Ubisoft reportedly shuts down more studios and lays off staff in Barcelona and San Francisco - Engadget

The French publisher is reportedly trying to cut costs without leaving key franchises like Rainbow Six: Siege in the lurch. After a round of layoffs in January and February, Ubisoft is reportedly once again restructuring its studios and laying off staff. According to The Game Business, the publisher is closing its studios in Winnipeg and Belgrade, while laying off employees in Barcelona. Layoffs are also impacting staff in Ubisoft's San Francisco offices, which ended work as a development studio in 2024 but is still home to some of the company's IT and marketing teams, Insider Gaming reports. Shutting down Winnipeg impacts the studio's entire 65-person team, Mobile Sugar writes, and combined with Belgrade and the layoffs in Barcelona, The Game Business says around 380 jobs could be at risk. Besides cutting fixed costs (things like salaries, lease payments and insurance premiums), Ubisoft appears to be restructuring the development process of one of its more popular multiplayer games, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege. Insider Gaming reports the publisher is reassigning 12 percent of the development team that was working on Siege to other projects and making Ubisoft Barcelona the game