Every week after we heard about Ubisoft’s closure of its cell game-focused studio Ubisoft Halifax, information has now surfaced in regards to the third-party writer shedding folks at two different groups as a part of ongoing cost-cutting measures.
Based on a report from IGN, Ubisoft “expects 55 jobs” to be impacted on the Swedish Studios Huge Leisure and Ubisoft Stockholm following a voluntary depart program in fall 2025 that apparently fell wanting its goal.
Huge is understood for The Division and Ubisoft Stockholm has been engaged on an unannounced (and new) IP in addition to cloud computing expertise.
Here is the prolonged assertion from Ubisoft, highlighting these studio restructuring measures:
Ubisoft: Earlier at this time, we knowledgeable all workers in our Swedish studios (Huge Leisure and Ubisoft Stockholm) a couple of proposed organizational restructure that will have an effect on roughly 55 roles throughout Malmö and Stockholm.
This restructure follows the completion of the Voluntary Go away Program launched in the course of the fall of 2025, a finalized long-term roadmap, and a accomplished staffing and appointment course of, which collectively have offered clearer visibility into the construction and capability required to assist the 2 studios’ work and sustainably over time.
These proposed modifications are forward-looking and structural, they don’t seem to be associated to particular person efficiency, current deliveries, or the standard of the work produced by the groups.
The long-term course for the studios stays unchanged, and we are going to proceed to function the worldwide dwelling and lead for to The Division franchise, transfer ahead with an unannounced revolutionary tech venture with a refined staff setup, and play a central function within the improvement of Snowdrop and Ubisoft Join.
The proposed restructuring will start with a deal with particular person agreements and impacted workers are being knowledgeable immediately and supported with care and respect inline with native laws.
Improvement on The Division sequence remains to be anticipated to proceed “as a matter of precedence”, and as famous, the “long-term course” for each of those studios “stays unchanged”.
The Malmö-based developer Huge additionally occurs to be behind the Snowdrop engine, which powered Star Wars Outlaws – a recreation launched on Change 2 final 12 months.
