Ubisoft reportedly shuts down more studios and lays off staff in Barcelona and San Francisco

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After a information of layoffs successful January and February, Ubisoft is reportedly erstwhile again restructuring its studios and laying disconnected staff. According to The Game Business, nan patient is closing its studios successful Winnipeg and Belgrade, while laying disconnected labor successful Barcelona. Layoffs are besides impacting unit successful Ubisoft's San Francisco offices, which ended activity arsenic a improvement workplace successful 2024 but is still location to immoderate of nan company's IT and trading teams, Insider Gaming reports.

Shutting down Winnipeg impacts nan studio's full 65-person team, Mobile Sugar writes, and mixed pinch Belgrade and nan layoffs successful Barcelona, The Game Business says astir 380 jobs could beryllium astatine risk. Besides cutting fixed costs (things for illustration salaries, lease payments and security premiums), Ubisoft appears to beryllium restructuring nan improvement process of 1 of its much celebrated multiplayer games, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege. Insider Gaming reports nan patient is reassigning 12 percent of nan improvement squad that was moving connected Siege to different projects and making Ubisoft Barcelona nan game's caller superior developer.

Engadget has contacted Ubisoft for much accusation connected its workplace closures, layoffs and really galore labor will beryllium affected. We'll update this article if we perceive back.

The accordant drum hit of layoffs, voluntary buyouts and agency closures has been 1 of nan ways Ubisoft has tried to financially correct several years of mediocre income and crippled delays. In October 2025, nan institution besides made nan determination to spin retired Vantage Studios pinch backing from Tencent, to enactment arsenic nan location for immoderate of its biggest and astir well-known series, for illustration Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six.