Highguard started life as a survival shooter, and Tencent pulled funding two weeks after launch, a new report claims
Tencent allegedly pulled funding from the multiplayer shooter Highguard just two weeks after its January 26 launch, leading to layoffs of most of the 100-person team at developer Wildlight. The report suggests the game failed to meet Tencent's metrics, with fewer than 20 employees remaining at the studio. Highguard's development was marked by a pivot from a survival-shooter concept to a more crowded competitive shooter space, resulting in a complex core gameplay loop.
- Entities
- Game: Apex Legends
- Company: Tencent
- Topic: Business
- Topic: Survival Shooter
- Topic: Game Development
- Company: Wildlight
- Game: Overwatch
- Game: Marathon
- Game: Highguard
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