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The Latest Breaking News from Concord

Is Concord the biggest live service failure of all time? Here's how it stacks up next to other major flops

The live service graveyard got another headstone this week, and it's starting to feel awfully big.

PC Gamer

Sony Is Blaming Everyone But Itself For PlayStation's Most Embarrassing Failure

Sony is shuttering 'Concord' developer Firewalk Studios, while deflecting any blame for the shooter's failure.

Inverse

Pushing Buttons: the biggest flop in video game history caps off a brutal year for game development

Sony is shutting down Firewalk, the studio behind its live-service flop, Concord. It’s the biggest, most expensive casualty of an increasingly crowded hero shooter market – but it won’t be the last

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Sony Shuts Down 'Concord' Dev Firewalk Studios 2 Years After Acquiring It

Sony shut down Concord developer Firewalk Studios just two years after acquiring it following the shooter's commercial flop.

Player One

Concord development deal reportedly rivaled The Last of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West at $200 million, which Sony has now chucked into a big ol' furnace

Concord was a huge loss in every sense

GamesRadar

As Sony shuts it down, Concord studio reflects on "a heavily consolidated market" and says "putting new things into the world is critical to pushing the medium forward"

"We took some risks along the way"

GamesRadar

"I know none of this is easy news to hear, particularly with colleagues and friends departing SIE." Sony closes two PlayStation studios and shutters Concord for good

PlayStation maker Sony has revealed that it's closing its Neon Koi and Firewalk Studios teams, with the latter's unsuccessful hero shooter Concord being sunset permanently.

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Concord is officially, fully, "permanently" dead as Sony announces it's closing the failed hero shooter's studio and moving on: "We will take the lessons learned"

Concord is officially, fully, "permanently" dead

GamesRadar

Concord isn't coming back, and the developer is done for too: Sony says it considered its options and apparently 'the best path forward is to permanently sunset the game and close the studio'

I was wrong: Concord isn't coming back, and neither is Firewalk Studios.

PC Gamer

Sony's failed shooter Concord has been updated dozens of times on Steam in October, and I'm starting to feel a comeback

There's a whole lot of activity going on for a game that's supposedly dead.

PC Gamer

There's new hope for Concord - PlayStation's FPS is still getting updated on Steam 6 weeks after going offline

Firewalk Studios are still seemingly working on the troubled hero shooter

GamesRadar

Dragon Age veteran crunches the numbers on Concord's reported $400 million cost: "A project that is in trouble can get really big in an effort to get it over the finish line"

"Did it cost 400 million dollars? I'm not sure, I think we can make it plausible that it did"

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Horizon: Zero Dawn developer's next game may be Horizon Online as a third single-player game looks "a ways off"

Aloy's taking a lil' break

GamesRadar

Claims that Concord cost $400 million are inaccurate, according to fan analysis that claims Sony's ill-fated hero-shooter was "a $150 million game failure"

All you have to do is look to the studio's former owner

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Following Concord's shutdown, the hero shooter's director is reportedly stepping down and taking on a "support role" as some Firewalk devs fear mass layoffs

A new report says staff at Firewalk are in "limbo"

PC Gamer

Concord game director reportedly steps down as Firewalk developers fear layoffs or a possible closure

Sony apparently still hasn't made up its mind what to do with Concord.

GamesRadar

Concord died with a perfect 69 players holding its Platinum Trophy, but a surprise 70th just came out of nowhere to make it less nice

Still nice, just not as

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A Concord Platinum Trophy hunter came back from the grave to destroy the meme of 69 (nice) players achieving plat

Going down but not out.

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The Guardian - UK

Sony’s big-budget hero shooter Concord failed spectacularly – here’s where it went wrong

The live-service shooter is just the latest high-profile multiplayer flop – and points to an existential problem in game development

GamesRadar

Just 69 players earned Concord's Platinum before the doomed shooter could be taken offline, according to a leading tracking site

Nice.

GamesRadar

"Thank you team, we made something awesome" - Concord developers mourn the failed FPS that PlayStation pulled the plug on after just 14 days

Some of them played until the very end - or at least until they had to go to bed

PC Gamer

Streamers captured Concord's final moments as the servers went offline: 'What a huge f***ing honor'

"Something went wrong."

GamesRadar

It's official: "Concord servers are now offline," just 2 weeks after one of the worst launches in recent memory

Pour one out for those who missed Concord's now ultra-rare Platinum trophy

PC Gamer

Concord will reportedly still get its Secret Level episode, which feels grimly fitting given how this past year has gone

The victory lap will not go unimpeded.

Total Film

Report: Concord is still going to be part of Amazon's new anthology TV show Secret Level despite its abrupt cancellation

That's gonna be an awkward watch

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