On March 19, Insider Gaming learned that Ubisoft was ending game development at Red Storm Entertainment. A studio nearly 30 years old, Red Storm Entertainment is responsible for creating legendary franchises like Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.
Since 2000, the studio has been owned by Ubisoft, where it continued to develop Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon games up until the early 2010s. Since then, it primarily worked on VR games and was developing The Division Heartland—a free-to-play spinoff game in The Division series—before that was canceled.
But aside from the games that were publicly known, the studio was working on at least 10 different projects at the time of the announced layoffs at Ubisoft.
As revealed during the latest episode of Insider Gaming Weekly, Red Storm was a studio that was being used when it was really needed by Ubisoft. That said, it was needed quite a lot, and the number of projects it had been working on backed that up.
At the time of its closure, Red Storm was working on the following projects for Ubisoft:
- Rainbow Six Siege’s seasonal content
- The next mainline Ghost Recon game, currently known as Project OVR
- Brawlhalla
- Beyond Good & Evil 2
- A smaller-scale Rainbow Six game called Slice & Dice
- Splinter Cell
- Audio for The Division 2
- Conceptualization for The Division 3
- Support for Watch Dogs Director’s Cut
- Another unannounced project that’s currently in the conception stage
With the gaming division shut down, Red Storm is now being used as a global IT and Snowdrop support studio. It’s also expected that Ubisoft will be announcing even more cost-cutting moves in the coming weeks and months.
What are your thoughts on Red Storm having its game development ended, with over 100 people losing their jobs as a result of the layoffs by Ubisoft? Leave your thoughts in the comments below, and in this official Insider Gaming Discord.
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At this point, Red Storm was more like a name anyway than a Ghost Recon or whatever creator conglomerate? It’s been so long, the related people surely left or retired.