Titanfall and Apex Legends devs have a new shooter out in less than 2 months: Highguard launches in January 2026 "with hopes of pushing the shooter genre forward"

The Game Awards 2025 host Geoff Keighley closed out tonight's jam-packed show with the debut of a brand new multiplayer free-to-play FPS from 61 members of the Respawn team that made Apex Legends. It's called Highguard, and with it, new independent studio WildLight Entertainment is hoping to "push to shooter genre forward." Highguard launches on Steam, PS5, and Xbox on January 26.In the game's announcement trailer, which you can check out below, we see various extremely attractive heroes duke it