Tag: video games
Concord Canceled By Sony
Sony appears to be folding and walking away from the table. Their new first-person shooter, Concord, has been a bust since its launch on July 23, reaching only 697 peak concurrent players on Steam – an even lower number than that of its beta test, suggesting many gamers didn’t come back for the ...
Read MoreGovernment-Funded Video Games Include Dustborn and Something Called Cat Park
You know Dustborn, that lame (presumably; I haven’t played it) woke video game that teaches gamers how to be activists and weaponize cancel culture and bullying? It was government-funded, with the European Union and the Norwegian Film Institute (which, according to its website, falls “under the ...
Read MoreAre Concord Losses Driving Up the PS5 Price?
Concord’s failure may have ramifications for gamers who aren’t even playing the game (which is almost all of them), and it already has in Japan, or so many are assuming. The first-person shooter has been a disaster for Sony, whose in-house studio, Firewalk Studios, developed Concord; according ...
Read MoreSonic the Hedgehog 3 Trailer Casts a Dark Shadow
The super-fast rodents are piling up. Today, Sega and Paramount Pictures released a trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the latest installment in the surprisingly successful video game adaptation series. (I say “surprisingly” because when the first Sonic the Hedgehog film came out, movies based o...
Read MoreStar Wars Outlaws Still Looks Buggy the Week of Its Release
Ubisoft’s big release of Star Wars Outlaws is this Friday, and despite the company initiating the“biggest marketing campaign ever” – which mostly amounted to flying YouTube influencers to California and sending them to Disneyland – there are signs that the game is not ready for prime time....
Read MoreCompetitors Concord and Dustborn Help Explain Black Myth: Wukong’s Success
We’ve watched Black Myth: Wukong, the new Soulslike game from Chinese developer Game Science, become a legitimate sensation over the past week, with 2,415,714 concurrent players at its all-time peak on Steam and a 95.58% positive audience score as of this writing. It’s also on track to be the fa...
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