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And there's more.

Ubisoft has also proposed closing RedLynx, the Finnish developer best known for the Trials series.

That process involves consultation and isn't a finalized closure, but I've got a soft spot for Trials.

Those games understood something that a lot of modern releases seem to have forgotten.

you don't need an enormous world to create something compulsively playable sometimes you just need a motorcycle a series of increasingly ridiculous obstacles and the confidence that the player will try the same section 47 times before finally clearing it i have no frustration with this series at all the brilliance though is in this design and red links developed an expertise for that particular kind of game that's the part that bothers me about losing specialized studios it isn't simply the number of employees that are involved it's the accumulated knowledge the instincts the experience the people who've spent years figuring out how to make one thing feel just right you can't necessarily replace that by hiring another team in six months and that's a strange contrast with our first story rockstar has thousands of people working on one enormous game Ubisoft is cutting people after a game that exceeded expectations, and the industry keeps talking about how difficult it is to make successful games.

Not much news this week, but I think it's because lots of stuff's coming out, so... um we'll do our best but we've got a pretty uh interesting pick of the week so more on that in a moment so first off in terms of news uh our top story is that ubisoft them that keep changing It proposes the closure of RedLynx and cuts to a Singapore studio.

Ubisoft put forward proposals to close Helsinki-based RedLynx, known for the development of the Trials series, and has issued redundancy proceedings for 70 additional roles in Singapore.

The proposed restructuring puts 52 roles at risk in Finland, following previous reductions across the publisher's global workforce.

So we talked about this before, so this is Ubisoft yet again trimming more from their business.

But, I mean, I don't think there's been much from Red Links for a while.

I wasn't going to look.

Because I think the last Trials game was a few years ago.

Let's have a look what they released recently.

Uh, Ubisoft has announced it's shutting down RedLynx.

This is the developer of Trials, which, uh, I've enjoyed many Trials games.

Man.

Yeah.

This is a bummer situation.

RedLynx was founded in 2000.

They released Trials as a browser game, then they released Trials HD on Xbox Live Arcade in 2009.

Oh.

But at any rate, um, yeah, just disappointing to see.

Um, beyond that, uh, and some more somber news, RedLynx, the makers of the Trials series, are gonna be shutting down according to Ubisoft.

So I don't know if you've played any of the Trials games over the last 20 years, but, like, from the original Trials all the way up to, what was the last one? Trials Fusion?

Mm.

Or one of...

A- anyway, there was a bunch of Trials games [laughs] until about the, the early 2020s, uh, and they were all pretty incredible, and they did some pretty unique stuff.

Um, a- it, it's really sad to see that, that studio get shuttered just because Ubisoft didn't have a plan for them.

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