Ubisoft will be shutting down its free-to-play first-person shooter game “XDefiant” in the new year. On Tuesday, the game publisher announced that new downloads and player registrations would no longer be available for “XDefiant,

France's largest video game maker Ubisoft has decided to discontinue development on XDefiant, its free-to-play first-person shooter title, it said on Wednesday.

Rocksmith studio Ubisoft San Francisco is shutting down alongside the company’s Osaka, Japan studio as their latest project XDefiant has bombed. After a series of denials, Ubisoft has confirmed that its free-to-play shooter failed to make its mark in a highly competitive market,