Ubisoft Shutters Troubled Tom Clancy Game A Year After Launch - Kotaku

In August of last year, Ubisoft launched a mobile Tom Clancy action-RPG called Elite Squad, which featured characters from Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, The Division, H.A.W.X., and EndWar (remember those last two?).

Reviews, meanwhile, painted Elite Squad as a fairly generic gacha game, and it seemingly failed to attract much of a player base.

While it announced what essentially amounts to a whole platform for Assassin’s Creed games a couple weeks ago, Kotaku’s reporting today revealed the slow-mo mess spilling out of an Assassin’s Creed co-developer, Ubisoft Singapore—which is also responsible for the pained eight-year (and counting) development process of pirate game Skull & Bones.

This comes on the heels of delays to multiple major Ubisoft games and ongoing harassment woes that recently culminated in a French court complaint accusing Ubisoft of “institutional harassment.” Elite Squad might be shutting down in October, but it’s unlikely that Ubisoft’s wider troubles will end anytime soon!