Sony has announced that they are closing Concord developer Firewalk Studios, just a year and a half after acquiring the studio in April 2023.
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Insomniac Games has confirmed that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will not receive any additional story DLC, which has angered many fans. Is it such a bad thing that there won’t be any DLC for the game though? Let’s talk about why I think it’s a totally fine decision.
We’ve known for some time now that a sequel to Horizon Forbidden West is in development alongside a Horizon multiplayer game, but now we know that Horizon 3 is seemingly not releasing first. When might each game come out and what does this mean for the franchise? Let’s talk about it.
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Ghost of Yōtei Announced, Coming in 2025
During today’s State of Play, Sucker Punch announced Ghost of Yōtei, the sequel to their highly acclaimed 2020 title, Ghost of Tsushima. We won’t have to wait long to play it either, as it’s coming in 2025 for PlayStation 5.
Months of speculation and rumors have finally come to an end as Sony officially announced the PlayStation 5 Pro and its November 7, 2024 release date. Aside from questions surrounding what the technical improvements the PS5 Pro would be, the biggest question mark concerned its price, and now we know that it’ll cost $700 in the U.S. Just like the PS4 Pro before it, the PS5 Pro is a refreshed version of the original PS5 that came out in 2020 and features some technical improvements. But the $700 price tag has raised eyebrows and is the biggest point of contention many have with the console, myself included.
Sony has officially announced the PlayStation 5 Pro, a mid-gen refresh of the PS5. Priced at a staggering $699.99 USD/£699.99/€799.99/¥119,980, the PS5 Pro will be released November 7, 2024.
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Concord Is Being Shut Down Already
Firewalk Studios has announced that Concord is being taken offline later this week on September 6.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has received a December 9, 2024 release date for Xbox Series X|S and PC, and more surprisingly has also been confirmed to be releasing on PlayStation 5 next year.
Microsoft’s first-party exclusive Hi-Fi Rush came to PlayStation earlier this year, along with three other first-party Xbox titles. Sony’s Horizon franchise is breaking out of PlayStation exclusivity and jumping to the Nintendo Switch later this year with Lego Horizon Adventures. These moves may not spell the immediate end of console exclusives for PlayStation and Xbox, but the fires have been lit and the future is clear: first-party exclusivity for them will eventually be no more.
Concord, the new first-person shooter coming from Firewalk Studios, finally got a proper reveal at last week’s PlayStation State of Play and people haven’t been too hot on it. Let’s talk about why I think it looks promising, the uphill battle ahead of it, and what I think will help differentiate it from Overwatch.
