The publishers of Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft, carry out the next round of dismissals as part of the extensive efforts to convince investors to stop screaming at them. They allow 185 people to travel around Europe and close the British company Ubisoft Leamington, whose last projects include supporting the development of Star Wars Outlaws and Skull and Bones. All this less than two months after releasing hundreds of people working on the free Xdefiant shooter.
“As part of our continuous efforts to prioritize projects and reduction of costs ensuring long -term stability in Ubisoft, we have announced targeted restructuring in Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Reflections and the permanent closing of the Ubisoft Leamington headquarters” – reads the statement in VGC. “Unfortunately, this should affect 185 employees in total. We are deeply grateful for their contribution and we commit ourselves to support them during the transition period. ”
Bloomberg claims that the company’s founders, the Guillemot brothers and Chinese publishers Tencent – both minority shareholders – are trying to set up a kind of up-to-date undertaking consisting of Ubisoft corporate assets.
Ubisoft Leamington is formerly FreestyLegames, founded in 2002 by former Rare and Codemasters creators. They created the Breakdance B-Boy simulator on PSP. Activision bought them in 2008 and used to work on various music games, including the good DJ Hero reputation in 2009 and Guitar Hero Live in 2015. In the face of a decrease in interest in rhythmic games based on Activision peripheral devices, he withdrew freestyle and eventually sold them to Ubisoft in 2017. Since then, they have been cooperating with Ubisoft Reflections based in Newcastle as a support studio.
Other Ubisoft programmers pay tribute to the team on social media, including Lauren Stone, director of the narrative Tom Clancy’s the Division 2. “If you liked secret tasks, the Leamington SPA team led this function,” she said wrote. “Working with them was a pleasure and I consider it a huge loss. They were one of my favorite colleagues. I hope that they will soon find a safe haven to anchor. ”
I wish you good luck to everyone who touches it all in Leamington, Newcastle, Düsseldorf, Stockholm and elsewhere.
