Star Wars Outlaws developer Huge Leisure and Ubisoft Stockholm face layoffs

We aren’t even two weeks into the brand new 12 months and Ubisoft is already trying 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 might have an effect on round 55 roles throughout its two Swedish studios. Employees at Huge (the developer of The Division sequence, Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora) had been offered voluntary buyouts late final 12 months as a part of Ubisoft’s ongoing cost-cutting efforts.

“This restructure follows the completion of the Voluntary Depart Program launched in the course of the fall of 2025, a finalized long-term roadmap and a accomplished staffing and appointment course of, which collectively have offered clearer visibility into the construction and capability required to assist the 2 studios’ work and sustainably over time,” Ubisoft advised IGN in a press release. “These proposed adjustments are forward-looking and structural, they aren’t associated to particular person efficiency, current 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 underneath wraps for now. That mission is harnessing the studio’s Ubisoft Scalar cloud computing tech, in accordance with Game Developer.

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