Ubisoft lays off dozens of workers as gaming industry struggles drag on
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6G6R2)
Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft, the game publisher behind franchises like Assassin's Creed and Far Cry, is laying off 124 employees at its visual effects studio and on its global IT team.
Hybride - the name of Ubisoft's Montreal-based visual effects studio - has worked on several big-name projects, including Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Beau Is Afraid, and more. Of the 124 impacted workers, Ubisoft spokesperson Antoine Leduc-Labelle says 98 people are based in Canada, making up less than 2 percent of the company's workforce in the country. (Ubisoft has studios in Montreal, Quebec City, Chicoutimi, Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, and Sherbrooke.) Leduc-Labelle adds that this doesn't affect Ubisoft's production teams.
Over the past few months,...