XDefiant Shuts Down In June 2025, Ubisoft Closes Two Offices

Ubisoft has announced that XDefiant will shut down on June 3, 2025. Moreover, Ubisoft is closing down its workplace in Osaka, Japan, in addition to San Francisco.

Ubisoft defined that beginning in the present day, December 3, additional downloads, participant registrations, and purchases of XDefiant are now not out there. Nonetheless, XDefiant’s third season will proceed as deliberate and the sport might be playable till the shutdown date.

“In the present day, Ubisoft introduced that it’s going to discontinue growth on XDefiant, its free-to-play first-person shooter title. In consequence, half of the XDefiant crew worldwide might be transitioning to different roles inside Ubisoft,” Ubisoft mentioned in a press release to GameSpot.

“This choice additionally results in the closing of our San Francisco and Osaka manufacturing studios and to the ramp down of our Sydney manufacturing website, with 143 individuals departing in San Francisco and 134 individuals prone to depart in Osaka and Sydney.”

In a sunsetting message, govt producer Mark Rubin mentioned that XDefiant amassed a complete of 15 million gamers. XDefiant was billed as a competitor to Name of Responsibility and tried to distinguish itself by eradicating skill-based matchmaking in favor of a extra “old-school” arcade shooter expertise.

Again in September, Ubisoft denied studies of XDefiant dropping gamers. In October, Rubin confirmed that the sport’s second season was nonetheless deliberate and refuted claims that the sport was going to be shut down.

In GameSpot’s XDefiant assessment, we mentioned, “Fight is pleasing sufficient that it is nonetheless eminently playable, and XDefiant’s foundations are ripe for enchancment. Competitors is stiff, although, and there are higher choices on the market that are not as conflicted.”