Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was a big hit, and now it's time for big layoffs at the studio that made it

Three months after the very successful launch of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, a game that sold two million copies in a single day (three million copies in a week!) and surpassed "annual expectations" in just two weeks, Ubisoft has laid off 70 people from developer Ubisoft Singapore.

This would be reason number two on our list of 25 foolproof ways to get laid off in the videogame industry: Make a game that sells so well, it blows away all expectations and makes even more money than anyone dared hope.

Of course, we've already seen this in play with Black Flag Resynced—Ubisoft Barcelona, a support studio on the game, had nearly a third of its number cut shortly after it launched.

The Ubisoft Barcelona layoffs might seem particularly egregious, coming so soon after it produced a much-needed win for a publisher that's spent the past few years taking big Ls, but it's not the only bad news.

A year after …