Ubisoft plans to close RedLynx, the Finnish studio behind the Trials motorbike series, and has cut 70 jobs at Ubisoft Singapore, the team that led Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. In a statement given to GamesIndustry.biz, Eurogamer and Rock Paper Shotgun on October 14, the publisher said the closure would affect up to 52 positions. Together, the two decisions put about 122 jobs on the line.
The cuts are the latest in a year-long restructuring, alongside a separate push to cut staff at Ubisoft’s German studios.
Trials Fusion (2014), one of five Trials games RedLynx released after Ubisoft bought the studio in 2011. Image: Ubisoft
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What Ubisoft said
“Today, we informed our teams of a proposal to close RedLynx in Finland, subject to the local change negotiation process, which would affect up to 52 positions,” the statement reads. “At Ubisoft Singapore, 70 positions have been impacted to align the studio with upcoming production needs. The studio remains an important part of Ubisoft’s global production organization.”
Ubisoft added that it values “the contributions of both teams” and recognizes “the impact this may have on our colleagues,” and that it will conduct the process “with care and respect.”
The word “proposal” matters. Finnish law requires change negotiations between employer and staff before a company with at least 50 employees makes cuts like these, as VGC, which first reported the plan, explains. So the closure is not final until that process ends.
Why RedLynx, and what happens to Trials
Ubisoft has not given its reasons publicly. According to VGC, a studio review concluded that RedLynx was not working on a new project and that shrinking it further would not make it sustainable. GamesIndustry.biz heard the same. Kotaku disputes part of that, citing a source with direct knowledge who says the team was working on two unannounced projects until very recently.
RedLynx was founded in Helsinki in 2000. Its Xbox Live Arcade hit Trials HD led Ubisoft to buy the studio in 2011, and it went on to release Trials Evolution, Trials Frontier, Trials Fusion, Trials of the Blood Dragon and Trials Rising, which came out in February 2019. Since then it has mostly supported other teams, including on The Division 2’s Stadia version and the Switch 2 port of Star Wars Outlaws, and its mobile game Gwen’s Getaway was shut down in December 2024 after a soft launch. In October 2025, Ubisoft proposed up to 60 layoffs at the studio and moved what was left of it to mobile games.
Ubisoft has not said what happens to the Trials brand, and it has not said whether anything changes for existing games. Trials Rising was still on sale on Steam when we checked on October 15.
Black Flag Resynced, led by Ubisoft Singapore, passed 3.5 million sales in two weeks, according to Eurogamer. Image: Ubisoft
Ubisoft Singapore and the wider restructuring
Ubisoft Singapore opened in 2008 as a support studio and has worked on most entries in the Assassin’s Creed series, including their naval combat. It went on to lead the long-delayed Skull and Bones (2024) and then Black Flag Resynced, which launched in July and passed 3.5 million sales in two weeks, according to Eurogamer. GamesIndustry.biz says the 70 roles are about a fifth of the studio’s staff.
The cuts are part of Ubisoft’s move to a “Creative Houses” structure, which began in January. GamesIndustry.biz counts the closures so far this year: studios in Stockholm, Halifax, Winnipeg and Belgrade, plus six cancelled games. Both RedLynx and Ubisoft Singapore had been placed in the “Creative Network,” the group of studios that support the Creative Houses.
Germany is affected too. As we noted on our live news page, Ubisoft has started talks with the works council about a voluntary departure plan at its Düsseldorf, Berlin and Mainz studios. Game File reports, via Kotaku, that the plan aims for around 100 departures from roughly 600 staff. Its sources describe a buyout of 1.5 months’ salary per year of service, but those terms are not final. The same German teams lost 185 jobs in 2025.
What it means for players
Nothing Ubisoft has announced so far affects games that players already own, whether that’s a Trials game or Black Flag Resynced. The bigger question is Trials itself. No new entry has come out since 2019, and once RedLynx closes, no Ubisoft studio will be dedicated to the series. Unless Ubisoft says otherwise, Trials has no clear future. For the people affected, this is the second round of cuts in about a year at RedLynx. In Singapore, the cuts come a few months after the studio delivered a hit.
What’s next
The RedLynx closure now goes through Finland’s change negotiations. The German buyout terms are still being negotiated with the works council. We’ll update this story if Ubisoft says what happens to Trials or confirms final numbers.
Sources: GamesIndustry.biz (Ubisoft statement), VGC, Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, Kotaku, Game Developer, Game File, Steam.
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