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Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Readies Free-Play Weekend

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege will be available to play for free from February 15 to 20. Interested players can join the more than 25 million Rainbow Six Siege player community on all consoles and Windows PC via Uplay and Steam.

Players who try the game during the free weekend can carry over their progress and continue to play uninterrupted if they purchase the game (except on the Starter edition).

The first content from Year 3 Season 1, Operation Chimera, will be available on PC through the technical test server starting February 19 and will launch on all platforms on March 6. Meanwhile, the new co-op mode Outbreak will be playable on PC through the technical test server starting February 20. Outbreak will then be available on all platforms from March 6 to April 3.

Operation Chimera will mark the beginning of the third year of Rainbow Six Siege. Two new operators, specialists in biohazard situations and playable in adversarial multiplayer, will have to face a major threat in the game’s first co-op event, Outbreak.

Additional details on the content of Operation Chimera and Outbreak event will be unveiled during the Six Invitational finals happening in Montreal on February 16-18. Be sure to tune in on https://www.twitch.tv/rainbow6 to learn more about the two new Operators and Outbreak event update.

The full details and timing of the free weekend are available here: www.rainbow6.com/freeweekend

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John Breeden II

As a journalist John has covered everything from rural town meetings to the U.S. Congress and even done time as a crime reporter and photographer.|His first venture into writing about the game industry came in the form of a computer column called "On the Chip Side," which grew to have over 1 million circulation and was published in newspapers in several states. From there he did several "ask the computer guy" columns in magazines such as Up Front! in New Mexico and Who Cares? in Washington D.C. When the Internet started to become popular, he began writing guided Web tours for the newly launched Washington Post online section as well as reviews for the weekend section of the paper, something he still does from time to time. His experience in trade publications came as a writer and reviewer for Government Computer News. As the editor of GiN, he demands strict editorial standards from all the writers and reviewers. Breeden feels the industry needs a weekly, reliable trade publication covering the games industry and works tirelessly to accomplish that goal.