Ubisoft Announces Layoffs at The Division and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Studio Massive Entertainment

Ubisoft is laying off workers at its Swedish studios, Massive Entertainment and UBiSoft Stockholm as part of its cost-cutting drive. Ubisoft said about 55 roles at the two subsidiaries could be affected by the restructuring — a move that comes after ‘voluntary redundancy scheme’. Its company said the cuts were “forward-looking and structural” and related to employees’ performance.

Ubisoft Announces Layoffs

Ubisoft also told employees at Malmo-based Massive and UBiSoft Stockholm that the organisational restructure would be proposed Tuesday, in a statement shared with IGN.

It comes after a fall 2025-year-old “Voluntary Leave Program” was completed. It had completed a long-term plan and staffing and appointment process, Ubisoft said it was “clearer in the structure and capacity required to support the work of the two studios and sustainably over time” (e.g.

They are forward-looking and structural, they do not relate to individual performance (new deliveries or the quality of work produced by teams), Ubisoft said.

Massive to Focus on The Division Franchise

Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, which is a non-performing game on external IP, will now be focused on The Division franchise from Massive Entertainment, the studio behind Star Wars Outlaws and AVAtar; both games that have not been played by any other company. It currently focuses on the studio’s work on The Division 3 with . Earlier in an interview with franchise executive producer Julian Gerighty, the follow-up to The Division 2 was being produced.

Massive also is on The Division 2 Survivors, a survival extraction mode for The division 2, which will launch in 2026, and the series of two sequels to follow.

The long-term direction of the studios is unchanged, and we will remain as the home base for a global franchise (the lead to To division), move forward with an unannounced innovative tech project that has been developed in ‘highly sophisticated teams team structure’; play primarily responsible for Snowdrop and Ubisoft Connect development.

It comes a week after Ubisoft announced it was closing down its Halifax studio, which is shutting down the latest round of layoffs. The cuts affected 71 jobs at the mobile game developer, who was hit by the cuts.

Vantage Studios was released in October by Ubisoft as part of a larger restructuring supported by Tencent, which led to the launch of Vantag Studios. It will also be home to the French company’s three biggest franchisees Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six, which is owned by co-CEOs Christoph ERIES and Charlie Guillemot in their new subsidiary Vantage.