Ubisoft's Rainbow Six: Siege will focus on breach-and-clear operations

LOS ANGELES — Ubisoft has unveiled that one of its next major games will be Rainbow Six: Siege, a video game that pits special forces soldiers against terrorists in close-combat, breach-and-clear operations such as hostage rescues. Here’s some details that the company didn’t talk about at its press conference today.

The game will surprise close followers of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six counter-terrorism shooter franchise. That’s because Ubisoft has acknowledged that it has formally canceled Rainbow Six: Patriots and rebooted its efforts to make a next-generation console game. The company made the announcement at its press conference for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big trade show in Los Angeles. But we got details from the development leaders at press event. The game will come out in 2015.