Let's get the obvious out of the way: XDefiant is one of the worst names for a videogame you'll ever see. Yet underneath the identikit theme and terrible name, XDefiant turned out to be a pretty decent shooter, and following last year's release PCG's Jake Tucker called it "the perfect antidote to those tired of Call of Duty's modern-day bloat".
Despite a strong start, however, player numbers soon fell off, and by the end of 2024 Ubisoft had announced its intention to close down XDefiant by June this year. This was shortly afterwards followed by a real oddity: a massive content drop of everything the devs had been working on. Turned out that a game players had criticised for lacking content actually had a tonne of content more-or-less ready to go.
