One year ago, just two weeks after its release, the hero-shooter known as Concord was permanently shut down due to its abysmal sales and astonishingly low player count. Just a couple months later, Sony, in an attempt to cut losses, disbanded Firewalk studios, which had developed the game over the course of 8 years.
The failed co-op shooter Concord, just marked its one-year anniversary, and 50 weeks since its cancellation.
On the one-year anniversary of what is considered Sony Interactive Entertainment’s greatest failure, the memory of this epic blunder remains a chilling example for the gaming industry on what happens when developers lean too far into identity politics at the expense of the game experience.
A dramatic restructuring at Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has seen the company abandon its short-lived dual CEO structure, removing Hermen Hulst from his co-CEO position and leaving Hideaki Nishino as the sole leader of PlayStation.
Stuttering Craig’s The Real Game Awards will both celebrate positive achievements in gaming and shine a light on some of its most abysmal failures.
Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards announced nominations today on a YouTube livestream and it wasn’t what the public expected.
Most assumed that the tenth iteration of Keighley’s annual event, which is typically driven by corporate interests and the legacy games journalism elites, would celebrate failed “woke” titles like Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Concord, Dustborn, and Star Wars: Outlaws. However, those games received very little attention while fan favorites like Black Myth Wukong and Astrobot ruled the day.
Former Naughty Dog Game Director Bruce Straley, who worked on The Last of Us and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, said Sony is being "EXTREMELY short-sighted" by shutting down Firewalk Studios, the developer of Concord. Sony announced it was shutting down Firewalk Studios...
Sony Interactive Entertainment and PlayStation Studios Head Herman Hulst announced that it has shut down Concord developer Firewalk Studios about a year after it purchased it from ProbablyMonsters. In a post to the Sony Interactive Entertainment website, Hulst wrote,...
A Concord insider alleges that the game's original parent company, ProbablyMonsters, will not survive the game's catastrophic failure that saw it get shut down by Firewalk Studios and PlayStation in less than two weeks after its initial release due to a lack of...
Former Dragon Age director Mark Darrah recently explained why he believes it is very possible that Sony and Firewalk Studios could have blown $400 million developing Concord. Darrah's comments come in the wake of a rumor from Colin Moriarty claiming that a Concord...
A rumor from Colin Moriarty, the host of Sacred Symbols, claims that Firewalk Studios' Concord, which was shut down around two weeks after it released, cost $400 million to develop. Moriarty detailed in a video uploaded to X that he spoke extensively with a Concord...
A new rumor claims that Concord Game Director Ryan Ellis stepped down from his position after the game's abysmal failure that saw its servers shut down about two weeks after it launched. Ellis announced the game would shutter in a blog post on the PlayStation blog at...
Firewalk Studios and PlayStation are removing players' digital downloads of Concord from their PlayStation 5 consoles. As originally reported by TheGamer, players a receive a message when attempting to load the game on PlayStation informing the game was removed from...
The former owner of Concord developer Firewalk Studios, ProbablyMonsters, is reportedly shake "to the core" by Concord's abysmal failure, but management is allegedly ignoring any discussion on broader cultural talking points that may have caused of the game's...