Star Wars Outlaws developer Huge Leisure and Ubisoft Stockholm face layoffs

We aren’t even two weeks into the brand new yr and Ubisoft is already seeking to perform its second spherical of layoffs in 2026. The corporate has knowledgeable staff at Huge Leisure and Ubisoft Stockholm of a “proposed organizational restructure” that would have an effect on round 55 roles throughout its two Swedish studios. Employees at Huge (the developer of The Division collection, Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora) had been supplied voluntary buyouts late final yr as a part of Ubisoft’s ongoing cost-cutting efforts.

“This restructure follows the completion of the Voluntary Go away Program launched through the fall of 2025, a finalized long-term roadmap and a accomplished staffing and appointment course of, which collectively have supplied clearer visibility into the construction and capability required to help the 2 studios’ work and sustainably over time,” Ubisoft instructed IGN in a press release. “These proposed adjustments are forward-looking and structural, they aren’t associated to particular person efficiency, latest deliveries or the standard of the work produced by the groups.”

Ubisoft claims that the “long-term course for the studios stays unchanged.” Huge will proceed engaged on tasks that embody The Division 3. Ubisoft Stockholm, in the meantime, is beavering away on a brand new franchise that is nonetheless below wraps for now. That venture is harnessing the studio’s Ubisoft Scalar cloud computing tech, in keeping with Sport Developer.

Earlier in January, the corporate stated it was shutting down Ubisoft Halifax, ensuing within the lack of 71 jobs. Employees at that studio unionized simply 16 days earlier. Ubisoft stated its choice was a part of “company-wide actions to streamline operations.”