Games studio jobs losses after owner ‘repositions’

TYNESIDE video games studio Ubisoft Reflections has told how its global owner is seeking to reposition itself in an "evermore complex and competitive market" after 100 redundancies across two studios.

- COREENA FORD

Ubisoft Reflections forms part of the global group Ubisoft Entertainment SA group, based in France, which operates more than 45 studios based in 30 countries, creating some of the most popular video games on the market. At the start of the year the company’s bosses in Paris appointed advisors to help to reshape the global group, setting out plans to make cost reductions of around €200m - a move which included around 185 job losses across a number of European sites.

That number included redundancies to be made in the North East and the Leamington Spa studio, which it also announced was to close. Now the Newcastle business, which has been behind bestselling games including Driver, Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed, has published accounts for the year ended March 2025 - its 40th trading year which outline how 100 redundancies have been made across Tyneside and Leamington Spa in the current financial year.