{"id":2278295,"date":"2026-02-12T02:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2278295"},"modified":"2026-02-12T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:08:09","slug":"highguards-developer-reportedly-lays-off-most-of-its-staff-just-over-two-weeks-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/highguards-developer-reportedly-lays-off-most-of-its-staff-just-over-two-weeks-after-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Highguard\u2019s developer reportedly lays off \u2018most\u2019 of its staff just over two weeks after launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><em>Highguard<\/em>, a new multiplayer shooter from developers who worked on games like <em>Apex Legends<\/em> and <em>Call of Duty<\/em>, launched just over two weeks ago, but developer Wildlight Entertainment is already cutting jobs at the company, according to posts from affected staffers on LinkedIn. Former Wildlight level designer Alex Graner <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7427480816940892161\/?originTrackingId=%2FqMD4ALWpJvcsmxWmoXMGw%3D%3D\">says that<\/a> \u201cmost of the team at Wildlight\u201d was laid off today, which was backed up by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7427498373676597248\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAIV1iYBHi7OPybalzIKilWBO4bTY5vJb8c\">former lead tech artist Josh Sobel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201dToday we made an incredibly difficult decision to part ways with a number of our team members while keeping a core group of developers to continue innovating on and supporting the game,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WildlightEnt\/status\/2021745168387596450\">Wildlight says in a statement<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re proud of the team, talent, and the product we\u2019ve created together. We\u2019re also grateful for players who gave the game a shot, and those who continue to be a part of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This week, Riot Games also made cuts on a major live service project, laying off about 80 people from its recently-launched <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/876038\/riot-games-2xko-layoffs-job-cuts-league-of-legends\"><em>2XKO<\/em> fighting game<\/a> set in the <em>League of Legends<\/em> universe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><em><strong>Update, February 11th<\/strong>: Added statement from Wildlight.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highguard, a new multiplayer shooter from developers who worked on games like Apex Legends and Call of Duty, launched just over two weeks ago, but developer Wildlight Entertainment is already cutting jobs at the company, according to posts from affected staffers on LinkedIn. Former Wildlight level designer Alex Graner says that \u201cmost of the team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2278296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741,23713,21738],"class_list":["post-2278295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Highguards-developer-reportedly-lays-off-\u2018most-of-its-staff-just.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278297,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278295\/revisions\/2278297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}