A California WARN notice for 93 permanent layoffs at Ubisoft's 300 Mission Street office took effect Aug. 10 — the non-development staff left after the 2024 XDefiant studio closure, and the near-end of the French publisher's San Francisco presence amid a €1.3 billion annual loss.

Ubisoft's remaining San Francisco workforce reached its end this week. A California WARN notice covering the permanent layoff of 93 employees at the French publisher's office at 300 Mission Street took effect Aug. 10 — the last large tranche of a presence the company has spent nearly two years winding down.

This is not a fresh filing. The cuts surfaced in June, when GamesIndustry.biz reported 50 to 100 SF roles were on the block; the WARN notice, flagged by the layoff-tracking account @whatlayoff and reported by trade outlet Game Developer on June 22, put the number at 93. Ubisoft has issued no standalone statement on the office, and hasn't disclosed a rationale for the specific cut. It has said affected staff are offered severance and career support — terms unspecified.

What the 93 roles are matters. Ubisoft San Francisco was built around XDefiant, the free-to-play shooter it cancelled in December 2024 and shut down in June 2025, a closure that eliminated roughly 143 development jobs. The office stayed open afterward with non-development staff — IT, marketing, administrative support. This week's notice closes that remainder. Notably, SF was never folded into Vantage Studios, the subsidiary Ubisoft spun up in late 2025 to house Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six alongside a €1.16 billion ($1.25 billion) Tencent investment. SF sat outside the assets Ubisoft chose to protect.

The backdrop is documented distress: a roughly €1.3 billion operating loss for fiscal 2026, and net bookings down 54% year-over-year per the company's May guidance. A January "creative houses" restructuring cancelled six games, delayed seven, and closed the Halifax and Stockholm studios; a June move targeted Winnipeg and Belgrade, an estimated 340 jobs. San Francisco is one line in that ledger.

Still unconfirmed: whether any Ubisoft footprint survives in the city after Aug. 10, what the severance terms are, and whether the company will say anything about San Francisco at all. So far it hasn't needed to — the filings have done the talking.