#ubisoft-toronto-layoffs

#ubisoft-toronto-layoffs

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The Toronto Maple Leafs have now entered the chat... The Leafs fired general manager Brad Treliving on Monday. He didn't make it three full calendar years in the job, and had one year remaining on his contract.

Wildlight had already suffered a rough few months prior to Highguard's shutdown. The free-to-play shooter launched in January and drew a strong early audience, but momentum didn't last long. Player numbers quickly dwindled and, according to reports, funding partner Tencent pulled support in February, triggering widespread layoffs that reportedly affected the majority of the studio's roughly 200 staff.

On December 22, Ubisoft Halifax announced that 61 of its workers had joined the Game & Media Workers Guild of Canada. At the time, the studio's lead programmer, Jon Huffman, told CTV News that 73.8 percent of employees voted in favor of unionizing. Ominously in hindsight, he had described the decision as a "huge relief." The studio was working on mobile titles within the Rainbow Six and Assassin's Creed franchises.

A multiplayer, co-op Assassin's Creed game was reportedly cancelled by Ubisoft as part of restructuring efforts at the company. The game, codenamed Assassin's Creed League, was in development at Ubisoft's Annecy team, but was shut down recently. The Assassin's Creed title was not among the six other cancelled projects that Ubisoft confirmed last month, according to a report published in French outlet Origami on Thursday.