The latest PlayStation-published live-service shooter Concord is here, and launch numbers are looking pretty bad so far.When it comes to concurrent player counts, numbers don’t always matter, particularly for single-player games, but live-service titles are a different story. Valve’s new hero shooter Deadlock, which it finally officially revealed last week, had a concurrent player count peak of 89,000 just yesterday, according to SteamDB, a very impressive figure for a game that isn’t even out yet. However, while it’s been playable for a little while now, as long as you’ve got an invite, this weekend did have an actual launch for another live-service hero shooter, Concord. Except, its Steam numbers are not doing so good, amassing only 697 players at one time on the game’s launch day. To se…
Read moreIf you’re worried about whether the Silent Hill 2 remake might affect how you feel about the PS2 classic, the original director has this to say: don’t be.The thing about remakes, particularly when it comes to games as beloved as Silent Hill 2, is that the conversation can be muddied around the original version. Some people might say that a remake replaces the original, others might say the same thing but negatively, but if you were to ask the director of the PS2 original version of Silent Hill 2, he’d tell you that the quality of the remake won’t do anything to the original. On his personal Twitter, developer Masashi Tsuboyama wrote that he thinks “the value of the remake is that a new generation can play it. As a creator, I’m very happy about it. It’s been 23 years! Even if you don’t know…
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