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Elon Musk Says 'Pronouns In Fantasy Games Are Utterly Unacceptable': Failure Of 'Woke' Games Proves It

Elon Musk slams 'woke' gaming and urges developers to prioritise gameplay over ideology, echoing the sentiments of many gamers.

International Business Times UK

Why It’s So Hard To Trust Video Game Recs Right Now

Andre Rebelo, better known as “Typical Gamer” to his millions of followers on YouTube and Fortnite, was one of several creators paid to promote PlayStation’s now-failed live shooter. “I was actually sponsored by Concord. I actually enjoyed the game,” Rebelo said. “It was lacking in some parts, for sure, but…

Inverse

Secret Level's producer can't fathom why Concord ended up failing: 'There was no nicer, more invested group of developers than the team on Concord'

Unfortunately, nice doesn't shift product.

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Deadpool director and Amazon's Secret Level creator on PlayStation's failed FPS Concord: "I honestly don't understand why it didn't work"

Tim Miller is adapting Concord for TV in Amazon's Secret Level

Total Film

Sony says it should've gotten more feedback before launching Concord, but it isn't done with live service games despite 'a certain amount of risk'

The PlayStation maker says singleplayer games are its strength, but it's not calling it quits on multiplayer after Concord bombed.

PC Gamer

Sony leads say the company "gained a lot of experience" from Concord's failure and will have to do more "user testing or internal evaluation" in the future

Live service games are a learning process

GamesRadar

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Nintendo launching two new apps, Russia sues Google for an eyewatering amount and more for this week's tech & gaming breakdown.

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

"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.

Windows Central

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

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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.

GamesRadar

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

GamesRadar

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

PC Gamer

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.

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

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