Rainbow Six: Tactics leaked way back in January 2026 as an upcoming tactics game in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six universe, and Ubisoft officially announced Tactics at Gamescom opening night, revealing details about the game and the game's trailer. Rainbow Six: Tactics will be a single-player, story-based title featuring operators from Rainbow Six Siege, and it is slated to launch in 2027.

Rainbow Six: Tactics will feature turn-based tactics gameplay akin to that of XCOM, which will demand that players use their surroundings and destructible environments to gain the upper hand and outsmart enemies in order to gather clues and take down a global conspiracy. Combat encounters will take place in a number of global locations, and players will have access to the same weapons, gear, tactical tools, recon gadgets, and breaching tools as are available to them in Rainbow Six: Siege. Ubisoft says that the game will have around 25 hours of total play time to complete the campaign.

PUBG: Blindspot launched at the beginning of February as a new 5v5 top-down shooter from the same studio and publisher as the original PUBG, but now, less than two months after the launch of the game, the developer, ARC Team, has announced that the new free-to-play tactical shooter will be shutting down on March 30, 2026. ARC Team says that, although the developers had tried to explore ways to improve the game based on player feedback, the studio is "no longer able to sustainably provide the level of experience we set out to deliver through Early Access."

PUBG: Blindspot has a fairly acceptable 72% positive rating on Steam, but player counts are rather low, with an all-time peak of just 3,251 concurrent players and a 24-hour peak of just 236 at the time of writing. PUBG: Blindspot is already delisted from Steam, and players will no longer be able to access the game. This is only one of a number of recent game closures, with other notable additions including Highguard and a number of other games that were in development, like those that recently got caught up in the Ubisoft reshuffle. Further, Riot recently laid off a number of staff from its 2XKO fighting game due to sustainability reasons, all of which seem to suggest that game studios are fighting for revenue more than ever and are unable to make it work long-term if their games aren't immediately successful.

Wardogs is a new massively multiplayer tactical FPS that has been in development at Bulkhead for a number of years. It puts players in all-out warfare in a massive 256 km² map with 99 other players split into three teams. On February 5, 2026, the game studio released a new gameplay trailer and a Steam Store page for the upcoming FPS, revealing some previously unknown details about the upcoming shooter. One of the major reveals is that Wardogs will use Easy Anti-Cheat, which may spell bad news for Linux gamers. EAC does have a Linux mode that developers can enable, and Team17, the publisher behind the game, is known for being Linux-friendly, but there is currently no guarantee that Wardogs will be playable on devices like the Valve Steam Deck, the upcoming Steam Machine, or any other Linux system out there. Minimum hardware requirements are fairly low, calling for an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 590, 16 GB of RAM, and either an Intel Core i5 8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3500, meaning it will likely be reasonably playable on a iGPU if playing at lower resolution and quality settings.

Aside from the confirmation of EAC, the Wardogs Steam page denies that the game is a battle royale or an extraction shooter, instead emphasizing that it's a "new tactical take on the all-out-warfare FPS genre that rewards decision-making, communication, and teamwork," all within a modern militaristic setting and a fully player-driven sandbox with destructible environments and building mechanics. The game will feature realistic graphics, vehicular combat, and it will give players the freedom to approach the game as they see fit. The upgrade system depends on purchasing gear, weapons, and vehicles from a store, and each player starts with $10,000, but earnings persist from match to match. The game format itself revolves around controlling a 4 km² zone located randomly on the map—the more players a team has in the control zone, the more points they rack up. Wardogs is slated to launch in 2026, but the game studio will conduct limited playtests ahead of launch.