Ubisoft Moves To ‘Creative Houses’ Model As Part Of Tencent Deal

On November 13, Ubisoft postponed the discharge of its monetary report for the primary half of the 2025-26 monetary yr and suspended buying and selling in its shares and bonds. The delay in reporting earnings could have raised considerations inside the gaming neighborhood that Ubisoft’s $1.3 billion cope with Tencent had fallen by way of, however the firm has since introduced earnings and the deal is accomplished.

Earlier this yr, Ubisoft introduced a serious reorganization, with the gaming Goliath narrowing its focus and making a subsidiary firm devoted to creating new video games and content material for 3 of the corporate’s hottest video games: Murderer’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six. The brand new enterprise, led by Christophe Derennes and Charlie Guillemot, is now known as Vantage Studios, and there will probably be extra “inventive homes” like this sooner or later.

Ubisoft publicizes particulars of recent working mannequin in January

Ubisoft’s delayed monetary report suggests the corporate could lastly be on target after struggling heavy losses in 2024.

“Web bookings for the second quarter exceeded expectations, reaching €490.8 million in comparison with expectations of roughly €450 million, a rise of 39% year-on-year. This sturdy efficiency was pushed by sturdy partnerships that exceeded expectations and is supported by a stable again catalogue, each of which spotlight the power of the Group’s manufacturers.”

With Tencent’s $1.3 billion money funding secured, second-quarter income exceeding expectations, and partnerships with three big-name video games, Ubisoft’s future is beginning to look fairly vibrant, however getting up to now required important cuts.

“Because of continued self-discipline in recruitment and focused restructuring efforts, Ubisoft’s world workforce stood at 17,097 on the finish of September 2025, a discount of roughly 1,500 staff over the previous 12 months and roughly 700 staff for the reason that finish of March 2025. In October, a focused voluntary go away program and restructuring plan was launched in our Nordic studios.”

Though the restructuring seems to be continuing as deliberate, it’s an ongoing course of and Ubisoft has stated it’ll reveal full particulars of its new working mannequin in January.

“By the tip of the yr, the Group will full the design of a brand new working mannequin constructed round Artistic Home, an impartial enterprise unit aimed toward driving a stronger inventive imaginative and prescient, larger focus, effectivity, autonomy and accountability.”

Tencent at the moment owns a 26.32% financial curiosity in Vantage Studios, which can proceed to be solely managed and built-in by Ubisoft.