Having asked Division devs to lay themselves off, Ubisoft are now cutting 55 jobs at Massive and Ubisoft Stockholm

Earlier voluntary redundancy strategy didn't conscionable requirements

Ubisoft expect to laic disconnected 55 radical crossed Tom Clancy's The Division developers Massive successful Malmö, Sweden and unreality computing workplace Ubisoft Stockholm, arsenic portion of wider cost-cutting. Reportedly, the job-lossenings are indispensable due to the fact that not capable workers person participated successful an earlier voluntary redundancy strategy astatine Massive.

"This restructure follows the completion of the Voluntary Leave Program launched during the autumn of 2025, a finalized semipermanent roadmap, and a completed staffing and assignment process, which unneurotic person provided clearer visibility into the operation and capableness required to enactment the 2 studios’ enactment and sustainably implicit time,” the publishers accidental successful a connection passed to IGN, who "understand" that the aforesaid Voluntary Leave Program didn't bash numbers capable for management.

"These projected changes are forward-looking and structural, they are not related to idiosyncratic performance, caller deliveries, oregon the prime of the enactment produced by the teams," the connection continues.

Ubisoft adhd that “the semipermanent absorption for the studios remains unchanged”, dangling hints astir “an unannounced innovative tech task with a refined squad setup”. For context, Ubisoft Stockholm presently authorities connected their website that “we’re moving hard connected thing caller and ambitious, and we can’t hold to stock with you what it is”.

Ubisoft accidental that the impacted studios volition proceed to “play a cardinal role” successful improvement of Ubisoft’s Snowdrop motor – besides utilized by Star Wars Outlaws, The Settlers: New Allies and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - and the integer organisation work Ubisoft Connect.

IGN study that improvement of The Division bid “will inactive proceed arsenic a substance of priority”, based connected conversations with Ubisoft. The publishers announced that they were “building a team” to marque The Division 3 backmost successful September 2023, alongside updates for The Division 2 (which volition get a time-limited DLC Realism Mode successful March, amongst different trinkets, arsenic portion of the series’ 10 twelvemonth day festivities). There’s besides an upcoming extraction mode, The Division 2: Survivors, and astir recently, reports of a Definitive Edition of the archetypal game.

This is the 2nd large circular of cuts Ubisoft person announced successful the full full 2 archetypal weeks of 2026. Last week, they closed Ubisoft Halifax soon aft the workplace voted to unionise, insisting that determination was nary transportation betwixt these events. Best of luck to everybody affected.