Syfy's Defiance was an ambitious cross-platform experiment that failed

Long after the TV series ended, its companion game is being shut down

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Look around the current environment of science fiction and fantasy entertainment. There’s the sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe, DCEU, and Star Wars franchises, CBS All Access’s (sorry, Paramount +) growing suite of Star Trek projects, and shows that introduced us to wonderfully complicated worlds like Game of Thrones or The Expanse — which…