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.

Ubisoft will close down two of its global studios, one in San Francisco, USA, and the other in Osaka, Japan, as the publisher continues slashing costs.