By the power of Grayskull, it’s only the weekly Steam charts! These are the games which sold best on Steam last week.
It’s all gone a bit 2015-2016 in here again, I’m afraid, but fortunately cavalry of a sort arrives in the pendulous form of some big ol’ swingin’ dicks. … [visit site to read more]
New additions to Rainbow Six Siege‘s [official site] roster of MOBA-style classes can drastically affect the game’s meta. Each of the content patches released so far have caused shifts in the pro scene that have then trickled down into public matches. This Tuesday brings the next, called Operation Velvet Shell. It marks the start of Rainbow Six Siege’s Year 2 DLC and introduces two new classes to the game, Mira and Jackal, and a new map called Coastline.
I was able to play with all of it ahead of its release during a recent visit to Ubisoft. The update is focusing on the idea of a deep defence – an objective that’s protected by people in the objective room but also by those in the adjacent rooms – and continuing to move away from the current meta’s focus on ‘roamers’. With that in mind, let’s get to know these armed assailants. … [visit site to read more]
Rainbow Six Siege [official site] will kick off its second year of content updates tomorrow, February 7th, Ubisoft have announced. They held their big Six Invitational tournament over the weekend and took the opportunity to show off the new map and characters coming with Operation Velvet Shell (not a euphemism, unless you want it to be, in which case go right ahead tittering) and discuss plans for the year beyond.
My favourite of the new operators is Mira, who continues Siege’s avant-garde Changing Rooms> action by popping windows into walls wherever she pleases. Perhaps a future character will paint an accent wall and hang hideous drapes to distract enemies. … [visit site to read more]
Tom ‘Tom Clancy’ Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege [official site] is a regular returnee to the weekly Steam charts, and this here free weekender is gosh-darn likely to boot the old dear into the highest echelons once again. … [visit site to read more]
