Ubisoft has told staff at RedLynx, the Finnish studio best known for the Trials motorbike series, that it plans to close the studio. In a statement reported on October 14 by Video Games Chronicle and GamesIndustry.biz, the publisher said it had “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 same statement confirmed job cuts at Ubisoft Singapore. “At Ubisoft Singapore, 70 positions have been impacted to align the studio with upcoming production needs,” Ubisoft said, adding that the studio “remains an important part of Ubisoft’s global production organization.” The company said it deeply values “the contributions of both teams” and is “committed to supporting our teams throughout this process and conducting it with care and respect.”
From Trials HD to support work
Ubisoft bought RedLynx in 2011 after the success of Trials 2 and Trials HD, the physics-driven bike game that became one of the breakout hits of the Xbox Live Arcade era. The studio followed up with Trials Evolution, Trials Fusion and, in 2019, Trials Rising. Since then it has mostly worked as a support studio inside Ubisoft, and Nintendo Life notes it handled the Switch 2 version of Star Wars Outlaws. A 2025 restructuring cut staff and refocused the team on small-screen games, and VGC reports the studio currently has no project of its own that Ubisoft considers sustainable.
Ubisoft Singapore opened in 2008 as a support team, helping build the naval combat in Assassin’s Creed, and went on to lead the long and troubled development of Skull and Bones, which launched in 2024. It has since taken the lead on Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. Reports put the 70 lost roles at roughly a fifth of the studio’s staff.
A long restructuring
The cuts are the latest step in a company-wide overhaul that has reorganized Ubisoft into creative houses, cancelled six games, delayed others and closed studios including Stockholm and Halifax. Earlier this month RCG reported that Ubisoft is shutting down Rainbow Six Mobile on Jan. 15.
For now, the RedLynx closure is still a proposal. Finland’s change negotiation process has to run its course before anything is final, so the number of affected roles could still change. For longtime Trials fans, though, the news makes another entry from the team that created the series look very unlikely.
