The French writer is reportedly making an attempt to chop prices with out leaving key franchises like Rainbow Six: Siege within the lurch.
After a spherical of layoffs in January and February, Ubisoft is reportedly as soon as once more restructuring its studios and shedding employees. According to The Game Business, the writer is closing its studios in Winnipeg and Belgrade, whereas shedding staff in Barcelona. Layoffs are additionally impacting employees in Ubisoft’s San Francisco workplaces, which ended work as a growth studio in 2024 however remains to be residence to among the firm’s IT and advertising groups, Insider Gaming reports.
Shutting down Winnipeg impacts the studio’s whole 65-person group, Mobile Sugar writes, and mixed with Belgrade and the layoffs in Barcelona, The Sport Enterprise says round 380 jobs might be in danger. Moreover reducing mounted prices (issues like salaries, lease funds and insurance coverage premiums), Ubisoft seems to be restructuring the event strategy of one in all its extra fashionable multiplayer video games, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege. Insider Gaming reports the writer is reassigning 12 % of the event group that was engaged on Siege to different initiatives and making Ubisoft Barcelona the sport’s new main developer.
Engadget has contacted Ubisoft for extra info on its studio closures, layoffs and what number of staff will probably be affected. We’ll replace this text if we hear again.
The constant drum beat of layoffs, voluntary buyouts and workplace closures has been one of many methods Ubisoft has tried to financially right several years of poor sales and game delays. In October 2025, the corporate additionally made the choice to spin out Vantage Studios with funding from Tencent, to behave as the house for a few of its greatest and most well-known collection, like Murderer’s Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six.
