Red Storm Entertainment, Inc., the studio that developed Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon series, has been closed by Ubisoft. A total of 105 employees are affected by the closure of the studio, which has published 33 video games since 1996.
The last game released was Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR for Meta Quest 2 in 2023. Since then, two games developed by Red Storm, Splinter Cell and The Division, have been canceled. The studio was founded by Tom Clancy and Doug Littlejohn in 1996 and named after Clancy’s book Red Storm Rising. The studio was acquired by Ubisoft in 2020.
Clancy recognized early on that there was a market for military-themed games and techno-thrillers based on the books he had written. Rainbow Six, based on the Ryanverse book of the same name published in 1998, popularized team-based tactical FPS games.
For fans of the Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon and The Division series, the games will still be developed by Ubisoft by Vantage Studios and CH2 studios through the restructuring announced last January.
