Based on videogameaddicted, Ubisoft plans to shut two extra studios because of continued cost-cutting measures.
Current closures embody growth workplaces in Winnipeg, Canada, and Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.
Additional job losses are anticipated because of organizational modifications inside the firm’s international publishing division and Ubisoft’s Barcelona, ββSpain-based studio. The latter beforehand supported different initiatives such because the Rabbits sequence and Star Trek: Bridge Crew, however is now solely centered on the Rainbow Six franchise.
The layoffs are anticipated to have an effect on as much as 380 positions in complete, additional lowering Ubisoft’s international workforce, which has been reduce repeatedly lately as earnings have fallen and manufacturing of the corporate’s blockbuster video games has slowed.
Again in 2023, Ubisoft employed over 20,000 employees. As of this 12 months, and earlier than at the moment’s newest modifications, that quantity had dropped to 16,590, the corporate reported.
In March, Ubisoft confirmed that 105 employees members have been set to depart Tom Clancy’s veteran sport studio Purple Storm Leisure as a part of a transfer to completely downsize the studio following three waves of layoffs since 2022.
2026 is already off to a tough begin, with Ubisoft just lately chopping tons of of employees and completely closing quite a few studios. In January, the corporate canceled six video games, together with a remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, completely closed two Ubisoft studios (Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Halifax), whereas chopping jobs at its Abu Dhabi workplace, trial studio Purple Hyperlinks, and Avatar: Pandora’s Frontier firm Large Leisure.
Only a week later, Ubisoft introduced plans to chop 200 jobs at its headquarters in Paris, sparking protests within the French capital. Then, in February, Ubisoft was pressured to reassure followers that growth on the long-awaited Splinter Cell remake continued after 40 jobs have been reduce at Studio Ubisoft Toronto.
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