r/Games: Ubisoft Ends Game Development at Red Storm and Cuts 105 Roles

A high-signal r/Games post focused on VGC's March 19, 2026 report that Ubisoft is ending game development at Red Storm Entertainment, the long-running Tom Clancy studio based in North Carolina. According to VGC, 105 jobs are being cut as Ubisoft shifts the studio away from making games and keeps it operating instead as a hub for global IT and Snowdrop support.

What happened

VGC says Ubisoft informed staff internally that Red Storm's game development function is being shut down, even though the studio itself will remain active in a support role.

Red Storm was founded in 1996 by Tom Clancy and became one of the earliest homes of Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon before Ubisoft acquired it in 2000.

In more recent years the studio worked on VR projects such as Werewolves Within, Star Trek: Bridge Crew, and Assassin's Creed Nexus VR, while Ubisoft's broader cost-cutting program also led to cancelled projects including The Division Heartland.

Why it matters

Red Storm is not just another Ubisoft satellite. It is one of the studios most tightly linked to the original Tom Clancy era, which means this shift carries symbolic weight well beyond the number of jobs involved. When a team with that lineage stops building games and moves into support work, it signals a deeper change in how Ubisoft now values legacy production groups.

The move also clarifies where active Tom Clancy development now sits inside Ubisoft. VGC notes that major stewardship has already shifted to teams such as Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Paris, and Ubisoft Toronto. Red Storm's expertise is apparently still useful, but no longer in a frontline product role.

That matters because Ubisoft is not treating this as an isolated trim. The publisher has been cutting costs across the company, postponing projects, cancelling others, and restructuring creative work into more autonomous internal units. Converting Red Storm into an infrastructure and engine-support operation fits that broader plan.

For players, the immediate impact is not a delayed launch announcement or a new Tom Clancy roadmap. The bigger takeaway is structural: Ubisoft appears more willing to preserve technical knowledge than to preserve game-making mandates at older studios. That is a meaningful signal about how the publisher intends to manage risk, staffing, and franchise production over the next few years.