Ubisoft is preparing to close RedLynx, the Finnish studio known for the Trials motorbike games, and to lay off 70 people at Ubisoft Singapore, Video Games Chronicle reported on October 14, 2026. The information comes from VGC’s own sources; the report does not include an official statement from Ubisoft.
What is planned for each studio
According to VGC, Ubisoft has been reviewing its studios based on their current projects and their long-term sustainability. RedLynx is not working on a new project, and the company believes that reducing its size would not be enough to make it sustainable, so it will propose shutting it down. The plan would affect about 52 employees.
Because the studio is in Finland, the closure is not final yet. Finnish law requires change negotiations, a formal consultation between company and staff, whenever an employer with at least 50 workers makes decisions that affect jobs.
In Singapore, the plan is to restructure and shrink the studio, with 70 layoffs, as part of the same review.
Two studios with long histories
RedLynx was founded in Helsinki in 2000 and was acquired by Ubisoft in 2011. Its best-known games are part of the Trials series:
- Trials HD, its breakout hit on Xbox Live Arcade
- Trials Evolution, Trials Frontier and Trials Fusion
- Trials of the Blood Dragon
- Trials Rising, released in 2019
In October 2025, Ubisoft had already announced up to 60 job cuts at RedLynx as the studio refocused on mobile games. Its mobile game Gwen’s Getaway soft-launched in 2023 and closed in December 2024. More recently, the studio supported Massive Entertainment’s Nintendo Switch 2 port of Star Wars Outlaws.
Ubisoft Singapore was founded in 2008 to build a production network in Southeast Asia. It has supported most Assassin’s Creed games, and it led development of Skull and Bones and Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced.
What is still unknown
The report does not say what will happen to the Trials brand or to the studio’s games, and Ubisoft has not publicly confirmed the plans. The final number of jobs lost at RedLynx will depend on the outcome of the negotiations in Finland.
This article was written with AI assistance from the sources linked above.
