Ubisoft is closing its Winnipeg and Belgrade studios, and restructuring its Barcelona workplace, which might lead to as many as 380 job losses, VGC understands.
Ubisoft Barcelona might be restructured to focus solely on Rainbow Six initiatives. As well as, Ubisoft has internally introduced organizational modifications inside its World Publishing crew, which can see position reductions throughout the corporate.
Winnipeg was based in 2018 and comprised of round 100 workers. It targeted on growing know-how for Ubisoft’s sport engines, Anvil and Snowdrop.
Based in 2016, Ubisoft Belgrade contributed to video games together with The Crew 2, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, Riders Republic, and Cranium & Bones.
The closures and restructuring come as a part of Ubisoft’s international cost-saving plan, which has up to now resulted in the cancellation of a minimum of six video games, the postponement of seven others, and a number of studio closures, leading to a whole bunch of job losses this yr.
In March, Ubisoft introduced round 100 job losses at historic Tom Clancy sport studio Crimson Storm Leisure, which it stated would now not be growing its personal video games.
Ubisoft additionally proposed the elimination of as much as 200 jobs at its headquarters in Paris, France, or round 18% of workers, and has confirmed layoffs at its Toronto studio and others.
The corporate says it’s aiming to cut back its fastened prices by a further €200 million over the following two years. The cuts are a part of Ubisoft’s announcement of a ‘main reset’, which can see its inventive groups radically restructured into autonomous ‘inventive homes’.
