Well, it’s official, folks: Concord is gone. The hero shooter FPS launched just two weeks ago to the day, but after poor sales and lukewarm reception, PlayStation halted sales, refunded all copies, and now it’s pulled the game offline entirely.After an eye-watering eight years in development, Concord’s abrupt and shocking cancellation makes it a stronger contender for the worst launch of 2024, and arguably one of the poorest performances of any online game of the last decade or so. I can only think of a few off the top of my head whose launch states and shutdowns overshadowed the game itself to such an overwhelming degree. Anthem, maybe? But at least EA and BioWare tried salvaging that with post-release content and then a switch to seasonal updates before ultimately cancelling all future content two years after its launch. Somewhat similarly, in 2015 Turtle Rock took a lot of heat for Evolve’s infamous 44 DLC packs and the general development direction at launch, but it still stum…

Update: Martyn Ware has clarified that the GTA 6 music deal his band was offered amounted to $7,500 for each of the song’s three writers.In response to a tweet about the offer, Ware, singer of band Heaven 17, confirmed that the deal was not $7,500 total, but “$7,500 each for three writers,” amounting to a total payout of $22,500.$7500 each for 3 writersStill utterly unacceptable Also $8.6B gross, not profit – but still…September 8, 2024Regardless of that increased figure, however, it seems Ware is in no hurry to accept the deal. He confirmed in that tweet that the offer was “still utterly unacceptable,” also clarifying that his previous comments about GTA 5’s profit were not wholly accurate – the $8.6 billion figure he cited relates to gross revenue, not total profit.Original story: Heaven 17 singer Martyn Ware claims that Rockstar Games only offered $7,500 to use the band’s 1983 hit song Temptation in the upcoming GTA 6 “forever” – a proposition he refused because of GTA 5’s ou…