Ubisoft has officially announced that it will be shutting down XDefiant, its free-to-play live-service shooter that was meant to compete with the likes of Call of Duty and Battlefield. Ubisoft, which has sometimes struggled to retain player interest in the ...

Many individuals are curious about why Ubisoft shut down its recently launched game, XDefiant. The publisher announced the free-to-play first-person shooter game back in 2021. After developing it for a year and gaining traction in its beta versions via Twitch,

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.