Ubisoft closing studios in Winnipeg and Belgrade and cutting publishing roles worldwide, 380 jobs at risk
Ubisoft is closing its studios in Winnipeg and Belgrade and making further cuts to its global publishing team, affecting approximately 380 roles. The Barcelona studio will refocus exclusively on the Rainbow Six franchise. Separately, the Entertainment Software Association is warning that a proposed 'No Fakes Act' could harm the video game industry by failing to distinguish between harmful deepfakes and legitimate digital replicas used in game development.
- Entities
- Game: Rainbow 6
- Game: Assassin's Creed Shadows
- Game: Xdefiant
- Game: Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced
- Company: Entertainment Software Association of Canada
- Topic: Layoffs
- Game: Rayman Legends Retold
- Person: Stanley Pierre-Louis
- Topic: Studio Closures
- Topic: Deepfakes
- Game: Rainbow Six Mobile
- Company: Ubisoft
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