{"id":631876,"date":"2026-06-10T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631876\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:26:08","slug":"ubisoft-closing-studios-in-winnipeg-and-belgrade-and-cutting-publishing-roles-worldwide-380-jobs-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631876\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft closing studios in Winnipeg and Belgrade and cutting publishing roles worldwide, 380 jobs at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft has carried out another round of cuts as part of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/ubisoft-reveals-new-creative-house-structure-cancels-games-and-announces-final-round-of-cost-cutting-and-studio-closures-to-drive-200m-savings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seemingly endless restructuring process<\/a>, sources have told <a href=\"http:\/\/gamesindustry.biz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>. It is closing its studios in Winnipeg and Belgrade and proposing further changes in Barcelona and to its global publishing team. 380 roles are understood to be at risk.<\/p>\n<p>GamesIndustry.biz understands that the company has proposed focusing Ubisoft Barcelona exclusively on the Rainbow Six franchise. Separately it has conducted layoffs across its global publishing organisation, which involved a number of jobs being lost in different offices. A total count of affected roles was not clear due to ongoing redundancy processes in different territories, although <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VandalOnline\/status\/2064708005820576005\" rel=\"nofollow\">local sources<\/a> claimed that 61 jobs were impacted in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft Belgrade was opened in 2016 and served as a support studio working on a variety of the company&#8217;s titles, most recently Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced and Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows. Ubisoft Winnipeg opened in 2019 and most recently worked on Rainbow Six Mobile, following a stretch on the firm&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/mark-rubin-leaves-ubisoft-xdefiant-officially-shuts-down\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ill-fated free-to-play shooter XDefiant<\/a>. The Barcelona studio \u2013 which is separate to Ubisoft Barcelona Mobile, based in the same city \u2013 was most recently credited on Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft has been making swingeing cuts for five years. In January it announced it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/ubisoft-reveals-new-creative-house-structure-cancels-games-and-announces-final-round-of-cost-cutting-and-studio-closures-to-drive-200m-savings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">embarking on a &#8220;final&#8221; round of cost-cutting<\/a> that would deliver \u20ac200 million in savings. The most recent financial results showed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/ubisofts-full-fy26-financials-report-shows-a-sharp-decline-in-revenue-and-net-bookings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sharp decline in revenue and net bookings<\/a>, and the company said that it expected the current financial year to &#8220;represent a low point in our free cash flow trajectory,&#8221; citing costs associated with redundancies. The firm also has a very light release slate this year, headed by two remakes: Black Flag Resynced and the recently-announced Rayman Legends Retold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ubisoft has carried out another round of cuts as part of its seemingly endless restructuring process, sources have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-631876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}