Everything you need to know about Rainbow Six Extraction: Trailer, release date and more

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(Pocket-lint) — It's not often that you get to trace the beginning of a game's development, but in the case of Rainbow Six Extraction that's entirely possible.

In 2018 Rainbow Six Siege got a limited-time mode called Outbreak where players in three-man fireteams got some fun objectives to complete in a setting blitzed by an alien zombie virus. It was great fun, and enjoyed such success that a standalone game was announced. Now, a couple years later, we're still waiting for it. Find out everything you need to know, right here. 

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Rainbow Six Quarantine (as it was then called) was first unveiled back in 2019 at E3, after the Outbreak event in Siege in 2018, with the promise of a release in early 2020.

That date is obviously far behind us in the rearview mirror, and seemed ambitious even then. After Ubisoft showed off the game extensively during E3 2021, we got a new release date of September 2021, but even that one didn't last too long.

Update: We are delaying the release of Rainbow Six Extraction until January 2022. We will use this time to ensure that we bring this immersive, cooperative, and thrilling experience to life as we prepare to bring you a truly unique Rainbow Six game. https://t.co/PuFYrYc3nG

The game is now slated to come out on 20 January 2022, with the latest delay coming to give the team more time to polish it up and make sure it's ready, which is something that we can all get behind.

However, there's an elephant in the room here — the game's title. Multiple leaks in early 2021 indicated that the game, at that point called Quarantine, was going to have its name changed for reasons that aren't particularly complicated. 

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