CategoriesNews GamingImage: Sony, The Pokémon Company, Sony, Ubisoft, Arrowhead Game Studios / Kotaku, Bungie, Screenshot: Dr Disrespect / YouTube / Kotaku, Nintendo, Nintendo / Kotaku, Photo: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images (Getty Images) This week, people desperate for Nintendo to finally pull back the curtain on the successor to the Switch instead got an announcement that the acclaimed […]
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CategoriesNews GamingMultiplayer hero shooter Concord is possibly the biggest entertainment failure, ever. Not just in gaming, but all of entertainment, across all of time. A $400 million project that reportedly sold fewer than 25,000 copies, and never saw more than 700 people playing at once on Steam, pulled from sale and deleted from PS5s two weeks […]
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CategoriesNews GamingFor the last week, there’s been a lot of online discussion on Sony’s newly-launched multiplayer shooter, Concord. But it’s not because everyone’s playing it – it’s because seemingly no one is. Plenty of games don’t sell well at launch, but observers have latched onto Concord’s dramatic failure due to its high-profile nature as a Sony […]
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CategoriesNews GamingConcord, PlayStation’s online hero shooter from first-party studio Firewalk, launched this week to a Steam concurrent player count high of 697, according to SteamDB. To describe the launch as dismal is an understatement. But while this three-figure player count has captured headlines and provoked ridicule across the internet, the detail that caught my eye was […]
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CategoriesNews GamingSony’s latest big video game, Concord, launched last week on PS5 and PC. And while the online shooter is fun and looks very expensive, it seems very few people are playing it based on some truly abysmal numbers and stats. The Best Reveals From The Game Awards 2023 Concord was officially announced last year with […]
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CategoriesNews GamingSony’s live service shooter Concord, available on PlayStation 5 and PC, has debuted to a tragic 697 peak concurrent players on Steam. Data from player tracking website SteamDB reveals Concord, which debuted on August 20, 2024 through the $59.99 Digital Deluxe Edition or August 23 through the $39.99 Standard Edition, had a peak player count […]
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CategoriesNews GamingConcord is a hero-based multiplayer shooter where you run around sci-fi maps on distant planets using pistols, cannons, fireballs and knives to obliterate opponents in familiar modes like “capture the point” and “kill stuff.” There’s nothing in it that’s surprised me or blown my mind, but it’s pretty and, more importantly, fun. That’s the worst […]
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CategoriesNews GamingRelease Update – August 23, 2024: After spending 15 hours with Concord during its misleadingly named “Early Access” period, nearly all of my impressions from the beta (which you can read in full further down) remain relevant. That’s both good and bad, because while I still enjoy how Concord generally nails its team-based competitive combat, […]
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