In a statement reported by GI.biz, Ubisoft has announced its “proposal” to close Finnish studio Ubisoft RedLynx, the long-time creators of the fantastic Trials series of motorbike stunt games. This is the latest move in the flailing publisher’s grim 2026, a part of the ongoing “restructuring” of the worldwide network of development teams into so-called creative houses. The latest job losses will also hit Ubisoft Singapore, the team responsible for 2024’s “quadruple A” $200 million-loss disaster, Skull and Bones, with 70 staff losing their roles.

For Ubisoft, closing RedLynx isn’t as simple as some of the other studios it’s killed off over the last year. Finland has specific laws called “change negotiations” or “co-operation negotiations,” where it’s legally required for employers to consult with employees before layoffs and large company changes. Clearly closing the 25-year-old studio, acquired by Ubisoft in 2011, would very much fall under those categories, and the law specifically requires such actions to be “anticipatory,” meaning an employer must enter the negotiations before it’s made a decision over the result. Hence Ubisoft’s wording to say that this closure is a “proposal” at this stage.

RedLynx was already hit hard in 2025 when Ubisoft laid off more than half its workforce, and announced the remaining team would be focused solely on making mobile games.

” In the seven years since the last Trials release, RedLynx aided Massive on the porting of The Division 2 to Google’s doomed Stadia streaming service for 2020, and in 2023 released a very short-lived free-to-play mobile match-3 game called Gwen’s Getaway , that was taken down after a year before it ever reached a finished version.

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