Original: The layoffs across the video game industry are getting started early in 2026. Ubisoft has announced the closure of Ubisoft Halifax.
The closure will see 71 people lose their jobs.
The news of the studio’s shutdown comes just days after it was announced that 61 of the studio’s employees joined the Game & Media Workers Guild of Canada, Local 30111. The certification for the union came on December 18, 2025, and was branded as the Ubisoft Workers of Canada, Halifax.
In a statement, Ubisoft says that decision comes after two years of “company-wide actions to streamline operations”.
“Over the past 24 months, Ubisoft has undertaken company-wide actions to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and reduce costs,” the company said. “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.”
The decision, Ubisoft claims, was made “well before” the staff unionized. Ubisoft added that it respected its employees right to join a union. Insider Gaming has reached out for a statement from members of the Union. Should that be received, it will be added to this story.
Prior to its closure, Ubisoft Halifax was working on mobile games for Rainbow Six and Assassin’s Creed.
New extension blocks add support for static extension methods, and static and instance extension properties.
Big C#14 addition I've been wanting since they added extension methods. I think this finally lets us create stateful mixins, and solve some niche use-cases where multiple-inheritance would really be preferable over composition.
They could have easily implemented autosave and versioning on your local machine. They chose to gate it behind keeping your documents in the cloud for profit-motivated reasons.
Plot twist: OP would not stop talking throughout the show and them ruining the finale was the last straw.
What the hell does this say
It's always satisfying when someone I have tagged later confirms that tag.
It would be cool if this evolved into some sort of decentralized internet archive.
The trick is not to read the usernames. I imagine myself surrounded by millions of mostly sensible people!
A good decompiler and an auto-formatter might leave them with a nicer copy of their source code than they had in the first place.
"brown" has left the chat?
I appreciate you exploring your sense of humour, but let's stop using gay as an insult.
Halifax is one of the cheapest places globally to rent office space and employ talented software developers with a CS degree. I am skeptical that it was on the chopping block before now.