Tom Clancy Studio Red Storm Entertainment Is Reportedly Stopping Game Development
Red Storm Entertainment, known for its work on the Tom Clancy series of video games, is reportedly ending game development, with 105 people using their jobs as a result, according to VGC.
Based in North Carolina, the company will operate in a support capacity for IT and Snowdrop, but Ubisoft today announced internally that all game developers within the studio are being laid off.
Red Storm Entertainment was established in November 1996 by novelist Tom Clancy himself alongside Doug Littlejohns, and was acquired by Ubisoft in 2000. Its first title was Tom Clancy’s Politika, a Risk-style game released for the PC and Macintosh in November 1997. Further titles under the Tom Clancy brand followed, including 1998’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, 1999’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, and 2001’s Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon.
The studio’s last titled that it shipped was Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR in 2023, and in July 2022 saw an untitled Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell VR game scrapped for Oculus Quest, followed by the cancellation of Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland in May 2024.
Ubisoft’s decision to end game development at Red Storm Entertainment is presumably the result of its recent announcement of a major company overhaul, which saw six games cancelled (including Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake) and a further seven titles delayed. In related news, the publishing giant is also being sued by ex-Assassin’s Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté for over $1.3 million for ‘constructive dismissal.’
[Source – VGC]
