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Rainbow Six: Siege eclipses $1.1 billion in bookings and 45 million players

Ubisoft said today that Rainbow Six: Siege has grown to more than €1 billion ($1.12 billion) in cumulative net bookings since the game’s release in 2015.

The game’s player base has also topped 45 million, up 40% from the same time a year ago. Overall, Ubisoft said it has more than 100 million active unique players on its PC and console games (this does not count players of Ubisoft’s mobile games).

Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, said the company has grown its employee base from 5,000 a decade ago to 15,000 today.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.