Ubisoft Ends Development At Tom Clancy Studio Red Storm

Ubisoft is ceasing crippled improvement astatine its studio, Red Storm Entertainment, champion known for its activity connected nan Tom Clancy’s series. While nan workplace is group to stay open, 105 group will beryllium laid off, a Ubisoft root told GamesIndustry.biz.

Those who past nan cull will reportedly proceed to activity connected nan Snowdrop engine, utilized successful galore of Ubisoft’s tentpole games complete nan past decade, including Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora more recently. Red Storm had been moving connected an untitled Splinter Cell VR crippled that was canceled successful 2022, arsenic good arsenic nan also-canceled The Division Heartland.

The workplace was co-founded by nan writer Tom Clancy himself successful 1996 (taking its sanction from Clancy's caller Red Storm Rising), and successful its 30 years has worked connected a ample number of Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six games, among others. It besides developed 2023’s broadly well-received Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR.

According to GamesIndustry.biz’s source, nan layoffs astatine Red Storm are portion of Ubisoft’s wider cost-saving reorganization, which has resulted successful sweeping occupation cuts and crippled cancellations crossed nan French publisher's portfolio.