{"id":988463,"date":"2026-01-29T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988463"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:14:07","slug":"ubisoft-plans-to-layoff-400-employees-in-2026-studio-closures-and-game-cancellations-also-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/ubisoft-plans-to-layoff-400-employees-in-2026-studio-closures-and-game-cancellations-also-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft plans to layoff 400 employees in 2026, studio closures and game cancellations also planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After news of the cancellation of several projects, including the highly anticipated Prince of Persia remake, Ubisoft has now announced plans for a new round of layoffs. The French video game giant continues to restructure amid persistent financial challenges, multiple studio closures, and the cancellation of several high-profile projects. The latest proposed job cuts follow a turbulent 2025 that saw the company shut down three studios and scrap key titles, deepening investor concerns about its long-term turnaround strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After news of the cancellation of several projects, including the highly anticipated Prince of Persia remake, Ubisoft has now announced plans for a new round of layoffs. The French video game giant continues to restructure amid persistent financial challenges, multiple studio closures, and the cancellation of several high-profile projects. The latest proposed job cuts follow a turbulent 2025 that saw the company shut down three studios and scrap key titles, deepening investor concerns about its long-term turnaround strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}