Ubisoft subsidiary Red Storm Entertainment has just laid off over 100 developers and is ceasing game development, according to new reports.
Both VGC and GamesIndustry.biz reported on the layoffs at the North Carolina game studio on Thursday morning. There were 105 jobs cut as part of Ubisoft’s latest round of layoffs, and Red Storm Entertainment will now be a support studio working on the Snowdrop game engine, IT services, and customer relations rather than active game development.
It’s a sad end for a studio that played a major role in making Ubisoft what it is today. Red Storm Entertainment, co-founded by Tom Clancy himself, created the Rainbow Six series in 1998 and was acquired by Ubisoft in 2000. Over the next two decades, it would help build up the Ghost Recon series and The Division in addition to spearheading Ubisoft’s VR development with Werewolves Within and Star Trek: Bridge Crew.
