Ubisoft to Shut Down ‘XDefiant,’ Nearly 300 Employees Laid Off as San Francisco and Osaka Game Studios Close
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business Writer Ubisoft will be shutting down its free-to-play first-person shooter game “XDefiant” in the new year.
On Tuesday, the game publisher announced that new downloads and player registrations would no longer be available for “XDefiant,” though the game would still be releasing its Season 3 content “in the near future” and the game’s servers will be live until June 3.
As a result of the decision to cancel the game, the video game company will be moving half of its employees that work on “XDefiant” into other roles within Ubisoft, and closing its San Francisco and Osaka production studios and reducing the size of its Sydney outpost.
Per Ubisoft, 143 employees are being laid off from the San Francisco office and 134 people are likely to be cut in Osaka and Sydney.
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