Ubisoft has announced that they are shutting down Ubisoft Halifax as part of a company-wide cost-cutting and restructuring moves. The decision was announced to staff in an e-mail on Wednesday. Ubisoft Halifax is the studio behind the mobile title Assassin’s Creed Rebellion.

Just last month, Ubisoft Halifax made news when 60 workers formed a union, signing up to the Game & Media Workers Guild of Canada. Ubisoft has claimed the decision has nothing to do with the union, and that the decision to close down Halifax was made “well before” the union was formed, and that Ubisoft “fully respects” employees’ rights to unionize.

In a statement, an Ubisoft spokesperson said: “Over the past 24 months, Ubisoft has undertaken company-wide actions to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. As part of this, Ubisoft has made the difficult decision to close its Halifax studio. 71 positions will be affected. We are committed to supporting all impacted team members during this transition with resources, including comprehensive severance packages and additional career assistance.”

Recently, Assassin’s Creed Rebellion, which launched in 2018 as a free-to-play strategy RPG, had ended its live operations and new content had stopped being produced for the games after declining revenue.

Ubisoft has had a troubling few years. Towards the end of 2025, the Assassin’s Creed publisher opened a subsidiary part-owned by Tencent, Vantage Studios, which now oversees the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Ubisoft has claimed that it is shifting towards a less centralized operating model, in an effort to give creative teams more ownership of the brands they work on.


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