Tencent's Secret Bet on Highguard Collapsed in Two Weeks

Tencent's TiMi Studio Group secretly funded Wildlight Entertainment, then pulled backing just two weeks after Highguard's troubled launch, gutting a 100-person team.

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When 'Competitive' Becomes a Curse Word: The Highguard Post-Mortem

Former Wildlight level designer Alex Graner says Highguard leaned too far into competitive 3v3 play, helping drive a catastrophic player collapse after launch.

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Say what you want about the game, but the way this was handled from top to bottom was the worst.

I hope for the best for the team!

Highguard dev hit with mass layoffs as "most of the team at Wildlight" is let go

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fps/highguard-dev-hit-with-mass-layoffs-as-most-of-the-team-at-wildlight-is-let-go/

#Highguard #Devs #Wildlight #Layoffs #Labor #Gaming

The Studio Behind Highguard Has Laid Off Most of Its Staff - FullCleared

Wildlight Entertainment reportedly laid off most of its staff following Highguard's January 26 launch, just two months after TGA 2025 reveal.

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Highguard rende permanente la modalità raid 5v5: la community esulta

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.galaxyaddicted.it/2026/02/highguard-modalita-raid-5v5-permanente/

Well, I don't see #Highguard being a game that breaks 10K players next year.

You know what happens when small studios, especially fully self-funded ones, stumble: layoffs, studio closure, server closing, and the foreclosure of those who bet their house.

Unless they have a very good marketing campaign, it's going to fail, because it offers nothing new we haven't seen from other games.

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If I had a wishlist for a new evolution in #Titanfall, it would be an exploration of how Titanfall’s PvPvE game modes that make pilots feel as superpowered as they should and Titans feel as intimidating as they are can be merged with #Battlefield’s or #Helldivers’ large-scale objective-based combat. Like what’na hell happened to the Titan gamemode in Battlefield? I want to shoot down a hovering aircraft carrier using a 25 ft mech! #FPS #WildLight #Respawn #Highguard #InfinityWard #TheGameAwards
Like, maybe, MAYBE they can innovate again like they did with the multiplayer in all 4 of the aforementioned games, but to pretend that Titanfall’s David vs Goliath mechanics have been explored to their fullest potential and that F2P hero-based/open-world shooters haven’t sounds like an epitomized fallacy to me.
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