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Ubisoft Barcelona, one in every of the studios behind Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, is happening strike following reports that just about a 3rd of its staff were just laid off. There’s an old expression to the effect of take the cash and run and it looks like, a minimum of on the surface, that’s exactly what the publisher is doing. Ubisoft has been restructuring, a polite corp-speak way of stating business-wide layoffs for a while, but this particular round is maybe more painful for the Barcelona branch given the praise recently given for the sport’s successful, record-breaking launch. A flyer has been posted online detailing the layoffs and three-day strike which begins today.
Thanks! Ubisoft Barcelona did all of the underwater levels. And that very same team is being fired at once because Ubisoft thinks thats what we deserve 🙂 https://t.co/rf3p4fGzlH
— Manel Cota (@MaNeo_O) July 13, 2026
The team at Barcelona just isn’t the primary to face the gallows, as Ubisoft Winnipeg and Belgrade have already been cut, and a recent report claims that teams within the U.S. are next. The Guillemot family has been struggling to maintain the publisher afloat, and rumors state that AI is hoped to be a digital savior, but meanwhile, eliminating its human components seems the highest priority. The irony just isn’t hidden that while leadership focused on multiple flops and failed ideas, a studio behind one in every of its biggest releases is having to assist pay the value. Quality assurance lead Isabel Codina García posted on social media that the team had pitched latest Assassin’s Creed projects but as a substitute got their walking papers.
“Vantage Studios has stated there is not going to be further mandates for the Barcelona studio, despite the team proposing latest AC projects. 51 people, myself included, shall be affected by the tip of July.
After 7 years at Ubisoft Barcelona, this just isn’t how I imagined it could end. But I’m genuinely grateful for the people I actually have met and every part I actually have learned along the way in which.”
-Codina García, Quality assurance lead
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