In a statement reported by GI.biz , Ubisoft has actually announced its “proposal” to shut Finnish studio Ubisoft RedLynx, the veteran creators of the wonderful Tests series of motorcycle feat video games. This is the most recent relocate the flailing publisher’s grim 2026 , a part of the ongoing “restructuring” of the worldwide network of advancement teams into so-called innovative residences. The most up to date job losses will additionally hit Ubisoft Singapore, the group in charge of 2024’s “quadruple A” $ 200 million-loss catastrophe , Skull and Bones , with 70 team shedding their roles.
For Ubisoft, closing RedLynx isn’t as basic as several of the various other workshops it’s killed off over the in 2014 Finland has actually certain legislations called “change arrangements” or “co-operation arrangements,” where it’s legitimately needed for companies to speak with employees prior to layoffs and large firm modifications. Clearly shutting the 25 -year-old workshop, obtained by Ubisoft in 2011, would certainly quite fall under those categories, and the regulation especially requires such activities to be “awaiting,” meaning a company needs to enter the arrangements before it’s made a decision over the outcome. Thus Ubisoft’s wording to say that this closure is a “proposition” at this phase.
RedLynx was already struck hard in 2025 when Ubisoft gave up over half its labor force , and introduced the remaining team would certainly be concentrated solely on making mobile games
According to VGC , Ubisoft’s motivation to fold RedLynx, and terminate its 52 staff, is that “it’s not presently servicing a new task, and due to the fact that resizing alone wouldn’t keep it sustainable.” In the seven years since the last Tests release, RedLynx assisted Enormous on the porting of The Division 2 to Google’s doomed Stadia streaming solution for 2020, and in 2023 released an extremely brief free-to-play mobile match- 3 video game called Gwen’s Vacation , that was taken down after a year prior to it ever got to a completed variation.
It seems vanishingly not likely that RedLynx actually isn’t dealing with anything, not least due to the fact that Ubisoft formerly claimed a year ago that there were two unannounced jobs in development, and since what else have the 52 staff been doing? It likewise seems unsubstantiated that the workshop would not be working with a brand-new mobile version of Trials , because the 2 D challenge program layout is excellent for touchscreens, and since the technology has actually captured up enough to prevent a repeat of 2014’s frustrating iphone and Android release Trials Frontier
It likewise leaves the inquiry of where this leaves Trials 7 years without a brand-new game has been depressing sufficient, yet does the (intended) closure of RedLynx suggest the franchise is dead permanently? We’ve connected to Ubisoft to ask for even more details.
All mixed-up
On The Other Hand Ubisoft Singapore is being “scaled down.” GI.biz records Ubisoft’s declaration announcing, “At Ubisoft Singapore, 70 settings have actually been impacted to line up the studio with upcoming manufacturing requirements.” The Singapore workshop was initially produced to be among Ubisoft’s international support groups, a group that would work on its colossal AAA video games being led by various other studios, but eventually took on the Sisyphean job of developing Skull and Bones , an 11 -year labor of elaborating Assassin’s Creed ‘s naval battles right into a complete video game, that never ever came together and launched to adverse evaluations and horrible sales.
Since then the workshop took the lead on the even more effective Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced , which presumably would have been hoped to be some sort of respite, specifically after marketing more than 3 5 million duplicates in its very first two weeks. Sadly, likely given the inexperience with which Ubisoft has been competed numerous years , even this hasn’t shown sufficient.
All of this piecemeal “restructuring,” being dragged out so cruelly for as long, certainly isn’t making any type of distinction when it comes to financier’s belief in Ubisoft. Things began to go very incorrect in 2021 when the company’s EUR 84 share rate started to inexorably tumble, crashing to EUR 3 84 in March 2026, and bumbling along at around EUR 5 since. That represents a 95 percent collapse because its 2018 peak at EUR 100 per share, and it’s revealing no signs of recovery.
