Ubisoft has laid off quite a few staff at its Red Storm studio, which has most just lately centered on quite a few VR initiatives for the writer, in addition to supporting growth on titles resembling XDefiant.
As reported by IGN, Ubisoft has lower 19 jobs at Red Storm, citing “ongoing, focused restructuring and world cost-saving efforts” for its reasoning.
Ubisoft launched a full assertion to IGN, which reads, “Right now, Ubisoft made the choice to get rid of 19 roles at Red Storm Entertainment. This step is a part of our ongoing, focused restructuring and world cost-saving efforts, and displays the wants on the studio’s initiatives. Whereas this was not a simple determination, it was a mandatory one given our operational priorities. We stay dedicated to supporting these affected with complete severance packages, prolonged health-care advantages, and profession transition help. We deeply recognize their onerous work and the impression they’ve had on Ubisoft.”
It’s at present unclear how deep these cuts at Red Storm, which has turn into a VR and assist studio during the last a number of years, go or how they may impression any ongoing initiatives on the group. Ubisoft PR confirmed to IGN although that this restructuring isn’t indicative of any bigger cuts occurring on the French writer or of its different groups.
Red Storm, which was based in 1996 and created stalwart franchises beneath the Tom Clancy banner such because the Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon collection, most just lately launched Murderer’s Creed Nexus VR, which is completely accessible on Meta Quest 2 and above. Moreover this launch, which marks the long-running franchise’s debut on digital actuality platforms, the studio has spent a lot of the previous couple of years supporting video games like XDefiant, which was shut down earlier this yr, and dealing on a pair of canceled initiatives, together with a canned Splinter Cell VR title and a free-to-play spin-off title in The Division collection subtitled Heartland.
The previous was axed again in 2022 whereas the latter lingered for some time longer–even being performed in closed alpha tests–before being indefinitely delayed and in the end shelved in 2024 amidst wider cuts at a tricky time for the embattled writer, which just lately entered right into a partnership with Tencent.