Gaming News - November 2006

San Francisco, CA (November 14, 2006) - Today Ubisoft announced the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas Challenge, an online video game tournament sponsored by Gamestop and EB Games, Future U.S., Inc. and Dodge.

From Ubisoft:

The tournament kicks off December 27 and will pit four-player teams against each other to battle it out in the exciting Vegas locations featured in the highly anticipated first-person shooter Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. The tournament will be held on the Xbox Live online game service and will culminate in an online championship on January 28, 2007. The winning player will take home an all-new 2007 Dodge Nitro.

"The Rainbow Six franchise revolutionized the way people played console games online and it remains one of the hottest franchises on Xbox Live,” said Tony Key, vice president of marketing at Ubisoft. "Ubisoft is thrilled to be bringing its partners and the Rainbow Six fan base together to celebrate the launch of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas with this very exciting online tournament.”