Ubisoft has gone through many rough patches in recent years, but the CEO of Ubisoft, Yves Guillemot, is enacting a plan to save the company.

Recent months have not been exactly good for Ubisoft as they have gone through many layoffs and studio closures due to the less-than-great sales of its recent games. In an interview with Variety, Guillemot spoke about how these lay-offs and closures are all part of a plan to reignite the spark that Ubisoft once had. 

The current idea is to reformat its studios into “Creative Houses.” Essentially, every house will have full responsibility over its assigned brands’ development, plus its profit and loss. They will design new IPs and operate like their own dedicated business with transparent accountability geared toward performance and actual autonomous creativity. 

The latest addition to the creative house project is Vantage Studios, which seems to be in charge of making new games under the Far Cry, Rainbow Six Siege, and Assassin’s Creed IPs. “We have a solid pipeline underway across Vantage Studios. Under the Assassin’s Creed brand, several titles are in development, spanning both single-player and multiplayer experiences, with the ambition to further grow a community that exceeded 30 million players last year,” said Guillemot. He also claimed that they have two ongoing Far Cry projects underway and are putting more resources into Rainbow Six Siege events.

Before all of this restructuring happened, the company cancelled six games from its selection of recognized games, especially the highly anticipated Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. This doesn’t bode very well for the company, even though Guillemot says, “While such decisions are never easy, they allow us to concentrate our talent on the highest-potential projects and ensure that every release meets the quality our players expect.” Despite three of the cancelled games being entirely new IPs, it can only be speculated on what Ubisoft’s current projects are.

Speaking of current projects, one of the only games in development that didn’t get cancelled was the Splinter Cell Remake. This is still a shock because, according to MobileSyrup, Ubisoft just recently laid off 40 employees working on the remake since 2021 from the Toronto office. Even now, Ubisoft says that the game is not cancelled, but judging by recent trends, it could just be a matter of time. Especially so since 1,200 Ubisoft employees went on strike a couple of weeks ago because of the same cost-cutting measures. 

Only time will tell if or when Ubisoft will come out of this restructure still kicking or not. In the meantime, we just have to hope that new Watch Dogs and Assassin’s Creed games will come out soon.

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Bluepoint Games, an American studio specialising in remakes like the God Of War Collection, the Ico & Shadow Of The Colossus bundle, Uncharted Collection and Demon's Souls, has been shut down by Sony after five years of ownership, during which time the company did not release a single remake, with Bloomberg reporting that "roughly 70 employees will lose their jobs" as a result.

Having worked closely with PlayStation for over a decade (the God of War Collection was released in 2009), Sony decided to buy Bluepoint in 2021 and bring them in-house, after which they were promptly...set to work as a support studio on God of War Ragnarok, before then being assigned a live-service God of War game, before that project was cancelled in January 2025.

And today they're done. The studio, first founded in 2006, will be shut down next month. In an internal email sent to PlayStation staff (shared on resetera), Sony Interactive Entertainment Studio Business Group CEO Hermen Hulst says:

...we're operating in an increasingly challenging industry environment. Rising development costs, slowed industry growth, changing player behavior, and broader economic headwinds are making it harder to build games sustainably.

To navigate this reality, we need to continue adapting and evolving. We've taken a close look at our business to ensure we're delivering today while still well-positioned for the future. As a result, we will be closing Bluepoint Games in March.

This decision was not made lightly. Bluepoint is an incredibly talented team and their technical expertise has delivered exceptional experiences for the PlayStation community. I want to thank everyone at Bluepoint for their creativity, craftsmanship, and commitment to quality. Where possible, we will work to find opportunities for some impacted employees within our global network of studios.

I have seen some gross acts of mismanagement in my time covering this industry--it feels like the last three to four years have been nothing but--yet this one somehow feels like the worst. Bluepoint was a studio with a very clear speciality and a very successful track record: they took old PlayStation hits, gave them an update and sold them to new generations of fans.

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For PlayStation themselves to buy Bluepoint, not use them for the one thing they would have bought them for and now close them down is just the most colossal waste. It's industry vandalism, at scale. Former PlayStation boss Jim Ryan, who had live-service game brainworms (see below), deserves some of the scorn here, but the current regime--who have made the decision to close Bluepoint instead of finding something, anything from PlayStation's vast back catalogue for them to work on instead--are equally to blame.

Not pulling this outta my ass either, here's something from Sony's 2022 investor/press thing, where they promised 12 Live Services by 2025. Aside from Helldivers, none of that is paying off, and that was under Jim Ryan who left before shit predictably hit the fan. www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/...

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Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy developer Eidos Montreal has been hit by more layoffs, as a number of former employees have taken to social media to confirm that they have lost their jobs with the company.

Samuel Daher, who worked as a gameplay director at Eidos Montreal, confirmed that they were laid off in a post on LinkedIn: “Hey there!” Was working at Eidos, loved it and would have stayed, but times are difficult.”

Earlier this year, Eidos Montreal revealed that it had laid off 75 staff following completion of a support role for a project at one of its sibling studios within Embracer. In early 2024, Embracer revealed that it had let go 97 staff members at EIdos Montreal and had cancelled development of a Deus Ex project that had been in the pipeline.

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A report in April 2025 had claimed that Eidos Montreal is keen to resurrect the Deus Ex franchise and is regularly pitching new ideas without a publisher having committed to a series revival.

[Source – LinkedIn via Insider Gaming]

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