New FPS from Titanfall and Apex Legends devs shows signs of life on Steam after weeks of radio silence, just days before its release date
Highguard might actually live after all
Since Highguard closed out last year's The Game Awards, we've been waiting with bated breath to hear more about the new shooter from Titanfall and Apex Legends devs. Not much has been happening around the forthcoming FPS, and with an apparent release date in less than a week, curiosity is high. Rumblings indicate things are moving, but to what extent remains to be seen.
The game's SteamDB gives us the details. At the time of writing, there have been several recent changes to the product page on Steam, including multiple languages added, a change in user tags, and some updated assets. That may sound like a lot on paper, but it's less than it may seem.
The user tags come with a rather large asterisk, as they're not entirely developer-controlled. What tags are associated with any given product on Valve's store can be altered by recurring descriptors from users. This is to allow players to push back against potentially misleading labels and guide others to games they’ll really want to check out.
A noted change for Highguard is the switch from the 'World War 2' tag to 'Massively Multiplayer', an alteration that’s entirely justified by a quick look at the available screenshots. Highguard is a PvP fantasy experience pretty far removed from the Allies versus the Axis.
What's more intriguing are the different assets that've been put in. Available tools to check a public page before and after such a change are limited, and the Wayback Machine doesn't show anything obvious, but it more readily points to developer Wildlight Entertainment doing something.
Highguard is due to arrive on January 26, and we've no explicit reason to think otherwise. We'll find out what's going on one way or another soon enough.
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Anthony is an Irish entertainment and games journalist, now based in Glasgow. He previously served as Senior Anime Writer at Dexerto and News Editor at The Digital Fix, on top of providing work for Variety, IGN, Den of Geek, PC Gamer, and many more. Besides Studio Ghibli, horror movies, and The Muppets, he enjoys action-RPGs, heavy metal, and pro-wrestling. He interviewed Animal once, not that he won’t stop going on about it or anything.
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