PlayStation multiplayer shooter Concord has suffered a terrible launch on Steam, where just 660 people played concurrently over the weekend at the game’s peak.

The last 24 hours have seen this number falling further still – now, with a daily peak of just 267 players.

Concord is also available on PlayStation 5, of course, though it doesn’t seem to have made a huge impact there, either. Looking through Sony’s PlayStation Store by “Best Selling” games finds Concord around 30-something places down. (Black Myth: Wukong, predictably, is currently top.)

After eight years in development, Concord has arrived to muted fanfare, in a landscape already saturated by live-service games, and in the same week as breakout hit Black Myth: Wukong.

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Genshin Impact 5.0 has brought Natlan, widening the world of Teyvat to include its sixth region, as part of the ‘Flowers Resplendent on the Sun-Scorched Sojourn’ update.
Natlan is available to everyone who’s completed the Mondstadt Archon Quests; meaning, even if you’re a Genshin Impact newbie, you can still travel beyond the Sumeru desert to the Nation of Pyro. Though, if you want to explore its storyline, you’ll have to be Adventure Rank 28 or higher and have completed all of Liyue’s Archon Quests.

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When journeying across Natlan, you’ll encounter the tribes who make their home there and live alongside the Saurians – creatures who are also known as the dragons of Natlan. While there are six tribes in total, only three are available upo…

Black Myth: Wukong has sold 10,000,000 copies across all platforms since it released on PC and PS5 just three days ago (20th August).
As we reported yesterday, Black Myth: Wukong continues to attract record-breaking numbers of players, establishing itself as the most-viewed game on Chinese livestreaming platforms on its first day of release.
This additional 10m milestone now cements Black Myth: Wukong as one of the most successful video game launches of all time.

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Sonic Rumble, Sega’s forthcoming mobile and PC game, won’t have gacha mechanics because they’re not popular in the west.
The 32-player battle royale will be free-to-play but won’t be pay-to-win, with a season pass as its main monetisation.
“We’re aiming for a casual system that allows you to just buy what you want quickly for a small, fixed amount, rather than a gacha system that gives you a certain probability of obtaining items,” game director Makoto Tase told Automaton.

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Tequila Works, the developer behind acclaimed puzzle game Rime and publisher of The Sexy Brutale, has laid off a number of staff as part of a studio restructure.
In addition, it has cancelled an unannounced game.
The studio made the announcement earlier today on LinkedIn. “With deep regret, we must inform of the decision to cancel an unannounced game,” it wrote. “This tough decision means we will be restructuring the studio to concentrate on the development of only one game. These changes will have an impact to a small number of roles at the studio.

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Hotel Barcelona, the side-scrolling slasher movie parody from wonderfully oddball designers Goichi “Suda51” Suda and Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro, has been delayed from 2024 into next year so developer White Owls can “keep polishing it and making it better”.

Suda51 (No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned) and Swery (Deadly Premonition, The Good Life) shared a first look at Hotel Barcelona last year, unveiling a game in which renowned serial killers from all over the US descend on the titular Pittsburgh hotel for reasons not entirely clear.

Motives probably aren’t a priority, however, when dealing with a game whose novice federal marshal protagonist Justine also happens to have an insane serial killer named Dr. Carnival living inside of her. “Will she be able to ex…

Sonic Team will work to keep its games on last-gen systems for as long as possible.
That’s according to producer Takashi Iizuka, who said in an interview with IGN that he wants “as many people as possible to play” Sonic games, even though later, more advanced systems enable “newer Sonic games [to] express the speed of Sonic”.

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Five Nights at Freddy’s star Josh Hutcherson says the second Freddy-themed movie is “much bigger” and “scarier” than its predecessor.
Talking to Esquire, as spotted by TheGamer, Hutcherson talked about the “higher stakes” and teased that there will be “more” and “different” animatronics, with the Freddy universe “opening up in a big way”.

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Mobile and Mac users will soon be able to reel in Dredge, the rather sinister BAFTA-nominated fishing RPG from Black Salt Games.
The news comes from Black Salt Games programmer and writer Joel Mason, who noted this was a “huge day for the steam forums bros who said Dredge looks like a mobile game”.

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