{"id":2234250,"date":"2026-01-14T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2234250"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:17:10","slug":"ubisoft-proposes-layoffs-at-massive-and-ubisoft-stockholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ubisoft-proposes-layoffs-at-massive-and-ubisoft-stockholm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft proposes layoffs at Massive and Ubisoft Stockholm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-module=\"content\">\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Ubisoft intends to make 55 people redundant at its Swedish studios Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">The French publisher confirmed the news in a <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/ubisoft-layoffs-continue-with-55-staff-at-the-division-studio-massive-and-ubisoft-stockholm-now-impacted\">statement to IGN<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"> and said the proposed restructure follows the completion of a <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/ubisoft-massive-initiates-voluntary-buyouts\">voluntary redundancy program<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"> that commenced in 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">&#8220;Earlier today, we informed all employees in our Swedish studios (Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm) about a proposed organizational restructure that may affect approximately 55 roles across Malm\u00f6 and Stockholm,&#8221; said Ubisoft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">&#8220;[&#8230;] These proposed changes are forward-looking and structural, they are not related to individual performance, recent deliveries, or the quality of the work produced by the teams.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Ubisoft said the long-term direction for both studios &#8220;remains unchanged.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Massive Entertainment is based in Malmo and has worked on major titles such as <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><span class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_italic\">Tom Clancy&#8217;s The Division<\/span><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">, <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><span class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_italic\">Star Wars Outlaws<\/span><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">, and <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><span class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_italic\">Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora<\/span><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Ubisoft Stockholm is currently working on an unannounced new franchise that leverages the studio&#8217;s cloud computing technology, Ubisoft Scalar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_h2 ContentText_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-text\" id=\"Ubisoft continues layoffs after $1.25 billion Tencent \u00a0investment\" style=\"scroll-margin-top:10rem;scroll-snap-margin-top:10rem\">Ubisoft continues layoffs after $1.25 billion Tencent \u00a0investment<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">The news comes around two weeks after <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/ubisoft-closes-halifax-studio-weeks-after-workers-vote-to-unionize\">Ubisoft announced the closure of its Halifax studio<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">, which raised eyebrows given the Canadian studio voted to unionize just weeks earlier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-component=\"related-article\" class=\"RelatedArticle\"><span data-testid=\"related-article-title\" class=\"RelatedArticle-Title\">Related:<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"RelatedArticle-RelatedContent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/ubisoft-to-reconsider-compensation-offered-to-laid-off-halifax-workers\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\">Ubisoft to consider increasing compensation for laid off Halifax workers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Ubisoft indicated the shuttering was unrelated to those unionization efforts, but impacted workers and union representatives at CWA Canada called on the company to prove the decision was based solely on financial necessity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">The Assassin&#8217;s Creed publisher has downsized significantly in recent years, closing studios in Leamington, San Francisco, and Osaka while making layoffs at others in Dussledorf, Newcastle, and Stockholm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Those cutbacks came with the company purportedly seeking financing from outside investors, which it eventually secured when Chinese conglomerate <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/ubisoft-confirms-1-16-billion-tencent-investment-in-new-subsidiary-is-imminent-\">Tencent sunk $1.25 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The division will be helmed by <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/ubisoft-announces-leadership-for-tencent-backed-subsidiary\">Ubisoft Montreal co-founder Christophe Derennes and Charlie Guillemot<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">, who is the son of Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script defer=\"\" async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v18.0\" data-ot-ignore=\"true\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.gamedeveloper.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft intends to make 55 people redundant at its Swedish studios Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm. The French publisher confirmed the news in a statement to IGN and said the proposed restructure follows the completion of a voluntary redundancy program that commenced in 2025.\u00a0 &#8220;Earlier today, we informed all employees in our Swedish studios (Massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2234251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ubisoft-proposes-layoffs-at-Massive-and-Ubisoft-Stockholm.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234253,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234250\/revisions\/2234253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}