Ubisoft shutting studios, laying off 277 employees as it pulls plug on live-service shooter XDefiant

It’s a long journey that Ubisoft and the teams working on the game were prepared to make until very recently.

Ubisoft has also confirmed it’s closing its San Francisco and Osaka production studios, and will “ramp down” its Sydney production site.

This equates to a little over half of the XDefiant team worldwide, with Ubisoft noting other employees working on the project will transition elsewhere within the company.