"On January 26, Highguard's big launch day on PC and consoles, the devs quietly made a small but very interesting change to the game's store page on Steam. Highguard's original Steam description said this: From the creators of Apex Legends and Titanfall, comes Highguard: a PvP raid shooter where players will ride, fight, and raid as Wardens, arcane gunslingers sent to fight for control of a mythical continent."
"considering the very first words we heard about Highguard publicly from Geoff Keighley included direct mention of these EA-published sci-fi shooters and how the studio behind Highguard was made up of former Titanfall devs. Here's what Geoff said at the 2025 Game Awards before debuting Highguard's first trailer: "Our final world premiere comes from 61 members of the team that built Apex Legends and Titanfall. Four years ago, the principals founded a new, independent studio with the hopes of pushing the shooter genre forward...""
Highguard debuted at the Game Awards and was promoted as coming from developers who helped create Titanfall and Apex Legends. On January 26, the Steam store description that originally read "From the creators of Apex Legends and Titanfall" was edited to remove mention of those franchises and now provides only a basic game description. Geoff Keighley had introduced Highguard by citing team members from Apex Legends and Titanfall, and an Xbox Wire post still references those connections. Xbox and PlayStation store pages omit the references. Kotaku contacted Highguard PR and the developers, and observers have speculated about legal or licensing motives for the change.
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