Firewalk Studios, the developer behind the failed first-person shooter Concord, has officially been shut down. Concord was released on August 23, 2024, to a deadly cocktail of mixed reviews and stiff competition. It was shut down just two weeks later, citing a failure to build a player base.
According to a blog post by Sony Interactive Entertainment, documenting an internal email sent by Studio Business Group CEO Hermen Hulst, Firewalk Studios closed its doors today for good. The correspondence goes on to describe Concord's failure, and thank the development team at Firewalk for its efforts, all while promising lots of exciting news from SIE in the near future. It also claims that some of the studios' employees will be absorbed into the wider Sony ecosystem.
After Concord's disappointing launch, PlayStation shut down the game which makes Prime Video's upcoming adaptation feel really strange.
The complete closure of Firewalk is a little sudden, but Concord's failure was much easier to see coming. Although some aspects of the game did work well, its flaws apparently outweighed its merits. Concord was widely criticized for failing to offer anything new in an already oversaturated market: that of hero-based first-person shooters. Many critics cited...
