Ubisoft has announced an agreement with Tom Clancy to acquire all intellectual rights to the Tom Clancy name for use in video games and ancillary products including related books, movies and merchandising products.
The deal is expected to save Ubisoft upwards of 5 million Euros a year. We're definitely all for more available cash to create better games.
There's no word yet on how this deal might affect the recent news that Sam Raimi is being courted to revive the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan films at Paramount. Maybe we'll see an Ubisoft logo in the film's credits.
"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, stated Yves Guillemot, Chief Executive Officer
at Ubisoft.
"The future of our industry lies in our capacity to create and develop
brands that captivate consumers and that present a myriad of opportunities for the
full spectrum of entertainment, be it video games, books, movies or other media. The
Tom Clancy brand is recognized around the world for offering exciting video games,
films and books. The most recent example of such value creation through brand
management is the EndWar book, based on the video game story, which has been in the
NY Times top 10 Paperback Mass Market Fiction bestseller list for the last four
weeks. 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."
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