 29, 2024

And then yesterday Shiny wrote that we should get ready for today, so there could be an official announcement about the next Rainbow Six episode later today. Considering that Ubisoft pulled out of exhibiting at the Tokyo Game Show at the last minute (and canceled the Assassin’s Creed Shadows trailer they had planned for the press, and also pushed the game to February 2025…), maybe there really is something coming, and considering that the leaker is considered reliable for the franchise, maybe we’re not reporting information out of thin air.

A new episode of Rainbow Six is likely to be released for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PC, possibly Amazon Luna, and perhaps a successor to the Nintendo Switch could be considered as a target platform. But this is all speculation, as nothing is official yet…

Source: GameRant