Vantage Studios is ready to take advantage of some big Ubisoft brands

Ubisoft have announced that the new subsidiary has a name and is live starting today. The name is Vantage Studios and was apparently decided by a vote of the employees who now work for the new group.

We learnt earlier this year that the change was happening and then back in July who the new CEO’s would be, but now the group is running on their own. This is what Ubisoft has said about the new group.

Led by Charlie Guillemot and Christophe Derennes, Vantage Studios will take on development and expansion of these brands, building on the foundation of Ubisoft's experience and expertise, sharing services and technical resources, all while giving developers more hands-on control over the games they are building.

Vantage Studios represents a first step in Ubisoft's ongoing transformation, with plans to set up additional creative houses and group its brands and franchises under the banner of a shared DNA and development expertise. The goal of Vantage Studios, and future creative houses, is to facilitate stronger and deeper connections between developers and players. This streamlined approach allows for both a higher level of autonomy for developers and a shorter pathway between gathering and implementing player feedback, while still offering the benefit of Ubisoft's expertise, services, tools, and tech.

Comprising teams developing the Rainbow Six, Assassin's Creed, and Far Cry franchises based in Ubisoft's studios in Montréal, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Saguenay, Barcelona, and Sofia, Vantage Studios brings together thousands of experienced developers from across the world, many of whom are responsible for creating some of Ubisoft's biggest games.

Now, let us not take for granted that the son of the current Ubisoft CEO, who has not had the best track record at keeping the company in a good spot, assigned his son to lead a new division he spun up, will automatically lead to bad things, but I don’t hold out hope.

With Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Xis under this new group, it could mean we see more from those series sooner rather than later. That could be good news for Assassin’s Creed, but only time will tell on that one. It is also interesting that the group only got Rainbow Six and not all the Tom Clancy brands. There was a studio that did oversee all Tom Clancy, that was Red Storm Entertainment, which itself was founded by Tom Clancy, but Ubisoft gutted that and moved all the work across the world.

There is no timeline on any games being revealed, but fingers crossed it happens soon, with luck this will also free up the other studios that remain under the Ubisoft banner, to work on more than just the same series.