Roughly 40 builders have been laid off from Ubisoft Toronto, the corporate introduced this week. Regardless of that and a bevy of different cancellations taking place at Ubisoft proper now, the long-awaited Splinter Cell remake stays in improvement.
MobileSyrup was the primary to report on this spherical of layoffs, that are a part of the bigger restructuring Ubisoft has been going by way of to start 2026. “This choice was not taken calmly and doesn’t in any approach mirror the expertise, dedication, or contributions of the people affected,” Ubisoft defined in an announcement to MobileSyrup. “Our precedence now’s to assist them by way of this transition with complete severance packages and sturdy profession placement help.”
In January, Ubisoft revealed its plans to restructure the corporate into a number of totally different Inventive Homes centered on sure franchises. This got here alongside a wave of layoffs, a return-to-office mandate, and a number of other undertaking cancellations which have triggered builders to go on strike and demand CEO Yves Guillemot’s resignation.
We now know that Ubisoft Toronto is likely one of the impacted studios. It has been a co-developer on a number of Ubisoft video games and led the creation of video games like Watch Canines: Legion and Far Cry 6. At the moment, it is the lead studio on a remake of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell that was first teased in 2021 however has been largely MIA since outdoors of the occasional improvement crew shake-up. The studio was additionally liable for the earlier recreation within the sequence, Splinter Cell: Blacklist.
MobileSyrup confirmed that the Splinter Cell remake continues to be within the works at Ubisoft Toronto after these layoffs, though the builders there have been additionally informed they’d be a “key contributor to a number of co-dev mandates and repair groups” going ahead.