Another 40 workers lost their jobs as part of Ubisoft’s cuts and savings. This time they cut the studio in Toronto, which is currently developing the Splinter Cell Remake.
Ubisoft continues to reduce its workforce, and this time the victim is the studio in Toronto.
In total 40 employees of that studio will be laid offand Ubisoft already notes that this difficult decision does not reflect their talent and contribution to the company. Simply put – layoffs are part of savings to improve the company’s financial condition.
Ubisoft Toronto normally prepares remake of the original Splinter Celland after these dismissals, it was emphasized that the development of that game continues. In other words, the project hasn’t been canceled… although in the current mess at Ubisoft, there’s no guarantee they won’t write it off later.
The remake of Splinter Cell was announced four years ago, and in that period we only saw a few concept drawings and nothing else. The game’s director, David Grivel, left Ubisoft in 2022 and returned to the same position three years later.
Splinter Cell is a franchise that in the last decade has had everything and anything but new games. Sam Fisher made guest appearances in Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon, and the themed series lent its motifs and characters to the mobile game Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad, as well as the failed multiplayer project XDefiant. We got the animated series Splinter Cell Deathwatch on Netflix last year, and in the meantime, the new Splinter Cell game that was in development for VR devices was canceled.