Ubisoft Closing 2 More Studios Amid Further Cuts and Job Losses

Ubisoft volition unopen a further 2 studios arsenic a effect of continued outgo cutting measures, IGN understands.

Development offices located successful the Canadian metropolis of Winnipeg and the Serbian superior of Belgrade are the latest to beryllium marked for closure.

Further occupation losses are expected owed to organizational changes wrong the company's planetary publishing division, and successful Ubisoft's workplace based successful Barcelona, Spain. The second volition present absorption solely connected the Rainbow Six franchise, having antecedently supported different projects specified arsenic the Rabbids bid and Star Trek: Bridge Crew.

In total, the latest cuts are expected to interaction up to 380 positions, further downsizing Ubisoft's planetary headcount aft repeated occupation losses implicit caller years, arsenic profits person fallen and the company's blockbuster crippled output has slowed.

Back successful 2023, Ubisoft employed much than 20,000 staff. As of this twelvemonth — and earlier today's latest changes — the steadfast reported that fig was down to 16,590.

In March, Ubisoft confirmed that 105 unit were acceptable to depart seasoned Tom Clancy crippled workplace Red Storm Entertainment, arsenic portion of a determination that downsized the workplace permanently, pursuing 3 erstwhile waves of layoffs astatine the institution since 2022.

Ubisoft has chopped hundreds of unit and afloat closed galore studios successful caller times, with 2026 already disconnected to a brutal start. In January, the institution canceled six games including its Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake and closed 2 Ubisoft studios wholly (Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Halifax), portion making layoffs astatine its bureau successful Abu Dhabi, astatine Trials workplace RedLynx and astatine Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora outfit Massive Entertainment.

Just a week aft that, Ubisoft announced plans to ditch 200 jobs astatine its institution office successful Paris, starring to protests wrong the French capital. Next, successful February, Ubisoft was forced to reassure fans that its long-awaited Splinter Cell remake remained successful improvement aft 40 jobs were eliminated astatine its workplace Ubisoft Toronto.

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