News with the tag "Concord"

Sony’s COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki reflects on Concord’s colossal failure. He says Playstation needs detailed user testing to prevent such situations in future live service multiplayer IP, which the company still has plans for. Totoki said in the Q&A session of Sony’s financial call, “We need to have ...

Sony is closing down the Firewalk Studios. The studio is responsible for the Concord game which is considered the biggest flop of the year. The announcement came out on Sony’s website in a message by Hermen Hulst, the CEO of Playstation to his staff. The message also stated that along with Firewalk ...

A Concord dev shared with Colin Moriarty, that the $400m was spent on the game’s development. It is by far Sony’s most expensive until now and carried Star Wars’s level of expectation from the developers. Adding to the expectation the game was considered the “Future of Playstation” by the owners. Co...

Concord, a live-service game, will defy current trends and not include a battle pass. Firewalk Studios, the game's developers, announced that the game would instead reward players for playing. Firewalk revealed more content, and features will be released in future updates and seasons.

Concord developers have defended their move to require a PSN account on PC by stating that it will enable the implementation of features such as cross-progression and cross-play.

History has shown that collaboration is a powerful driver of digital innovation, propelled by the exchange of knowledge between scientists and engineers. Indeed, instrumental to the birth of the Internet was the collaboration between Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf in the 1970s, which enabled communication b...

Euphoria evaporated faster than a trader’s profits, as the crypto fear & greed index plummeted from 70 last month to a sobering 55. The once-optimistic anticipation surrounding the first US Bitcoin ETFs has morphed into nervous uncertainty, leaving investors reeling in the wake of a nerve-wracking s...