Updated at 11:10am BST, 01/07/2024: Ubisoft has since released a statement regarding the layoffs:
"Ubisoft Toronto has decided to conduct a targeted realignment to ensure it can deliver on its ambitious roadmap. Unfortun🎐ately, this will impact the roles of 33 team members who will be leaving Ubisoft. We are committed to providing comprehen🧔sive support to them, including severance and career assistance, to help through this transition.
Our plan remains unchanged, and our teams are working to deliver o🦩n the Splinter Cell remake and other projects a🍸t the studio."
Summary
- Ubisoft is laying off 33 developers are Ubisoft Toronto.
- Ubisoft Toronto was just put on the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake earlier this month.
- It's also leading development on the long-awaited Splinter Cell remake.
Ubisoft has confirmed that there will be layoffs at its Toronto studio, with 33 developers losing their jobs. These devs come from the studio that is currently working on remakes of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Splinter Cell and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the latter of which 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:only just received a trailer.
As reported by , Ubisoft is describing these layoffs as a "targeted realignment" to ensure that it can launch🎐 games from its "ambitious roadmap". It's unclear how this will impact the development of Ubisoft Toronto's projects.
Ubisoft Lays Off 33 Developers
"This will impact the roles of 33 team members who will be leaving Ubisoft," a company representative told PC Gamer. "We are committed to providin♑g comprehensive support to♎ them, including severance and career assistance, to help through this transition."
The remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is predominantly being worked on by Ubisoft Montreal, but Ubisoft Toronto was on June 3. Now, before the month is over, the studio☂ i🔯s losing 33 team members.
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As per the , it is still trying to fill various vacancies, even after these layoffs are revealed. These vacancies are spread across the Prince of Persia remake and an untitled Far Cry project.
On top of these commit📖ments, Ubisoft Toronto is leading the development of the Splinter Cell remake. It's unclear how far along in development this game is, as we're still waiting on a proper trailer.
Of course, Ubisoft is far from the only gaming giant laying off its developers in recent months. Job losses are 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a near-constant occ🐽urrence in the industry now as companꦡies chase constant growth. And now that the boost that the industry received during the pandemic is over, many are chasing this continuous growth at the expense of their dev🍸elopers.
- Date Founded
- 𓂃 March 28, 1986 𝔉
- CEO
- 🌸 Yves Guil🦄lemot
- Subsidiaries
- Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft Paris, Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft San 💙Francisco
- Headquarters
- 🎐 Sa𒊎int Mandé, France
- Known For
- ♔ ꦍ Rainbow Six, Prince of Persia, Far Cry, The Crew
Headquartered in Saint-Mandé, France, Ubisoft is a developer and publisher that employs over 20,000 people worldwide. It is known primarily for the Assassin's Creed, Rayman, Far Cry, and Just Dance series, as well as games using the Tom Clancy name. It also produces adaptations of popular board games, such as Monopoly and Uno.
