Concord’s director reportedly steps down

Concord crippled manager Ryan Ellis has stepped down pursuing the determination to instrumentality the crippled offline, according to Kotaku. Developers astatine Concord developer Firewalk Studios are besides uncertain of the aboriginal of the studio.

Ellis, whose resume besides includes much than 7 years astatine Bungie, informed unit of the alteration relation past week, Kotaku reports. (His LinkedIn inactive lists his rubric arsenic “Game Director.”) Ellis besides authored the PlayStation Blog station announcing Concord’s shutdown.

That station said the Firewalk squad would beryllium exploring options for what to bash adjacent with Concord, but Kotaku reports that immoderate developers person “been asked to research pitches for thing wholly different.” Some Firewalk developers are seemingly refreshing their portfolios successful anticipation of imaginable layoffs, and a fewer person near already, Kotaku says.

Sony didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.

The institution has had immoderate struggles with its unrecorded work efforts. Destiny 2 developer Bungie announced in July that it would beryllium laying disconnected 220 Bungie employees and moving others to PlayStation. Late past year, Naughty Dog canceled its planned multiplayer crippled based connected The Last of Us.