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Highguard<\/em>, a new multiplayer shooter from developers who worked on games like Apex Legends<\/em> and 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 says that<\/a> \u00ab\u00a0most of the team at Wildlight\u00a0\u00bb was laid off today, which was backed up by former lead tech artist Josh Sobel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Today 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,\u00a0\u00bb Wildlight says in a \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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