Ubisoft has reportedly approved a new Rainbow Six: Vegas game, according to Insider Gaming, whose editor Tom Henderson says it is in early development under the codename Spades. Ubisoft has announced nothing, so treat the details as unconfirmed.
The Vegas series began in 2006 and got a direct sequel in 2008. Since then Ubisoft has put out more than a dozen projects in the wider Rainbow Six world, but nothing under the Vegas name. The sources say that has changed recently.
Ubisoft Montreal is spinning up three new projects, one of them the Vegas title. Nothing is known about the other two, though the sources point to a second Rainbow Six game. On what the Vegas game will be, they lean towards a new entry, Vegas 3, rather than a remake, but that is still unclear.
The timing follows Ubisoft’s move a year ago to put some of its best-known series into a new subsidiary, Vantage Studios, in which Tencent holds a 26.32% stake. Vantage looks after Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six. The same reporter says he could back up recent rumours of two new Assassin’s Creed games, which our post on Assassin’s Creed returning to ancient Rome covered last week.
The first Vegas game sold and reviewed well, and its follow-up reached players only a year later, in 2008. That quick turnaround is part of why the pause since 2008 stands out.
Development cycles are much longer today, and the reporter puts any official reveal several years out. Nothing on platforms or a release window has surfaced.
