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Concord Canceled By Sony

AlexGherzo | Sep 3, 2024 | 2

Sony appears to be folding and walking away from the table. Their new first-person shooter, Concord, has been a bust since its launch on July 23, reaching only 697 peak concurrent players on Steam – an even lower number than that of its beta test, suggesting many gamers didn’t come back for the ...

Are Concord Losses Driving Up the PS5 Price?

AlexGherzo | Aug 28, 2024 | 4

Concord’s failure may have ramifications for gamers who aren’t even playing the game (which is almost all of them), and it already has in Japan, or so many are assuming. The first-person shooter has been a disaster for Sony, whose in-house studio, Firewalk Studios, developed Concord; according ...

Competitors Concord and Dustborn Help Explain Black Myth: Wukong’s Success

AlexGherzo | Aug 26, 2024 | 5

We’ve watched Black Myth: Wukong, the new Soulslike game from Chinese developer Game Science, become a legitimate sensation over the past week, with 2,415,714 concurrent players at its all-time peak on Steam and a 95.58% positive audience score as of this writing. It’s also on track to be the fa...

New Kraven the Hunter Trailer Brings the Pain

AlexGherzo | Aug 14, 2024 | 2

Is Sony’s Spidey-less Spider-Verse going out with a bang? Probably not, but they definitely want you to think so. While Venom: The Last Dance seems like the best way to end this side experiment, there’s one more movie about a Spider-Man villain that will arrive after the Lethal Protector’s la...

What’s Behind the Bungie Layoffs?

AlexGherzo | Aug 1, 2024 | 0

The slew of layoffs throughout the video game industry has reached Bungie, the former developer of Halo. The studio is letting go of 220 employees, which is about 17% of its workforce, while 155 others are moving to Sony Interactive Entertainment, which owns Bungie. (Bungie used to be owned by Micro...

Concord Early Access Beta is a Bomb

AlexGherzo | Jul 18, 2024 | 3

The main attraction at this year’s PlayStation State of Play was Concord, a sci-fi first-person shooter developed by Firewalk Studios (which is owned by Sony, hence the focus at State of Play). It was pretty underwhelming, a goofy-looking game with some nice visuals but little to draw anyone in. ...