Job losses to be made at Newcastle video games studio amid European shake-up

Jobs losses are set to be made at a Tyneside video games studio responsible for blockbuster games including Assassin’s Creed, amid a group shake-up.

Ubisoft Reflections forms part of the global group Ubisoft, the French headquartered business with more than 45 studios around the world, creating some of the biggest and best selling video games on the market. Last month, however, the firm’s bosses in Paris announced they had appointed advisors to take “decisive steps” to reshape the group amid efforts to make cost reductions of around €200m.

Now the Newcastle business has announced that it is set to make 185 job losses across a number of European sites, with a total of 100 redundancies set to be made across its Ubisoft Reflections studio in Newcastle and Ubisoft Leamington sites. Its base in Leamington, which has 128 employees, will also close permanently.

The announcement follows on from the publication of Ubisoft Reflections’ accounts for the year ended March 2024, in