No, Rainbow Six Quarantine isn’t releasing in March

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Quarantine will not be released on March 21, despite Ubisoft’s list of Connect services on that date. Ubisoft Connect The website had started listing the game for PS4, Xbox One, and PC on March 21, 2021 (screenshot below). However, a Ubisoft spokesperson confirmed to IGN that this date is incorrect. The cause of the error is unclear.

Rainbow Six Quarantine is currently slated for release only during Ubisoft’s 2021-22 fiscal year (April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022), after being officially delayed, with Far Cry 6, in October of last year. Some had taken the Ubisoft Connect date to mean that the game’s release had been quietly advanced, but sadly, that wasn’t the case.

First announcement at E3 2019, Quarantine is a spin-off of Rainbow Six Siege, and in particular its popular limited-time Outbreak event. The 3-player PvE game will see squads of Operators undertake the creations of a deadly new parasite, using FPS reflexes and tactics to survive.

The game was originally scheduled for early 2020 but experienced two delays, one end of 2019, and another in 2020. The most recent delay was equal directly to workflow issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The name and its associations probably aren’t of much help right now either.

In addition to Quarantine and Far Cry 6, Ubisoft now has a Star Wars game in development at Ubisoft Massive, which will mark the start of a “long-term collaboration” between the French developer-publisher and Disney.

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