The story of Highguard reads like a fever dream, marked by an oddly timed Game Awards trailer, surprisingly encouraging player numbers at launch, a flurry of large-scale updates, and then, just weeks after launch, the abrupt laying off of most of the development team. The game isn’t dead and in fact is still getting updates …
Ex Highguard developers blame “hubris” for the game’s failure in new report, with studio leaders convinced they had another Apex Legends on their hands