{"id":728182,"date":"2026-06-10T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/728182\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:01:14","slug":"video-game-company-ubisoft-shutters-winnipeg-studio-affecting-about-65-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/728182\/","title":{"rendered":"Video game company Ubisoft shutters Winnipeg studio, affecting about 65 employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Video game giant Ubisoft has closed its studio in Winnipeg, affecting around 65 employees.<\/p>\n

Company spokesperson Caroline Stelmach confirmed the closure in an email on Wednesday, saying no other studios in Canada were affected.<\/p>\n

The Winnipeg studio opened in 2019, employing Manitobans while also recruiting across Canada and internationally. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The closure comes after the company said in 2022 it planned to triple its Winnipeg workforce<\/a> to 300 employees by 2030, by hiring additional programmers.<\/p>\n

The France-based company is best known for its Assassin’s Creed series and has also produced numerous other games, such as Brawlhalla, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon and Just Dance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Winnipeg closure comes after the company announced in January it had closed its Halifax studio<\/a>, putting 71 employees there out of work.<\/p>\n

In an emailed statement, Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham called the latest update “very difficult news” for those who lost their jobs, but said the closure was “a Ubisoft issue, not a Winnipeg issue.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gillingham said Wednesday Ubisoft has been “restructuring globally for several years, closing studios and laying off thousands of employees across multiple countries,” but he’s confident in Winnipeg’s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-728182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}