Red Storm Entertainment, which was founded by Tom Clancy in the ’90s and developed multiple Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon games, is being gutted by Ubisoft and will no longer develop games. Instead, the long-running studio will now focus on IT and engine support as Ubisoft lays off over 100 Red Storm devs.
On March 19, as first reported by VGC, Ubisoft internally announced that all game developers at the North Carolina-based Red Storm Entertainment were being made redundant. As a result, 105 game devs are being laid off. Red Storm will now serve as an IT and Snowdrop engine support team for Ubisoft studios located around the world.
Kotaku was able to corroborate the details of the layoff with a source within Ubisoft. The move is part of Ubisoft’s global cost-savings plan. Laid-off employees will be supported with severance and career transition assistance. The source also confirmed that this move doesn’t change the fact that Ubisoft still has plans to develop more Tom Clancy games at its other studios.
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Founded in 1996 by author Tom Clancy, Red Storm would go on to develop games based on his famous books, like Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six. A few years later, in 2000, Ubisoft would buy up Red Storm and expand the Tom Clancy franchise to include more games based on his other books. The studio’s last Tom Clancy project was 2012’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
For the past decade, the studio has been mostly focused on VR games, like Werewolves Within and Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR. It was working on two Tom Clancy projects, a VR Splinter Cell spin-off and The Division Heartland. Both projects were cancelled by Ubisoft before they were released. Heartland was planned to be an extraction shooter-esque spin on the Division series set in the Midwest. It was canned in 2024, three years after its reveal. Meanwhile, the Splinter Cell VR game was announced in 2020 for Meta devices, but was quietly canceled in 2022.