Ubisoft Halifax Shut Down Simply Weeks After Unionization

Ubisoft Halifax, the studio accountable for growing Murderer’s Creed Rebel and dealing on video games like Rainbow Six Cell, has been shut down lower than three weeks after it grew to become Ubisoft’s first North American location to unionize.

In response to an inside employees electronic mail seen by VGC, the choice to shut the Halifax location was made as a part of “company-wide cost-cutting and restructuring measures” (that is VGC’s wording, not Ubisoft’s), and never due to its latest unionization.

In an announcement given to VGC (which is filled with the standard company fluff), Ubisoft stated the closure was resulting from a company-wide push to “streamline operations, enhance effectivity, and scale back prices”, and that Halifax’s 71 workers are being supplied “complete severance packages and extra profession help”.

Ubisoft Halifax’s best-known export might be the cell sport Murderer’s Creed Rebel, and Ubisoft will apparently be halting stay operations for Murderer’s Creed Rebel following “a gentle decline within the sport’s revenues”, in response to Gamesindustry.biz.

As such, whereas the timing of Halifax’s shutdown might sound a bit of suspicious, I might be inclined to consider Ubisoft when it says the choice has been made for cost-cutting causes, as callous as which may sound. In any case, it has been a tough yr for the writer.

2025 noticed Ubisoft making layoffs throughout quite a few studios, together with The Division’s Huge Leisure and Trials’ RedLynx, with longtime Murderer’s Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté apparently leaving the studio after twenty years again in October.

Though Murderer’s Creed Rebel could be coming to an finish, Ubisoft continues to be transferring full steam forward with the collection; a Black Flag remake might be about to be introduced, though Murderer’s Creed Shadows will seemingly buck a latest pattern by not getting a second massive growth.

This is hoping that the oldsters being let go from Ubisoft Halifax discover new jobs shortly, though the present state of the trade means that could be a little bit of a problem. Keep tuned for extra.