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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Concord | History Defined

PUBG boss was "sad" to see Concord and Highguard get shut down, but hopes to learn from their mistakes

Taeseok Jang finds the silver lining in these situations

GamesRadar

Jeff Kaplan has choice words for players who just live to hate: "Shut the f— up"

Straight and to the point, the former Vice President of Blizzard calls bullshit on people who's existance depends on earning more internet upvotes.

Windows Central

Customers urged to destroy helmets sold at Walmart as 40,000 recalled

Recall could cost helmet distributor Todson more than $1.2m

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Games like Highguard are just "gambling by investors" who "know ahead of time a flop is likely," says indie legend: "Sucks for the developers who get caught in the churn"

The FPS is now being shut down permanently

GamesRadar

Highguard failed because it didn't use what made ARC Raiders great — and if it did, it might have had a better chance

Had the development team behind Highguard followed a few key steps that made ARC Raiders great, they might have had a chance.

Windows Central

Fans react to Sony's closure of Bluepoint Games

Is the studio paying the price for PlayStation's mismanagement?

Creative Bloq

Former Marathon art director says 'what I could control, I feel really good about' in the face of pre-release animosity: 'You can't take that away from me'

"All great art—commercial art anyways—it’s doubted and there’s a level of skepticism. Until there’s not."

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Comparisons to Concord didn't feel great, says ex Marathon art director, but "as much as the haters try online ... you can't take the thing I care about the most"

Marathon's certainly got style

GamesRadar

Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight

Highguard's trailer landed with a thud at 2025's biggest award show, but it didn't pay for the privilege.

PC Gamer

After Payday 3's fumbles, Fairgames just might turn out to be the heist game that I crave

Opinion | Done right, stealing digital dollars will bring in plenty of real ones

GamesRadar

Concord fans bring Sony's infamous hero shooter flop back a year after it went offline, only for the PlayStation maker to smite the project down within days

Sony is already cracking down with "worrying legal action"

GamesRadar

You thought Concord was dead? Well, it is, but Sony just double-tapped it

Once wasn't enough.

Destructoid

Shortly after Concord's resurrection by fans, it looks like Sony might be about to kill it again: 'Due to worrying legal action we’ve decided to pause invites for the time being'

But as for the Concord fans, they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.

PC Gamer

Concord, one of the most infamous videogame flops of all time, may already be flopping again as Sony brings the hammer down on revival mod

At this stage, it's buggy—but it works.

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'Gamers deserve clarity': UK Parliament debates videogame ownership while also beating the dead horse named Concord

Concord is quickly becoming shorthand for 'messed-up videogame launch'.

PC Gamer

After cancelling 8 of the 12 live service games Sony promised to release by 2025, PlayStation studios boss says the number doesn't really matter: 'What is important to me is having a diverse set of player experiences'

"I don't want teams to always play it safe, but I would like for us, when we fail, to fail early and cheaply."

GamesRadar

Architect of Sony's disastrous 'live-service push' says failures are good actually, because now there's "more rigorous and more frequent testing"

"I don't want teams to always play it safe, but I would like for us, when we fail, to fail early and cheaply"

The Guardian - UK

‘I tried to be nice. Sometimes I would explode’: John Fogerty on Creedence, contracts and control

As the driving force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, he wrote some of the 60s’ most enduring songs. But a poor record deal followed by years in the wilderness drove him to the brink of breakdown. Now 80, he looks back

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The Independent UK

Brooklyn’s Black church choirs persist amid attendance decline, gentrification

The Sunday streets of the borough of churches still vibrate with gospel chords, yet inside many of Brooklyn’s storied Black sanctuaries, the choir lofts have thinned dramatically

TechRadar

After Concord's flop, Sony admits its live-service plan 'is not entirely going smoothly' but says it will continue and learn from its mistakes

Sony has admitted that its current live-service strategy "is not entirely going smoothly" following the disastrous launch of Concord.

GamesRadar

Amid Marathon's ongoing struggles and Concord's closure after just 2 weeks, Sony admits the whole PlayStation live service strategy thing isn't "entirely going smoothly"

It's all about the "longer-term perspective," though

PC Gamer

Sony CFO admits live service shift is 'not entirely going smoothly' in the wake of Marathon and Concord, takes a big hit of cope, says it's not all bad because Helldivers 2 and Destiny 2 exist

There's gotta be some more water to wring outta this stone somewhere.

AAP

Family ties push new Tiger to earn NRLW stripes

NRLW fullback Aaliyah Bula is out to make an impression of her own at the Wests Tigers after joining husband Jahream Bula at Concord Oval.

PC Gamer

PlayStation Studios boss admits Marathon response has been 'varied' but says Sony is taking steps to ensure it's 'not going to make the same mistakes' it did with Concord

Herman Hulst says Sony is giving Bungie's extraction shooter "the optimal chance of success."

GamesRadar

PlayStation is still "continuing to invest in new live services," and has "reviewed our processes" following Concord's failure

"We have MLB The Show, Destiny 2, Helldivers 2, and these are all really good examples of the type of titles that we're looking to develop"

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