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‘Rainbow Six: Siege’ Sweden Major will pit the best against each other

The biggest Rainbow Six: Siege tournament is about to go down.

The Six Sweden Major is coming up soon, and it’s looking like quite a stacked tournament. 

Teams from all four of Rainbow Six: Siege’s regional leagues will zipline and flashbang through fierce competition to figure out who the champions are. The group stage phase runs from Nov. 8 through Nov. 10, and the top eight teams will square off during playoffs from Nov. 12 to Nov. 13. Then, on Nov. 14, Grand Finals will go down here on Twitch.

Check out the snazzy trailer for the Six Sweden Major for yourself below. It’s not hard to see why Jesse Lingard is big on Rainbow Six: Siege, eh?

There will be 16 teams competing in the tournament — four from each regional league, to be specific. Let’s break these down a bit so you can see the all-star lineup, shall we?

Latin-American League:

  • FURIA Esports
  • Team oNe Esports
  • FaZe Clan
  • Ninjas in Pyjamas

Asia-Pacific League:

  • SANDBOX GAMING
  • Invictus Gaming International
  • Chiefs Esports Club
  • DWG KIA

North American League:

  • Spacestation Gaming
  • Oxygen Esports
  • Susquehanna Soniqs
  • DarkZero Esports

European League:

  • Team BDS
  • Team Empire
  • Team Vitality
  • Rogue

Yup, virtually every major esports organization involved with the Rainbow Six: Siege  scene is here. Good luck to everyone competing! It’s going to be a bananas tournament. 

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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A new ‘Splinter Cell’ might be in development at Ubisoft

Rumors are swirling about Sam fisher’s return!

That’s right, a new mainline entry in the Splinter Cell series is in development, Video Games Chronicle  reported Tuesday. 

According to Video Games Chronicle’s  two independent sources, this new Splinter Cell  is likely not being developed by Ubisoft Montreal — the studio responsible for fan-favorite entries Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory  and the original Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. However, it’s unknown as to which teams within Ubisoft are behind it. 

The report also claims there’s a chance this new Splinter Cell  might see an announcement next year, though the chances of that happening are slim as the game is apparently in the very early stages of production. 

There hasn’t been a mainline game in this in over eight years, with the last entry being Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist in 2013. 

There’s nothing else known about the alleged new Splinter Cell title at this time, but it’s safe to say fans have wanted this for a while now. After all, this series, along with Rainbow Six  and Ghost Recon  helped popularize the Tom Clancy brand within video games. So it’d be great to see it come back! 

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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50 Cent’s ‘Blood On The Sand’ video game was originally a Tom Clancy title

One of the strangest video games ever used to be much different.

50 Cent: Blood On The Sand might be the strangest video game tie-in ever, but what’s even more bizarre is it began as a Tom Clancy game, NME  reported Friday. 

Back in the good old days of 2009, when the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 were still wildly popular, a little game called 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand came out. Its story involved 50 Cent and his fellow G-Unit members perform a concert in an unspecified Middle Eastern country. And afterward, they’re paid in a diamond-encrusted skull because, of course. Then they get in shootouts with soldiers for some reason? How do you even begin to parse how ridiculous this plot is.

Darren Yeomans, a former Swordfish Studios developer that worked on 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand, claims it began as something much, much different — a Tom Clancy game. For over a year, that’s what the team worked on before everything changed. 

Publisher Vivendi “threw in a massive curve-ball,” Yeomans said to NME. “After throwing away several levels, months of work, and re-writing the script.” That’s how the project became 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand.

Check out this unintentionally hilarious trailer for 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand for yourself below.

Talk about a change in creative vision.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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