Microsoft celebrates its busiest weekend ever largely attributed to the consoles recently released Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3 videogame. Over the weekend a total of 24,478 gamers signed into go head to head in gun blasting covert ops action. Microsoft reports counting 6,731 people simultaneously playing the latest hit from developers Ubisoft at one point during the weekend. Totals for all games on the Xbox Live service show up to 83,652 players signing in and spending a total of 262,268 hours playing.

The recently released Tom Clancy Rainbow Six 3 is developed by Ubisoft, creators of chart topping names like Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon: Island Thunder. With upcoming games such as XIII, Ubisoft has once again flexed its muscles and shown itself to be a major player in the Xbox lineup and welcomed supporters of the Microsoft Xbox Live service.

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