Ubisoft cancelled games leak: AC League killed weeks before alpha, stranding 70+ Annecy staff
Summary
Ubisoft cancelled AC League, a co-op Assassin's Creed title at Ubisoft Annecy, weeks before a planned May 2026 alpha
Over a quarter of Annecy's 270 staff now lack a project; only a "handful" retained for Anvil engine work
The kill is one of six confirmed cancellations alongside studio closures, seven delays, and 200 voluntary cuts at Paris HQ
"As a baseline for future multiplayer features throughout the series"
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AC League shrank from franchise multiplayer platform to standalone before cancellation
AC League was a co-op title for up to four players in scripted assassin missions
Originally scoped as Shadows DLC and intended as the multiplayer template for future AC titles
Directors feared it "would take too long to make" and downsized it to a standalone using Shadows assets
An invite-only alpha was planned for May 2026 when the project was killed
The Shadows season pass that would have concluded AC League's story was already scrapped in the Nov 2024-to-Feb 2025 delay
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Annecy loses its primary project with no disclosed replacement
More than a quarter of Annecy's 270 staff are now without a project
Only a "handful" of employees retained to port technical work into the Anvil engine
No replacement project or redeployment plan has been disclosed
Ubisoft declined to comment when contacted by GamesIndustry.biz
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Six kills, seven delays, and a studio closure mark coordinated pipeline contraction
AC League joins five other cancelled projects including the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake
Ubisoft Stockholm has been closed entirely
Seven additional titles have been delayed
Paris HQ launched a voluntary redundancy process targeting 200 jobs, 18% of that unit's staff
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