Heroic Labs Celebrates the Launch of Highguard, a PvP Raid Shooter from Wildlight Entertainment

Wildlight Entertainment has officially launched Highguard, marking a major milestone for the studio and capping off months of close collaboration with our team.

The creators behind Highguard have helped shape some of gaming’s most influential franchises, including Apex Legends, Call of Duty, and Titanfall. This launch signals an ambitious debut for the veteran team: a team-based hero shooter set in a mythical world where arcane gunslingers called Wardens battle for territorial control.

The game blends objective-based combat with base raiding: teams clash over the Shieldbreaker, a formidable weapon of gigantic proportions. Whoever controls the Shieldbreaker can then crack open the enemy’s walls and lay waste to their base. Throw in a unique roster of characters, weapons, and abilities, and you have a fresh take on competitive multiplayer from developers who know the genre inside and out.

Built for Launch Day and Beyond

Heroic Labs has been alongside Wildlight throughout development, powering the game’s backend with our tech stack:

• Nakama for multiplayer, including matchmaking and player account management
• Satori for LiveOps and analytics, with a Databricks integration for advanced player behavior insights
• Heroic Cloud as a dedicated private instance managing their entire infrastructure
• Amazon GameLift for game servers, connected through our Nakama-GameLift integration

Our engineering team worked hand-in-hand with Wildlight through infrastructure planning and launch preparations. The Code Wizards team also partnered with us on load testing to make sure everything was ready for players on day one.

Getting a game to launch day is a team effort, and working alongside Wildlight and Code Wizards has been a genuine pleasure. Congratulations to everyone involved. We can’t wait to see where Highguard goes from here.

Highguard is available now on Steam, Playstation, and Xbox.