{"id":697088,"date":"2026-06-11T05:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697088\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:08:08","slug":"yet-more-layoffs-reported-at-ubisoft-this-time-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697088\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet more layoffs reported at Ubisoft, this time in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the same day as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/ubisoft-closing-studios-in-winnipeg-and-belgrade-and-cutting-publishing-roles-worldwide-380-jobs-at-risk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ubisoft announced it was closing its studios in Winnipeg and Belgrade and proposing further changes in Barcelona<\/a>, it&#8217;s now believed dozens of staff have been laid off from its San Francisco studio, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/ubisoft-san-francisco-layoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Insider Gaming<\/a> reports the layoffs were announced during an internal meeting earlier today as part of the company&#8217;s <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>. 380 roles are understood to be at risk.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear at this time how many people have been affected, but its thought between 50-100 jobs are at risk in San Francisco alone.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 45 employees were let go across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/ubisoft-lays-off-45-from-us-offices-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ubisoft&#8217;s San Francisco studio and Red Storm Entertainment, which is based in Cary, North Carolina, in August 2024<\/a>. Ubisoft San Francisco housed the team behind the publisher&#8217;s online shooter, XDefiant.<\/p>\n<p>GamesIndustry.biz has contacted Ubisoft for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the same day as Ubisoft announced it was closing its studios in Winnipeg and Belgrade and proposing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-697088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}