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Rainbow Six Siege fan designs Among Us skins that should be canon

If you're a multiplayer games fan, you've probably heard of Among Us by now. InnerSloth's space-themed whodunnit has become more than a little popular recently, with the Among Us player count hitting 1.5 million concurrent crewmates and impostors earlier this month. It's even caught the attention of some creative fans - such as one who's imagined an impressive Rainbow Six Siege-Among Us mash-up.

Twitter user Hanjosi has posted a bunch of concept images giving an idea of what all the best Rainbow Six Siege Operators would look like in Among Us, starting with Capitao, IQ, Tachanka, Ela, Zero (Sam Fisher), Alibi, Ash, and Mozzie, which you can see below. The concept's impressively faithful to both the indie game's distinctive, cartoon-like artstyle and the spirit of the Rainbow Six Ops - they're immediately recognisable, from Capitao's, er, cap, to Ash's dark FBI kit.

Hanjosi's also imagined what it would look like if Mozzie and Gridlock were paired up in the game as pals, along with a look at Montagne, Rook, Doc, Twitch, and Lion in the art style, too.

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US Navy under fire for streaming Among Us with inappropriate player names

The US armed forces' Twitch channels can't seem to stay away from controversy at the moment. Ever since the US Army started banning users asking about war crimes in chat, its presence on Twitch has been placed under the microscope. Now, that scrutiny has been intensified after one serviceman was caught streaming Among Us with inappropriate player names.

Observers first noticed the issue when an emergency meeting was called in-game during the stream, which took place on September 12. Two players had the handles 'Nagasaki' and 'Japan 1945,' references to the atomic bombs that were dropped on two Japanese cities at the end of World War Two. If that wasn't enough, a third player using the black crewmate skin had the tag 'Gamer Word,' a phrase often used to replace the N-word online.

It's unclear if the players with the offensive names were serving members of the US Navy, but they were "close friends" of the streamer and played with him for about an hour.

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Someone has created an Among Us and Brooklyn Nine-Nine mash up

Fridays are for watching the clock run down, planning weekend adventures, and writing about someone who finds a way to bring Among Us and Brooklyn Nine-Nine together. Artist Patri Cruz did just that by recreating one of the TV show's best scenes through animation with Among Us' bean bods front and centre.

The Brooklyn Nine-Nine scene the Among Us fan creates features Jake Peralta trying to find the killer of someone's brother. The only problem is, the victim didn't see the person's face. The only identifying detail is that he was singing along to The Backstreet Boys' banger I Want It That Way. To separate the guilty from the innocent, Peralta has each man in the line up sing a line from the song. It's a grand old time until they remember that one of them is a murderer.

The show's crime-solving premise lends itself to Among Us. The sleeper hit is a whodunit were several of you try to perform menial tasks around a map while one or two people creep about and try to take you out. Once you stumble across someone's wet work, you call an emergency meeting to find out who the killer is.

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Shroud "doesn't love" Among Us, but thinks it's "pretty fun"

Michael 'Shroud' Grzesiek has mainly been streaming Valorant since his triumphant return to Twitch, but he recently tried a game of Among Us and shared his thoughts and strategies on the latest Twitch craze.

The game actually released two years ago, but has recently picked up steam due to its heavy streamability, going from an average of 500 channels for the past few months to over 1,000 for last week alone. With big names like Shroud playing, Among Us' popularity appears to still be on the rise as more players discover this hidden gem.

Among Us is a murder mystery set in space, where the crew must complete basic tasks to keep their ship running. The only issue is, one of the crew is not supposed to keep the ship running, but is instead supposed to murder the other crew members by way of sabotage.

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Among Us reaches 1.5 million concurrent players

If you've looked at the top games on Twitch or the Steam concurrent player charts lately, you might've seen an unfamiliar name: Among Us. Originally released back in 2018 by indie studio Innersloth, Among Us is a multiplayer title similar to party games like Mafia. It's had a modest following of players over the years, but has exploded in popularity since June - and now the player count for Among Us reaching astronomical heights.

Over the weekend, the Among Us reached 1.5 million concurrent players across its Steam, iOS, and Android releases, as the devs announced on Twitter - there's full cross-play between platforms, so those players are all part of the same pool. On Steam alone, Among Us peaked at 166,685 players on Sunday, September 6 - a number to rival that of anything but Steam's three biggest games.

During its first year of release, a typical Steam player peak for Among Us was around 10, as SteamDB shows. That ballooned into a few hundred in 2019, but it wasn't until June 2020 - alongside a number of high-profile Twitch streams - that the game started reaching into the thousands, then the tens of thousands, and now the hundreds of thousands.

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