{"id":891725,"date":"2026-02-11T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/highguard-studio-hit-with-layoffs-former-dev-says-most-of-the-team-is-gone\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:12:08","slug":"highguard-studio-hit-with-layoffs-former-dev-says-most-of-the-team-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/highguard-studio-hit-with-layoffs-former-dev-says-most-of-the-team-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Highguard Studio Hit With Layoffs, Former Dev Says &#8220;Most Of The Team&#8221; Is Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment Despite Highguard releasing less than three weeks ago, it appears that the game&#8217;s developer, Wildlight Entertainment, has already been hit with large-scale layoffs. The news comes not long after studio head Chad Grenier made news by saying &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221; whether the game gets &#8220;a thousand people or a hundred million people.&#8221;In a post shared via LinkedIn&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/highguard-studio-hit-with-layoffs-former-dev-says-most-of-the-team-is-gone\/1100-6538120\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Christeen Noren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Highguard releasing less than three weeks ago, it appears that the game&#8217;s developer, Wildlight Entertainment, has already been hit with large-scale layoffs. The news comes not long after studio head Chad Grenier made news by saying &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221; whether the game gets &#8220;a thousand people or a hundred million people.&#8221;In a post shared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":891726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1798,147626,22626],"tags":[147625,6347],"class_list":{"0":"post-891725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-highguard","9":"category-studio","10":"tag-highguard","11":"tag-studio"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}