SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Video game publisher Ubisoft is shutting down its San Francisco studio, the company announced in a press release this week. The move will lead to 143 employees being laid off.

Ubisoft is delisting XDefiant and plans to close servers after the FPS game’s third season ends, a move that coincides with two studio closures and nearly 300 layoffs. Ubisoft made the ...

the video game company will be moving half of its employees that work on “XDefiant” into other roles within Ubisoft, and closing its San Francisco and Osaka production studios and reducing the ...

Ubisoft (UBSFY) plans to shut down multiplayer ... Layoffs will affect a “significant number” of employees at the San Francisco studio and supporting studios, with some workers already ...

As a result, Ubisoft will close its San Francisco and Osaka production studios and ramp down production in Sydney, leading to a loss of 143 jobs in San Francisco and a likely reduction of 134 people ...

On top of all this, Ubisoft is also transitioning “almost half of the XDefiant team worldwide” to other roles, and eliminating the rest of the game’s staff. The company’s San Francisco and Osaka ...

and had last month closed three production studios in high-cost cities, including San Francisco and Osaka. Ubisoft has a lot riding on the latest instalment of its flagship "Assassin's Creed ...