From Press Release:
Derby, UK – [10 September 2026] – BULKHEAD and team17 today announced that WARDOGS, its 100-player tactical FPS, will launch into Steam Early Access at 5pm BST / 4pm UTC, while also confirming the game is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox in 2028, with wishlisting available on both console platforms from today.
The launch follows a huge response to WARDOGS’ pre-release tests, with nearly half a million unique players joining the August Closed Beta and the final pre-launch test peaking at 245,118 concurrent players on Steam. One reaction kept coming back: players hadn’t had this much fun in an FPS in years.
That feeling inspired the message behind today’s launch trailer, PLAY LIKE YOU USED TO. Paying homage to Halo 3’s iconic ‘Believe’ trailer, it celebrates an era when multiplayer games were social, unpredictable and impossible to put down.
WARDOGS aims to bring that feeling back through 100-player battles between three rival teams, combining tactical gunplay, vehicles, construction and destruction across three maps, each with three variations. Battles can shift from coordinated pushes to complete chaos in seconds, while local voice chat across all three teams brings allies and enemies into the same conversations, creating the unpredictable moments already driving thousands of clips, streams and videos from the community.
“WARDOGS is ambitious, rough around the edges and still has a long way to go, but that is exactly what Early Access should be,” said Joe Brammer, CEO at BULKHEAD. “We’re putting the game in players’ hands, listening to what they tell us and taking the risks needed to turn it into something that can last. More than anything, we want people to get online, talk to each other and have the kind of fun in an FPS that we grew up having.”
WARDOGS enters Early Access at $39.99 USD, with a stepped pricing model designed to reward players who join earlier in development rather than charging the planned full-release price before every major feature has been delivered.
To celebrate the community at launch, BULKHEAD is also running the WARDOGS $100K Clip Contest, with $100,000 in cash going to the best overall clip and the rest of the Top 100 each receiving $100,000 in WARDOGS in-game cash. More information is available at wardogs100k.com.
WARDOGS will launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox in 2028, with players able to wishlist the game on both platforms from 11am BST today. For PC players, WARDOGS launches into Steam Early Access at 5pm BST / 4pm UTC today.
LINKS
Steam: https://store.steampowered.
com/app/1867240/WARDOGS/
Launch Trailer: https://youtu.be/CpQnZgZCIo8
PlayStation 5 Wishlist: https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/concept/10020847
Xbox Wishlist: https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/store/wardogs/ 9p55z0jjgvwn
Website: WARDOGS.com###
About WARDOGS:
WARDOGS is a Tactical All Out Warfare FPS where 100 players split across three rival teams fight for control of a dynamic battlefield.
Combining tactical gunplay, combined-arms combat, construction, destruction and large-scale team play, WARDOGS gives players the freedom to decide how they fight, how they support their team and how they make their money.
Every decision matters. Teamwork pays. Cash is king.
About BULKHEAD:
BULKHEAD is a video game development studio based in Derby, UK with an ambition to make a mark on the FPS genre. Founded in 2015 by a small group of friends the studio has expanded from creating acclaimed indie titles like The Turing Test and Battalion 1944 to building a larger team focused on ambitious multiplayer experiences such as WARDOGS. The studio was recently acquired from Tencent by a newly-formed consortium comprising SMG, everplay and HIRO Capital and BULKHEAD’s latest title WARDOGS is being published by Team17.
About team17
Founded in 1990, team17 is part of everplay group plc, and a passionate and creative developer and publisher dedicated to its pioneering independent partners and games. Team17 has an extensive portfolio of over 150 titles that players around the world love for a lifetime, including DREDGE, Date Everything!, and Overcooked!, together with multi-award-winning and award-nominated in-house brands such as Hell Let Loose, Golf With Your Friends, The Escapists, and the iconic Worms franchise. Visit www.team17.com for more information.
BULKHEAD Social Links:
BULKHEAD Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
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BULKHEAD X: https://x.com/BULKHEADWARDOGS Social Links:
WARDOGS X: www.x.com/wardogs
WARDOGS Discord: https://discord.gg/TxKKdspkCp
WARDOGS TikTok: tiktok.com/@playwardogs
