With Rainbow Six Vegas 2 hitting stores across the globe this Easter weekend, publisher Ubisoft have confirmed that they have snapped up the rights to Tom Clancy's name and related IPs on a "perpetual basis". Which sounds... permanent.

The new deal sees the French publisher "acquire all intellectual property rights to the Tom Clancy name, on a perpetual basis and free of all related future royalty payments, for use in video games and ancillary products including related books, movies and merchandising products."

The ever-lasting agreement may negate any future royalty payments to Clancy, by the sound of things, and is rumoured to have cost Ubi in the region of 20 million Euro.

"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," beams Yves Guillemot, CEO at Ubisoft.

"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."

EndWar, based on the Clancy novel of the same name, will be released in September. More soon.

By Luke Guttridge

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