The future of Rainbow Six Siege could be in little trouble

The team working on Rainbow Six Siege will be working from home in the next few weeks, and probably months, to prevent the spread of the infection. Will this lead to the downfall of Ubisoft's title?

Rainbow Six Siege is set to become a classic esport title next year. It was promised that the competitive season would last for nine months, with a break of two months before the World Cup, while the development team would focus on improving the playing experience. Therefore, the arrival of new operatives would be reduced to four instead of eight per year. But we may still have to endure major changes.

Reason? The coronavirus pandemic already known to everyone. Rainbow Six Siege's official Twitter profile has issued a statement saying the development team will work from home. All the updates that have already been made are coming into play as planned. However, there is a very good chance that all future content will be questioned. It is quite clear that workers at home do not have the same equipment as at work and it is logical that there will be some problems.

The last major update was the arrival of the new season, and thus the entry into the fifth year of Ubisoft's title. New operatives and a redesigned map have arrived and several changes have been made, related to the gaming experience and certain patches. Two new specials are scheduled for release next season, while the last two will start releasing one each. Big changes are set to take place in the Rainbow Six Siege over the next year, and now they are in trouble.

The coronavirus pandemic is not calming down and it is a question of when. Because of this, many video game creators and publishers are forced to send people home to work from there, provided they have all the right equipment. In addition, conventions, esports competitions and conferences are canceled. On the other hand, staying home makes the gaming industry a growing interest in these difficult times.

The Bleeding Edge lunatics will be ready to fight soon

Next week, a multiplayer scam arrives on PC and Xbox One to counter some of the most bizarre weirdos you can imagine.

Watch Dogs and The Stanley Parable are free to share

A new round of free-to-play games has arrived at the Epic Games Store. This time it's a mix of hacking and philosophizing.

Thursday afternoon - nowhere else, everyone is obviously at the Epic Games Store. There's a new round of games to pick up for free, this time with the deadly serious Watch Dogs and the hilariously humorous The Stanley Parable.

Watch Dogs is, of course, Ubisoft's open-world game where you hack the world around you with your mobile phone. It's now six years old, and it's not the first time Ubisoft has given it to PC gamers - it was shared for free at the end of 2017.

The Stanley Parable is one of the indie pearls of the PC platform and a game that I recommend to anyone who loves unexpected stories and crazy narrative styles in games. This year, the game should get its Ultra Deluxe Edition with new content, but you won't definitely regret playing this 2013 original.

The next Call of Duty is reportedly a reboot of Black Ops

Unconfirmed rumors have emerged about Project Zeus - the new Call of Duty that will reportedly be the new start of Black Ops.

Although Call of Duty has already received a "new game" at Warzone this year, another of course is coming to us in the fall. And watch out now, it could be called Call of Duty: Black Ops. Yes, we know this game already exists, but after last year's CoD: Modern Warfare - nothing is impossible.

Basically, the famous rumor spread on The Gaming Revolution claims that the new Black Ops will actually be a return to the very beginning, or rather a reboot of the series. It will reportedly focus on the events of the Cold War and the Vietnam War. We will reportedly see the story from a number of different perspectives, including US soldiers and Viet Cong members. The characters Alex Mason and Frank Woods will return, but their voices will be lent to new actors.

All of this somehow coincides with the direction that Modern Warfare is already heading, and the direction that has been well received by fans. It wouldn't surprise us that this is true, because Modern Warfare and Black Ops are the only CoD series that have been well received - Advanced and Infinite Warfare have never been particularly popular anyway.

Avatar movie recording is paused

In the highly anticipated sequence of events, production of new films, and probably games from the Avatar series, was temporarily halted.

Unsurprisingly, the fear of the spread of coronaviruses further suspended the filming of the Avatar series. Producer Jon Landau confirmed this in the midst of filming in New Zealand alone. Avatar has thus joined many other films and series whose production was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

For Avatar, this could be an extra jolt as more than ten years have been waiting for the sequel to the first film, and it has been delayed so many times that even director James Cameron himself cannot keep up. Technically speaking, this may not have any consequences at all on the premiere date, as the movie should only arrive at the end of 2021. However, it should come as no surprise to us that all Avatars are ultimately moved in a year, and when we say all, then we all mean Avatar 5 which would then come in 2028 - who is alive, who is dead.

Otherwise, one should not forget that accompanying Avatar video games are in the pipeline. More specifically, one such is being developed by the Ubisoft Massive team, the creators of the Division Series. While this delay probably doesn't bother them much, it's to be expected that we won't see this game before we see the Avatar 2 movie.

A trailer has appeared that shows the end demo of the Resident Evil 3

The Resident Evil 3 demo is out tomorrow, but a trailer has already emerged that, among other things, reveals the return of one of the characters from Resident Evil 2.



The Resident Evil 3 demo officially leaves tomorrow at 5pm for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But it has already appeared in some markets, such as New Zealand. We've learned that an average of fifteen minutes of gameplay is played by a demo, and that Nemesis does indeed appear several times over that duration. The demo for Xbox One weighs 7.47 gigabytes.

At the end of the demo version, players are waiting for a new game trailer, and in the trailer some scenes that were not in the original game. If you do not want to discover anything earlier, best bypass the video below.

Echo is the new heroine in Overwatch

Two years after its first screening, a robotic heroine named Echo is about to join the cast of playable characters in Overwatch.

The PlayStation 5 console's specifications have been released, it's weaker than the Xbox Series X, but the disk is faster

Sony has announced the technical details of the hardware included in the PlayStation 5 console. By most specifications, the console is weaker than Microsoft's competitors, but has a faster SSD.

Sony held a rather dry "launch" of the PlayStation 5 console, from which we eventually pulled only the technical specifications. It is not surprising that this presentation was intended for developers at the GDC convention that was canceled due to the coronavirus. In any case, here are the most important hardware details of the console itself:

• CPU: 8x Zen 2 Cores @ 3.5GHz (Variable Frequency)
• GPU: 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs @ 2.23GHz (variable frequency)
• Memory: 16GB GDDR6 / 256-bit
• Memory bandwidth: 448GB / s
• Disk: Custom 825GB SSD
• I / O: 5.5GB / s (Raw), 8-9GB / s (Compressed)
• Extensions: NVMe SSD Slot
• HDD Support: USB HDD Support
• Scanner: 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive

Even if you don't understand the technical stuff, it's laymanlike to notice that the PlayStation 5 on paper is hardware-less than the Xbox Series X console in aspects of the processor running at a slightly lower clock speed, two teraflops weaker in terms of computing power, slower in bandwidth memory and has a smaller SSD capacity - 825 GB.

However, there is one thing where the PlayStation 5 is at an advantage, and that is the speed of the disc. While the Xbox Series X disk is capable of processing 2.4 GB / s of raw data, the PlayStation 5 is twice as efficient at 5.5 gigabytes per second. It's the same with compressed data, 8-9 GB / s on the PlayStation 5 and 4.8 GB / s on the Xbox.

The 825GB disk capacity is smaller than on the Xbox, but will be expandable with other NVMe drives. Interestingly, unlike Microsoft, Sony will not produce specialized PlayStation 5 expansion discs, but will be able to use * any * PCIe 4.0 NVMe discs ... as approved by Sony. However, some discs may not fit the PS5 console, such as those that come with their own coolers.

So, all in all, the numbers are technical on the Xbox side, but Sony emphasizes that the PlayStation 5 is a more capable machine than its 10.28 teraflops of power suggests. Regardless of the comparison, it is fairly strong hardware, so there is no doubt that the console will be competitive in the market. After all, a faster disk with less capacity and more flexibility in expanding storage could give Sony more benefits than harm - especially if the console is cheaper than the Xbox Series X because of this.