A week after Ubisoft closed an entire studio, laying off over 70 developers in the process, the publisher is announcing more cost-cutting measures.
First reported by IGN, and confirmed by Ubisoft in a statement, 55 members of Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm are being let go. Ubisoft also added that their decision has nothing to do with “individual performance, recent deliveries, or the quality of the work by the teams.” Instead, this is part of a Voluntary Leave Program, first launched in the fall of 2025, to help provide “clearer visibility into the structure and capacity required to support the two [Massive and Ubisoft Stockholm’s] work and sustainable over time.”
Ubisoft added an additional statement regarding the future for both studios, as well as The Division franchise as a whole.
IGN adds that development on The Division franchise, which Massive Entertainment developed, will be unaffected. Ubisoft Stockholm’s website references that they’re currently working on an unannounced game featuring a new IP, as well as Ubisoft Scalar, a “new foundational technology leveraging the possibilities of cloud computing to enable unprecedented freedom and scale for the games of tomorrow.”
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