Developers at Ubisoft Barcelona who worked on Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced are striking over planned redundancies and what they describe as an unfair severance package. Up to 51 jobs at the studio are at risk as Ubisoft narrows the Barcelona team’s future work to the Rainbow Six franchise, and staff say the proposed payouts fall below both expectations and previous terms offered by the company. The dispute matters because it highlights growing labour tensions at Ubisoft during a broader round of cuts, despite the recent commercial success of a game the Barcelona studio helped build.

The wider downsizing affects 380 employees across Ubisoft’s offices in Winnipeg, Belgrade, Barcelona and its global publishing division, with the Belgrade office set to close completely. Around 90 workers joined a strike on 14 July 2026, and another walkout was planned for Thursday 16 July, as negotiations continued over possible job saves and improved severance terms. Although Ubisoft Singapore led development of Black Flag Resynced, Barcelona reportedly spent more than two years contributing main quests, locations including Gibara, contracts, enemy AI, bosses and underwater missions; the game sold 2 million copies in its first 24 hours. The Barcelona cuts also sit within a harsher year for Ubisoft, which has already cancelled six games, closed other studios and announced further layoffs in several locations.