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What were you up to on Friday night? Well, Concord players were busy watching it go offline for the time being following an error message which signaled the race to grab its platinum trophy was up.Since we learned that the game would be disappearing into the ether, there’s been a lot of chatter about whether Concord will actually return in the future, with one industry analyst having called the game’s current state of play an “unprecedented situation”.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Back when the news of Concord’s impending shutdown arrived, Circana executive director Mat Piscatella said he thinks what’s happening to the Sony shooter is pretty unique. “What’s happening with Concord is unprecedented,” he wrote on Bluesky (thanks, IGN). “I’m seeing …

Apologies to those of you hoping to escape to a cosy Hobbit life, but Tales of the Shire has been delayed into 2025.While there’s a seemingly infinite number of cosy games to play at any given moment, Lord of the Rings fans were unsurprisingly particularly excited by Tales of the Shire. You get to be a Hobbit and do things like fish, farm, cook, and explore the world of Lord of the Rings in a low-stakes manner, what’s not to love? It was originally due out sometime this year, but as the year gets closer and closer towards its end, Wētā Workshop Game Studio has some bad news: the game has been delayed into 2025. It’s obviously not the news you’d want to hear, especially when one of the most recent video game entries in the world of Middle-earth was The Lord of the Rings:…

Look, the vast majority of you 16-24 year olds (and older folks, let’s be honest) can’t afford a mortgage. But, thanks to a new Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 promotion, one lucky player out there will be able to net £100,000 towards their first house as part of the safehouse challenge.This safehouse challenge, which starts today, revolves around several influencers competing in their own dedicated safehouse. Players can vote only on who they reckon will win, and one of the people who voted for the correct winner will recieve that top prize. Like a gameshow, but with a massive house deposit on the line.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings That £100,000 isn’t all you get either. Activision Blizzard will cover an additional sum to sort out your ne…