A little over six months after its launch, Ubisoft has announced that it will shut down XDefiant, its free-to-play first-person shooter, in 2025.

Almost half of the XDefiant team worldwide will transition to other roles within Ubisoft, the exec claimed, but San Francisco and Osaka production studios will close, and its Sydney production site will ramp down, with 143 people departing in San Francisco and 134 people “likely to depart” in Osaka and Sydney.

Many individuals are curious about why Ubisoft shut down its recently launched game, XDefiant. The publisher announced the free-to-play first-person shooter game back in 2021. After developing it for a year and gaining traction in its beta versions via Twitch,