According to a new report from Insider Gaming, Ubisoft Barcelona just lost 51 employees. According to Insider Gaming's anonymous sources close to the studio, many of these 51 Ubisoft Barcelona developers had worked on Assassin's Creed Black Flag resync before the recent redundancies.
After years of speculation, leaks and rumors, Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake is finally on store shelves and in players' hands. Ahead of the remake's release today, the review embargo was officially lifted, and critics generally had very positive things to say about the long-running stealth-action franchise's latest entry. Over at OpenCritic, Assassin's Creed Black Flag resync has a Top Critic Average of 86 and a recommendation score of 94%. GameRant's own Joshua Duckworth provided Assassin's Creed Black Flag resync a 9/10 in his review, saying that “creatively, Ubisoft has never been better.”
Ubisoft Barcelona has lost 51 employees
Towards the end of June, reports surfaced that 51 employees at Ubisoft Barcelona were facing potential layoffs. The studio tried to fight these layoffs by striking (through the official Video Game Union Coordinating Committee) every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon until July 16. A new report from Insider Gaming's Tom Henderson confirms that those 51 employees were indeed laid off and that the Ubisoft Barcelona team has been disbanded.
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Anonymous sources familiar with the internal performance Assassin's Creed Black Flag resync reportedly told Insider Gaming that the game was “very successful,” at least in terms of pre-release interest and pre-orders. Despite this early success and the game's very positive critical reception, anonymous sources affected by these Ubisoft layoffs told Insider Gaming that the layoffs felt “premeditated” and would happen regardless Black flag the critical or commercial performance of the remake.
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These developers felt this way because Ubisoft Barcelona had not been assigned a new project before Assassin's Creed Black Flag resyncs launch. According to these developers, it is common for Ubisoft higher ups to assign new projects to studios long before their current projects have shipped. However, despite the studio expressing concern that it did not have another project lined up for the summer of 2025, it was never given a new assignment. An event to celebrate Ubisoft Barcelona shipping Assassin's Creed Black Flag resynced is also said to have been canceled and replaced by a small office celebration.
An anonymous source affected by the latest wave of layoffs from Ubisoft provided the following statement to Insider Gaming:
“These layoffs coincide with the broader context of ongoing workplace issues. This is not an isolated incident; it reflects a pattern of persistent mistreatment, loss of talent, forced resignations as a result of the erosion of workers' rights, and an increasingly top-down management culture that leaves employees with little voice in decisions that affect their work.”
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Unfortunately, it's far from the first layoffs to hit Ubisoft's staff this year alone. Back in February, the Splinter cell Remake studio Ubisoft Toronto was hit with layoffs affecting at least 40 employees. Then Ubisoft-owned Red Storm Entertainment had its own layoffs in March, reportedly eliminating over 100 developers and effectively canceling a total of 10 games that were in various stages of development.
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9 July 2026
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Mature 17+ / Blood, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol, Violence / In-Game Purchases, User Interaction
