{"id":82934,"date":"2026-06-10T21:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/82934\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:47:24","slug":"video-game-company-ubisoft-shutters-winnipeg-studio-affecting-about-65-employees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/82934\/","title":{"rendered":"Video game company Ubisoft shutters Winnipeg studio, affecting about 65 employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video game giant Ubisoft has closed its studio in Winnipeg, affecting around 65 employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Company spokesperson Caroline Stelmach confirmed the closure in an email on Wednesday, saying no other studios in Canada were affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Winnipeg studio opened in 2019, employing Manitobans while also recruiting across Canada and internationally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The closure comes after the company said in 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/ubisoft-expansion-winnipeg-1.6389941\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:it planned to triple its Winnipeg workforce;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;it planned to triple its Winnipeg workforce&quot;}\" class=\"link \">it planned to triple its Winnipeg workforce<\/a> to 300 employees by 2030, by hiring additional programmers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The France-based company is best known for its Assassin&#8217;s Creed series and has also produced numerous other games, such as Brawlhalla, Tom Clancy&#8217;s Ghost Recon and Just Dance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Winnipeg closure comes after the company announced in January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/ubisoft-studio-halifax-closed-9.7036470\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:it had closed its Halifax studio;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;it had closed its Halifax studio&quot;}\" class=\"link \">it had closed its Halifax studio<\/a>, putting 71 employees there out of work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an emailed statement, Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham called the latest update &#8220;very difficult news&#8221; for those who lost their jobs, but said the closure was &#8220;a Ubisoft issue, not a Winnipeg issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gillingham said Wednesday Ubisoft has been &#8220;restructuring globally for several years, closing studios and laying off thousands of employees across multiple countries,&#8221; but he&#8217;s confident in Winnipeg&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video game giant Ubisoft has closed its studio in Winnipeg, affecting around 65 employees. Company spokesperson Caroline Stelmach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4648,32424,84],"class_list":["post-82934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-scott-gillingham","tag-ubisoft","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}