Industry Analysis
When Ubisoft announced XDefiant, they promised a game that would shake up the shooter genre. Fast forward to today: empty servers, broken promises, and another free-to-play dream bites the dust. By June 2025, it'll join the growing list of games that aimed for the stars but barely left the ground.
Ubisoft shutters its Leamington studio and cuts 185 positions across Europe as the publisher continues to restructure amid recent game struggles.
Studios are crumbling. Since last year, over 23,000 lost their jobs. Not just junior devs - entire teams vanished. Veterans with decades of experience found themselves stranded. January 2024 hit particularly hard: 6,000 jobs gone in a single month.