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Wildlight Deletes Website and LinkedIn, Signaling Likely Closure

The disappearance of its website plus LinkedIn suggests the studio is winding down following mass layoffs, with Highguard offline since March 12.

Overview

  • Wildlight’s official site now returns a 404 and its LinkedIn page has been removed, according to new reports today.
  • Highguard’s servers were shut down on March 12, about 45 days after release, following a final update.
  • The studio executed mass layoffs last month that left only a small team to ship one last patch.
  • Co-founder Chad Grenier indicated he is moving on, and his LinkedIn now shows his Wildlight role ending this month.
  • Reports say Tencent was a primary backer and withdrew funding after a steep player decline from an early near-100,000 Steam peak.