The final game announcement that capped off 2025's The Game Awards show was Highguard, the new "PvP raid shooter" from Wildlight Entertainment, a fledgling independent studio led by former Apex Legends and Titanfall developers from Respawn Entertainment. It came out late last month across Xbox, Windows PC, and PS5 on January 26, but just over two weeks later, the future for both the FPS and the team that made it looks bleak.
This week, several (now former) Wildlight devs revealed there have been mass layoffs at the studio, and while the game remains playable, it seems clear it's on life support, and will be maintained by a skeleton crew. One such developer, artist Josh Sobel, has taken to social media to lament Highguard's failure and reflect on how it was perceived by gamers.
