The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake amongst six video games canceled by Ubisoft

Two high-profile upcoming Ubisoft video games have been beginning to look an increasing number of like vaporware with every passing yr. Considered one of them is Past Good & Evil 2, which we have been assured remains to be in growth final yr. The opposite is the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, which is now formally canceled, together with 5 different video games on Ubisoft’s launch slate.

The information got here in a media briefing attended just about by VGC, wherein the French firm additionally introduced delays to seven different video games as a part of a serious restructuring. As reported by VGC, the one canceled recreation at the moment named by Ubisoft is the remake of its 2003 basic, which was first introduced in 2020 and has by all accounts been in varied phases of growth hell ever since. Three of the others have been authentic new IPs and one was a cellular recreation.

Ubisoft isn’t placing names to the greater than half dozen delayed video games both, however VGC’s report says one was supposed to come back out within the first quarter of this yr, and can now launch earlier than April 2027. Whereas it’s but to be formally introduced, a remake of Murderer’s Creed: Black Flag has been closely rumored for a number of months and is probably going one of many video games that has slipped.

Ubisoft additionally outlined its new organizational mannequin, which is able to see the corporate cut up into 5 “inventive homes” that perform as unbiased enterprise items. Considered one of these is the beforehand introduced, Tencent-backed Vantage Studios, which is able to oversee a lot of the corporate’s flagship franchises, together with Rainbow Six, Murderer’s Creed and Far Cry.

In its Wednesday briefing, Ubisoft additionally confirmed latest studies that it’s closing its Stockholm and (just lately unionized) Halifax studios, with others, together with Star Wars Outlaws developer Huge Leisure as a result of be restructured on account of the brand new mannequin. Ubisoft declined to inform VGC precisely what number of layoffs may happen within the wake of the large-scale reorganization of the corporate.