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Ubisoft to Shut Down ‘XDefiant,’ Nearly 300 Employees Laid Off as San Francisco and Osaka Game Studios Close
Ubisoft will be shutting down its free-to-play first-person shooter game "XDefiant" in the new year.
The end of “XDefiant” comes at a tough time for Ubisoft, which delayed the release of its much anticipated “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” from this fall to next February after its weak launch and mixed critical response for “Star Wars Outlaws” had the publisher reconsidering the final product before it was brought to market. A few years ago, Ubisoft and the SF Dev team embarked on a bold adventure to develop a new arcade shooter called XDefiant. Not only were we trying to shake up the genre by removing Skill-Based Matchmaking (SBMM) while bringing back a more “old-school” arcade shooter experience, but we were also diving into the high-risk, high-reward realm of free-to-play.
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