In September 2026 Ubisoft closed its Winnipeg (Canada) and Belgrade (Serbia) studios and narrowed its Barcelona studio to work solely on the Rainbow Six franchise, the latest in a string of cuts that included closing Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Halifax and canceling six games (including a Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake) in January 2026, 200 Paris job cuts the same month, and 40 cuts to the Splinter Cell remake team in Toronto in February 2026, reducing total headcount from over 20,000 in 2023 to 16,590. The cuts followed CEO Yves Guillemot's January 21, 2026 announcement ending remote work and mandating a five-day in-office return without prior consultation with works councils, funded by a EUR200 million cost-cutting plan employees learned of via press release. Five Ubisoft unions called an international strike for February 10-12, 2026, with one union statement saying management was 'push[ing] us out by making our working conditions unbearable' rather than taking financial responsibility for layoffs.
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Ubisoft Entertainment SA
French video game publisher and developer behind franchises including Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six. Led by co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot.