Red Storm Was Working On At Least 10 Video games

On March 19, Insider Gaming discovered that Ubisoft was ending sport improvement at Red Storm Entertainment. A studio practically 30 years outdated, Red Storm Entertainment is answerable for creating legendary franchises like Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.

Since 2000, the studio has been owned by Ubisoft, the place it continued to develop Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon video games up till the early 2010s. Since then, it primarily labored on VR video games and was creating The Division Heartland—a free-to-play spinoff sport in The Division sequence—earlier than that was canceled.

But other than the video games that have been publicly identified, the studio was engaged on no less than 10 completely different tasks on the time of the introduced layoffs at Ubisoft.

As revealed throughout the newest episode of Insider Gaming Weekly, Red Storm was a studio that was getting used when it was actually wanted by Ubisoft. That stated, it was wanted rather a lot, and the variety of tasks it had been engaged on backed that up.

At the time of its closure, Red Storm was engaged on the next tasks for Ubisoft:

• Rainbow Six Siege’s seasonal content material
• The subsequent mainline Ghost Recon sport, presently often known as Project OVR
• Brawlhalla
• Beyond Good & Evil 2
• A smaller-scale Rainbow Six sport known as Slice & Dice
• Splinter Cell
• Audio for The Division 2
• Conceptualization for The Division 3
• Support for Watch Dogs Director’s Cut
• Another unannounced venture that’s presently within the conception stage

With the gaming division shut down, Red Storm is now getting used as a world IT and Snowdrop help studio. It’s additionally anticipated that Ubisoft can be saying much more cost-cutting strikes within the coming weeks and months.

What are your ideas on Red Storm having its sport improvement ended, with over 100 individuals dropping their jobs on account of the layoffs by Ubisoft? Leave your ideas within the feedback under, and on this official Insider Gaming Discord.

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