Ubisoft are ending game development at long-time Tom Clancy studio Red Storm with 105 staff laid off, according to reports

Studio won't beryllium unopen down, but volition lone bash tech enactment doing forwards

Ubisoft person reportedly laid disconnected each of the crippled developers astatine Red Storm Entertainment, with the long-time Tom Clancy workplace being repurposed from a spot wherever games are developed to a spot that conscionable provides behind-the-scenes tech support. 105 unit person mislaid their jobs successful this downsizing, which follows the cancellation of Red Storm's The Division Heartland successful 2024.

This is according to reports from VGC and IGN with the erstwhile noting Ubisoft announced the quality internally today, March 19th.

Rather than shutting down Red Storm, the publishers person opted to downsize the North Carolina-based workplace by ripping retired each of their crippled improvement innards, leaving a ammunition that'll supply planetary IT and Snowdrop motor support.

Founded backmost successful 1996 by Tom Clancy himself, Red Storm developed a laundry database of classical games based connected the author's books - including 1998's Rainbow Six and 2001's Ghost Recon. Both of those evolved into long-running bid pursuing the studio's acquisition by Ubisoft successful 2000. Following the merchandise of 2012's Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Red Storm went disconnected connected a lengthy detour into the VRsphere, making the likes of Star Trek: Bridge Crew and Assassin's Creed Nexus VR.

Two of their astir caller works were moves backmost towards their Tom Clancy roots, but some a Splinter Cell VR crippled and The Division Heartland being canned earlier they could spot the airy of day. It's a genuinely depressing extremity for a workplace with specified an illustrious past and who've contributed truthful overmuch to the FPS genre implicit the years.

Ubisoft person been ruthlessly gouging distant astatine their studios and games this twelvemonth arsenic portion of immoderate firm restructuring, unleashing a raft of cancellations, delays, and closures successful January. Strikes person followed amid occupation cuts astatine the Assassin's Creed publishers.

Solidarity and champion of luck to the 105 devs affected by these Red Storm layoffs.