Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against a website that allegedly distributes denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against its Rainbow Six: Siege servers.

As reported by Polygon (thanks, VG24/7), the website concerned sells tiered plans to clients looking to "test" the robustness of their website security, but a screenshot taken by the Ubisoft of the website reportedly shows the services are abused and lists the servers of "Fortnite, FIFA 20, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 as potential targets".

The lawsuit - which was filed in Calfornia late last week - lists a number of individual defendants and accuses the site owners of being "well aware of the harm" their services cause, saying the "defendants have gone out of their way to taunt and attempt to embarrass Ubisoft for the damage its services have caused to [Rainbow Six Siege]".

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Rainbow Six Siege's big esports shindig, the Six Invitational, is due to take place next month. And in the run-down up to its 14th February start date, Ubisoft is holding a special, limited-time Road to Six Invitational in-game event, unlocking all 52 Operators for play.

The Road to Six Invitational event, which is already underway, runs for five weekends (spanning Thursday to Sunday) and sets players loose across a brand-new map called the Stadium.

Themed around a repurposed 70s sports arena, originally created to host a series of commonwealth games, the map is intended to be a high-tech training area of sorts, where participants engage in simulated, non-lethal combat. It features bulletproof glass to "create new situations where you can see your opponents without being able to engage".

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Ubisoft has brought an end to Rainbow Six Siege's fourth year with one last season update. It's called Operation Shifting Tides and it's out now on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

Shifting Tides' headline addition comes in the form two new medium-speed, medium-armour Operators - Kali, an Attacker hailing from India, and the Kenya-born Defender Wamai - bringing Rainbow Six Siege's full Operator roster up to 52.

And if it's a bit of backstory you're looking for, Ubisoft explains that the pair "met in the NIGHTHAVEN Special Intervention Company, a private military group owned and led by Kali."

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Ubisoft has revealed the full details of the fourth and final season of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Year Four. Making the announcement today at the Pro League Finals in Tokoname, Japan, Operation Shifting Tides see "an entirely reworked Theme Park map" and brings two new operatives, Kali and Wamai.

Having met in the Nighthaven Special Intervention Company - "a private military group owned and led by Kali - the former is an Attacker from India, whilst the latter, Wamai, is a Defender from Kenya.

Kali is equipped with a CSRX 300 sniper rifle that can "breach barricades and hatches in a single shot" and her gadget is it's under-barrel, the LV Explosive Lance, "that destroys all gadgets on both sides of breakable and reinforced surfaces". Wamai, on the other hand, "can attract enemy projectiles and have them detonate at its location". He can also "make Attackers' grenades and projectile gadgets useless, or better, turn them against their users".

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It's the time of year where game companies have their all-important earnings calls, giving us a glimpse into their future plans and what's been going well for them over the last quarter. We've seen PS4 sales figures from Sony, EA's plans for Battlefield, and now Ubisoft's cross-play dreams.

At the moment there are only two Ubisoft games that have cross-platform play; Brawlhalla and Just Dance's World Dance Floor online multiplayer mode. According to CEO Yves Guillemot however, this is something they want to be rolled out to more of the publisher's games in the future.

"Our goal is to put cross-play on all the PVP games we have, over time," he told investors during the earnings call. "That's well on the way."

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Ubisoft is suing a teenage Rainbow Six: Siege cheat-maker, claiming the company was forced to spend "enormous sums of money" trying to mitigate their impact on the game.

As reported by Polygon, Ubisoft's legal proceedings are aimed at MizuSoft, a company run by a minor referred to only as JVL in the lawsuit, and believed to be located in the Netherlands.

Ubisoft claims that MizuSoft has made "hundreds of thousands of dollars" by selling cheats that "[ruin] the experience for other players", violate its copyright, and encourage player to breach its terms of use and code of conduct.

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