After so many years of resisting the urge to do more with non-Clancyverse fictional characters than skin collabs, it looks like Ubisoft is about to break the glass with a full-fledged operator. At least, it's pretty hard to read into this in any other fashion.
Maybe if the reveal date in this 15-second teaser clip was April 1, I'd buy into this being a cross-promotional joke. But it isn't. It's February 15. So... yeah. I think Solid Snake is well and truly coming to Rainbow Six Siege.
Right now, there's not a whole lot to say, but on Sunday, February 15, that's poised to change dramatically. Metal Gear Solid's very own primary protagonist is heading to Rainbow Six Siege, Clancyverse be damned, I suppose. Which is bound to ruffle some feathers; after all, long-running live-service games (and even shorter ones) tend to "pollute" their universes, in some eyes, with ceaseless crossovers. Rainbow Six Siege has never really done that in the same way. At all.
But let's look at things more positively for a sec. For Konami, it's win-win; building back brand awareness following the Metal Gear franchise's big return in last year's Metal...
