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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"

GamesRadar

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"

GamesRadar

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.

PC Gamer

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

GamesRadar

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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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

The Guardian - UK

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

GamesRadar

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

"Something went wrong."

PC Gamer

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

GamesRadar

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.

PC Gamer

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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Scalpers swarm eBay as Concord kicks the bucket, charging punters up to $25,000 for physical copies of the PS5 edition—and some are spending hundreds

If it's not clear: Don't do this.

GamesRadar

Concord's imminent death prompts "infinite love" from its own developers and sympathy from industry figures: "I feel your pain"

Gears of War, Marvel's Blade, and Destiny makers also show support to the failed hero shooter

PC Gamer

Concord's catastrophic failure has made me even more worried about Bungie's Marathon

It's becoming increasingly hard to see a path to success for the sci-fi extraction shooter reboot.

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What went wrong with Concord?

Gamers react to Sony's $100m PS5 flop.

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After Redfall and Suicide Squad, Concord's failure must be the nail in the coffin for the industry's failed live-service gold rush

Too many games are living short, embarrassing lives

PC Gamer

Concord players are offing themselves for XP in a last-ditch attempt to level up before servers close in just 2 days

The race for platinum.

GamesRadar

Borderlands 4 dev urges Concord studio to back up work after losing theirs to Gearbox's hero shooter flop: "I regretted not getting it while I could"

Lessons learned from Battleborn

GamesRadar

Concord's massive flop hasn't phased Sony, which reportedly feels "very positive" about its next live service from an Assassin's Creed veteran

There's supposedly good internal sentiment around Fairgames, Jade Raymond's new multiplayer endeavor

Evening Standard

How to get a Concord refund after Sony shuts down failed PS5 game

The hero shooter is set to go down as one of the biggest flops in gaming history

GamesRadar

Concord is now filled with players throwing themselves off the maps as quickly as possible in a desperate attempt to unlock the shooter's Platinum trophy before it goes offline

The race is on

Player One

Concord is Shutting Down Just Two Weeks After Game was Fully Launched by Sony

In a shock announcement, Sony has announced that Concord will be shut down just two weeks after it was fully launched by the company.

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