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 Connect service listing on that date. Fans noticed that the Ubisoft Connect website started listing the game for PS4, Xbox One, and PC on the 21st. March 2021 (screenshot below). However, a Ubisoft spokesperson confirmed to IGN that this date is incorrect. It is not known what caused the error.

Rainbow Six Quarantine is currently only slated for release during Ubisoft’s 2021-22 fiscal year (April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022), having been officially delayed, along with Far Cry 6, in October of l ‘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 announced at E3 2019, Quarantine is a spin-off of Rainbow Six Siege, and in particular its popular limited-time event Outbreak. 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 at the end of 2019 and another in 2020. The most recent delay was related directly to workflow issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The name and its associations probably aren’t of much help right now either.

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

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