Ubisoft Laying Off 100+ Staff and Ending Game Development at Ghost Recon Studio Red Storm Entertainment

Ubisoft has announced yet much layoffs arsenic portion of its ongoing outgo cutting program, with 105 unit present acceptable to depart seasoned Tom Clancy crippled workplace Red Storm Entertainment.

Founded successful 1996, the North Carolina-based squad antecedently worked connected galore Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six titles. More precocious the squad had developed respective VR games, contributed to the failed live-service shooter XDefiant, and spent years moving connected the now-cancelled free-to-play spinoff The Division Heartland.

Red Storm Entertainment is present being downsized permanently, IGN understands, and crippled improvement formally ended astatine the studio. The developer, which is acceptable to observe its 30th day aboriginal this year, volition stay unfastened — though simply focused connected behind-the-scenes method work.

This is the 3rd circular of layoffs astatine Red Storm successful arsenic galore years, pursuing the nonaccomplishment of 19 jobs past year, and 45 positions crossed Red Storm and San Francisco backmost successful 2024. Before these, and today's further 105 occupation losses, the institution employed 180 radical successful 2022 — a fig the institution has present decimated.

Ubisoft has chopped hundreds of unit and afloat closed galore studios successful erstwhile years, with 2026 already disconnected to a brutal start. In January, the institution canceled six games including its Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake and closed 2 Ubisoft studios wholly (Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Halifax), portion making layoffs astatine its bureau successful Abu Dhabi, astatine Trials workplace RedLynx and astatine Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora outfit Massive Entertainment.

Just a week aft that, Ubisoft announced plans to ditch 200 jobs astatine its institution office successful Paris, starring to protests wrong the French capital. Next, successful February, Ubisoft was forced to reassure fans that its long-awaited Splinter Cell remake remained successful improvement aft 40 jobs were eliminated astatine its workplace Ubisoft Toronto.

Across 3 decades, Red Storm Entertainment has worked connected much than 30 crippled projects, including the archetypal Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six released successful 1998 for the archetypal PlayStation and N64. The workplace past developed the 2001 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon for PS2, GameCube and Xbox, earlier contributing to galore further spinoffs and sequels.

Recent years saw the workplace go Ubisoft's VR crippled specialist, with the institution processing 2016 societal deduction crippled Werewolves Within, 2017's well-received Star Trek: Bridge Crew, and 2023's Assassin's Creed Nexus VR — a crippled that volition present beryllium Red Storm's last ever release.

The past mates of years person seen Ubisoft ditch respective work-in-progress projects earlier merchandise contempt years of work: a Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell VR game, and The Division Heartland, which was announced successful 2021 and confirmed to beryllium canned successful 2024.

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