MMORPG News - Tom Clancy MMO In the Works

Gamasutra reports that a Tom Clancy MMO is in development at Ubisoft. This news comes after it has been revealed today that Ubisoft has bought the rights to the Tom Clancy IP:

Guillemot revealed that the company had considered developing an MMO for some time, but had been held back by the royalty fees they will no longer have to pay.

"On the MMO, the investment is generally high, so you need to maximize the revenue. And with the royalties we had [been paying], it was another barrier not to create the game, because the return on investment was diminished by that," he said.

Continued Guillemot, "Having no royalties, it's going to help us to have a full return, so we are ready and decide now to go for an MMO on the Clancy name -- which is big, because you have on one side Splinter Cell, Sam Fisher, the Rainbow [Sixes] the GRAW and all the other new creations that we have. So this will make that product [a] really big product."

This might be out of our normal scope, so we are probably not going to cover this game continuously unless of course the game turns out to have RPG mechanisms.