Sony shuts down Concord dev Firewalk and mobile studio Neon Koi

Update: Firewalk "signed off one last time" with a statement confirming its closure.

In it, the studio noted several of its accomplishments, from growing out its team during the pandemic to developing Concord on Unreal Engine 4 (and later Unreal Engine 5), and "ultimately shipping and delivering a great FPS experience to players–even if it landed much more narrowly than hoped against a heavily consolidated market."

"We took some risks along the way, [like] marrying aspects of card battlers and fighting games with first-person-shooters," Firewalk continued. "Although some of these and other aspects of the IP didn’t land as we hoped, the idea of putting new things into the world is critical to pushing the medium forward. […] Thank you to all the very many teams, partners and fans who supported us along the way."<…