Red Storm Entertainment, Inc.

Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. is a company that makes video games


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Red Storm Entertainment is a game development company and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ubisoft. Their work is mainly based on the writing of Tom Clancy. They were founded in 1996 as part of VirtusCorporation.

In 1996, Tom Clancy decided to make a multimedia company. He went to long time friend,  Doug Littlejohns for help. Littlejohns then became president and CEO of Red Storm.

Red Storm Entertainment (from here on, RSE) released their first game in 1997, "Tom Clancy's Politika". They also quickly released one of the first 3D Real Time Strategy games, "Dominant Species".

In 1998, RSE became widely known with their release of "Rainbow Six", the first tactical FPS in history. Though it was not based on a previous Tom Clancy book, one was released only weeks later. The game was fallowed by the "Eagle Watch" mission pack.


In 2000, RSE solidified it's position in the market with "Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear", which was also fallowed by two mission packs, "Urban Operations" and "Black Thorn". They also expanded into the turn based and military-real time strategy genres, with "Shadow Watch" and "Force 21" respectively.


Later in 2000, the studio was purchased by Ubisoft Entertainment. RSE would soon release it's first in-house console developed game, "Ghost Recon", which essentially took the tactical shooter gameplay of Rainbow Six, and applied it to a near future territorial conflict in the Caucasus. It was also the first full fledged Xbox LIVE game to take advantage of all it's features.


In 2003 Ubisoft decided to integrate "Sinister Games" into RSE, keeping the headquarters in Morrisville. In the same year, RSE released "Rainbow Six: Raven Shield", which was fallowed by the mission packs, "Athena Sword"and "Iron Wrath". An Xbox port was also later released, but by Ubisoft Montreal.

In 2004, Ubisoft signaled their desire to shift RSE to console focused development with the release of "Ghost Recon 2", which was the first RSE game not released on PC. Ghost Recon 2 was also one of the first console games to make downloadable content available. The game was fallowed by a Ubisoft developed add-on, "Summit Strike".

Most recently, RSE was tasked with the development of the multiplayer portions of both "Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter" games (though notably not the single player portions). They also developed the most recent "America's Army" game.

Company Name Red Storm Entertainment, Inc.
Street Address 3200 Gateway Ctr. Blvd.
City Morrisville
State NC
Country USA
Website http://www.redstorm.com
Contact Email
Phone Number (919) 460-1776
Date Founded Jan. 1, 1996
Count of Games Published 11
Count of Games Developed 27
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