Red Storm Entertainment, the game studio co-founded by author Tom Clancy and responsible for many games in the Tom Clancy video game franchise, has reportedly been gutted by a wave of layoffs initiated by parent company, Ubisoft.
Sources speaking to various media outlets claimed that 105 jobs have been cut from the studio, and that remaining employees will be transitioned to work on development of Ubisoft’s Snowdrop engine, or to support IT and customer relations.
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Red Storm Entertainment is one of the most tenured studios under Ubisoft’s ownership
The reported loss of Red Storm Entertainment, in its existing form, is fairly staggering. The studio was formed in 1996, as Tom Clancy joined forces with software company Virtus Corporation and studio manager, Doug Littlejohns.
It kickstarted the long-running Tom Clancy’s video game franchise over a number of years, beginning with the adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Politika. While it developed other games, it quickly became known for its first-person shooters, including Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six.
Various spin-offs and sequels followed, with the Rainbox Six franchise growing to become a major standout in the modern era of gaming.
Following the success of this initial release, in 2000, Ubisoft purchased Red Storm.
What followed was an explosion in popularity, as Rainbow Six grew, and Red Storm went on to develop Ghost Recon, another major franchise which netted a passionate audience, and which still continues today.
In the 2010s, the studio transitioned to other properties. It developed the VR titles Werewolves Within and Star Trek: Bridge Crew, both of which were well-received. It also developed the excellent Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR for Meta Quest, one of the sharpest VR games the ScreenHub team has reviewed to date.
Red Storm Entertainment was impacted by major game cancellations
While Ubisoft is yet to confirm the reasons for Red Storm Entertainment’s reported gutting, it’s worth noting the studio faced many challenges in the 2020s.
It had been working on an untitled Splinter Cell VR game in the early 2020s, which was announced as cancelled in July 2022. It was also the primary developer of Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland, a planned free-to-play FPS game for consoles that was cancelled in 2024, after years of development and multiple public tests.
It’s unclear what Red Storm Entertainment was working on prior to the decision to gut it, given the string of recent cancellations it had faced.
Notably, this news follows previous layoffs at Red Storm in mid-2025.
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