The end of “XDefiant” comes at a tough time for Ubisoft, which delayed the release of its much anticipated “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” from this fall to next February after its weak launch and mixed critical response for “Star Wars Outlaws” had the publisher reconsidering the final product before it was brought to market.

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. As a result, Ubisoft will close its San Francisco and Osaka production studios and ramp down production in Sydney,

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,