In 2026, an FPS or third-person shooter has a huge bar to overcome. Highguard has the ambition and execution to possibly do that. Wildlight Entertainment’s core creative and executive team is comprised of developers and heads from Respawn Entertainment, bringing major successful experience from Apex Legends and the Titanfall games. Highguard has been under development for about four years, since the independent game studio was formed back in 2021.
Wildlight Entertainment’s hurdles became worse after Highguard was announced at the prime, last slot for The Game Awards 2025—having the host Geoff Keighley fully backing the game. Audiences immediately shared their thoughts online to roast the unreleased game, already deeming it a generic, about-to-be-cancelled hero-shooter situation that would lead to the results of games such as XDefiant and Concord. However, this team is confident that players will enjoy this one, as long as they give it a chance.
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