The French publisher would try to reduce its costs without leaving aside key franchises like Rainbow Six: Siege.
After a series of layoffs in January and February, Ubisoft is reportedly once again restructuring its studios and laying off staff. According to The gaming businessthe publisher is closing its studios in Winnipeg and Belgrade, while laying off staff in Barcelona. The layoffs also affect staff at Ubisoft’s San Francisco offices, which ended their development studio operations in 2024 but still house some of the company’s IT and marketing teams, Insider games reports.
The Winnipeg shutdown has an impact on the studio’s entire team of 65 people, Mobile sugar written, and combined with Belgrade and the layoffs in Barcelona, The gaming business says around 380 jobs could be at risk. In addition to reducing fixed costs (like salaries, rents and insurance premiums), Ubisoft appears to be restructuring the development process for one of its most popular multiplayer games, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege. Insider games reports that the publisher is reassigning 12% of the development team it was working on Seat to other projects and making Ubisoft Barcelona the new lead developer of the game.
Woozad has reached out to Ubisoft for more information on studio closures, layoffs and how many employees will be affected. We will update this article if we receive a response.
The steady pace of layoffs, voluntary buyouts, and office closures has been one of the ways Ubisoft has attempted to financially correct several years of poor sales and game delays. In October 2025, the company also made the decision to create Vantage Studios with funding from Tencent, to host some of its biggest and best-known series, like Assassin’s Creed, Far from it And Rainbow six.
