The French gaming publisher has come to an agreement with Tom Clancy to obtain all intellectual property rights to the Tom Clancy name, free from future royalty payments, for use in video games and related books, films and merchandise. The price of the acquisition was not revealed, but now that Ubisoft no longer have to pay royalties, it expects to save a large amount of money.
"After ten years of a highly successful collaboration which has seen the creation of blockbusters that set standards in the videogame industry, such as Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, today, acquiring the perpetual property rights of the Tom Clancy name for video games and related projects is a major event," said Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft.
"The Tom Clancy brand is recognized around the world for offering exciting video games, films and books…Capitalizing on the strong franchises that we've built over the past 10 years, we will take the Tom Clancy game brand to the next level of the global entertainment industry," he added.
In addition to the recently released Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Ubisoft has two other Tom Clancy games in the pipeline for later this year – the strategy title Tom Clancy's EndWar, and the fifth Sam Fisher adventure, Splinter Cell: Conviction.
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