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.

Ubisoft's first-person shooter XDefiant, which launched less than six months ago with some success, will shut down on June 3, 2025. As part of that, the studio will close three production studios and lay off 277 employees.

Rocksmith studio Ubisoft San Francisco is shutting down alongside the company’s Osaka, Japan studio as their latest project XDefiant has bombed. After a series of denials, Ubisoft has confirmed that its free-to-play shooter failed to make its mark in a highly competitive market,

Remember when Ubisoft announced that Star Wars Outlaws would get a new creative director and that things would finally improve for the company? Company executives made sure to kill that joyful feeling and lock in a grim conclusion to a nightmare year,