With recent reports indicating that Ubisoft’s Red Storm Entertainment—a studio known for its work on franchises like Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon—has been facing lay-offs, a new one has indicated that it was working on 10 different games before its development division was ultimately shut down. According to Insider Gaming, it was seemingly working as a support studio across a host of projects, which include live-service platform fighter Brawhalla, the long-in-development Beyond Good and Evil 2, and games that have already been out, like audio work for The Division 2.
The complete list of projects includes seasonal content for Rainbow Six Siege, a new mainline entry in the Ghost Recon franchise dubbed Project OVR, Brawlhalla, Beyond Good and Evil 2, a small-scale Rainbow Six projected titled Slice & Dice, Splinter Cell, audio for The Division 2, concept work for The Division 3, support for Watch Dogs Director’s Cut, and an unannounced project in the concept stages.
The report indicating that the game development teams at Red Storm Entertainment had been laid off came out just last week, with 105 employees seemingly affected. Along with this, the report also indicated that the studio was essentially turned into one to offer support for the Snowdrop Engine, along with being a “global IT” team.
Throughout its 30 years of existence, Red Storm Entertainment has been quite a prolific studio. It was originally founded by Tom Clancy in 1996, and was envisioned as a studio that would primarily make games based on Clancy’s spy fiction novels. This would lead to the Rainbow Six franchise. Red Storm Entertainment would get eventually acquired by Ubisoft in 2000.
The last decade has seen the studio working alongside other teams to develop VR off-shoots, like Star Trek: Bridge Crew. It had also been working on a host of projects that would never see the light of day, namely a VR Splinter Cell title, and The Division Heartland. Red Storm Entertainment also provided support for multiplayer shooter XDefiant before that game’s servers eventually got shut down.
Red Storm Entertainment had faced another set of lay-offs back in July 2025, affecting 19 of its employees at the time. Ubisoft said that the lay-offs were part of its cost-saving measures and targeted restructuring.
“Today, Ubisoft made the decision to eliminate 19 roles at Red Storm Entertainment,” said Ubisoft in its statement. “This step is part of our ongoing, targeted restructuring and global cost-saving efforts, and reflects the needs on the studio’s projects. While this was not an easy decision, it was a necessary one given our operational priorities. We remain committed to supporting those affected with comprehensive severance packages, extended health-care benefits, and career transition assistance. We deeply appreciate their hard work and the impact they’ve had on Ubisoft.”
Ubisoft has recently been facing quite a bit of criticism due to the restructuring plans it had announced earlier this year. Along with 1,200 of its employees going on strike last month to protest the company’s cost-cutting measures and return-to-office mandate, union representatives Marc Rutschlé and Chakib Mataoui even went as far as calling for the resignation of CEO Yves Guillemot.
