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Ubisoft is closing two more studios, in Winnipeg and Belgrade, and making more layoffs throughout the company as part of its ongoing effort to reduce costs and keep the lights on. A source familiar with the matter said the cuts will see up to 380 people put out of work.<\/p>\n

The layoffs appear to have landed particularly heavily on Ubisoft’s Barcelona studio, which an Insider Gaming<\/a> report says will see 51 people let go. Mataoui Chakib Souleyman, a programmer at Ubisoft Paris, said on LinkedIn<\/a> that the number represents 28% of Ubisoft Barcelona’s workforce. As part of the restructuring, the studio, which had previously worked on a wide range of Ubisoft properties including Assassin’s Creed, The Crew, Ghost Recon, and Immortals: Fenyx Rising, will also shift its focus exclusively to the Rainbow Six franchise. <\/p>\n

The closures and layoffs are the latest bad news for Ubisoft employees, coming amidst an ongoing restructuring in which the founding Guillemot family is struggling furiously to retain control of the company while hundreds, and probably thousands, of rank-and-file employees lose their jobs. At the same time, Ubisoft is leaning ever-harder into AI<\/a>, and investing heavily into generative AI<\/a> in particular, despite continued pushback against the adoption of the technology in videogames.<\/p>\n

The reorganization has Ubisoft divided internally into five “creative houses<\/a>,” each responsible for a portion of the company’s properties; the largest creative house (and the only one with a proper name), Vantage Studios, is headed by Charlie Guillemot, son of Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The shakeup has also seen the departure of a number of high-level creatives, including former Assassin’s Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a>, former Assassin’s Creed Hexe creative director Clint Hocking<\/a>, and former Assassin’s Creed Hexe game director Benoit Richer<\/a>. C\u00f4t\u00e9 later sued Ubisoft for nearly $1 million<\/a>, alleging that he was fired improperly.<\/p>\n

A report by French site LesEchos<\/a> claims that further cuts at Ubisoft’s American operations are expected. We’ll update with any further developments as they happen.<\/p>\n

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Ubisoft is closing two more studios, in Winnipeg and Belgrade, and making more layoffs throughout the company as part of its ongoing effort to reduce costs and keep the lights on. A source familiar with the matter said the cuts will see up to 380 people put out of work. The layoffs appear to have landed particularly heavily on Ubisoft’s Barcelona studio, which an Insider Gaming report says will see 51 people let go. Mataoui Chakib Souleyman, a programmer at Ubisoft Paris, said on LinkedIn that the number represents 28% of Ubisoft Barcelona’s workforce. As part of the restructuring, the studio, which had previously worked on a wide range of Ubisoft properties including Assassin’s Creed, The Crew, Ghost Recon, and Immortals: Fenyx Rising, will also…<\/p>\n

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