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Wildlight Entertainment, the studio behind the new not-hero shooter\u00a0Highguard<\/em>, has reportedly laid off \u201cmost\u201d of its team just weeks after the game launched on January 26.<\/p>\n Level designer Alex Graner posted about the news on his LinkedIn account, saying he\u2019s looking for whatever\u2019s next after he and an unknown number of employees have been let go.\u00a0Kotaku\u00a0<\/em>has reached out to Wildlight for comment and will update the story if we hear back.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, along with most of the team at Wildlight, I was laid off today.<\/p>\n This one really stings as there was a lot of unreleased content I was really looking forward to that I and others designed for Highguard<\/em>.<\/p>\n However, I\u2019m excited for my next adventure. If your team or anyone you know needs an experienced Level Designer, hit me up!<\/p>\n Highguard\u00a0<\/em>was announced in December during the 2025 Game Awards, and it didn\u2019t go over very well with some sides of the internet. Then the team at Wildlight went radio silent for weeks until the game finally launched at the end of January and press and content creators got hands-on time with the game. The response to the final game was a bit lukewarm, albeit still hijacked by weird conspiracy theories that even Game Awards host Geoff Keighley acknowledged, though Wildlight was quick to respond to feedback about the game\u2019s small 3v3 team compositions by adding a 5v5 mode within the first week.<\/p>\n Though the game seemed to struggle in terms of concurrent players, director and studio head Chad Grenier said in an interview with Polygon <\/em>that the team was less concerned with player counts than it was making something its playerbase enjoyed. \u201cWhether it gets a thousand people or a hundred million people, it doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat matters most is that the game is loved by the people who played it.\u201d<\/p>\n This is a developing story\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wildlight Entertainment, the studio behind the new not-hero shooter\u00a0Highguard, has reportedly laid off \u201cmost\u201d of its team just weeks after the game launched on January 26. Level designer Alex Graner posted about the news on his LinkedIn account, saying he\u2019s looking for whatever\u2019s next after he and an unknown number of employees have been let<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3343,271,4135,4302,1212,4115],"class_list":{"0":"post-4615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-releases","8":"tag-highguard","9":"tag-hit","10":"tag-launch","11":"tag-layoffs","12":"tag-studio","13":"tag-weeks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}