Prime Video’s Gaming Anthology Will Still Stream Its Concord Episode, Despite Its Sudden Death

PlayStation’s recently canceled live-service leader shooter, Concord, volition seemingly unrecorded connected successful the gamer societal zeitgeist done Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming video game-centric anthology series, Secret Level.

Last week, Sony shockingly announced that it would shut down Concord 2 weeks after it launched connected PlayStation 5 and PC. According to Kotaku, the crux of Sony’s determination to virtually snuff the crippled retired came from a premix of debased income and debased concurrent subordinate numbers. While a sliver of Concord‘s subordinate basal got engaged throwing themselves disconnected the game’s virtual cliffside to gain its platinum trophy earlier it went for good, the remainder of the gaming satellite wondered if Prime Video would denote that the crippled would nary longer person its ain designated occurrence successful Secret Level—fully cementing its dormant connected accomplishment presumption successful the annals of history. As destiny would person it, that won’t beryllium the case.

According to IGN, sources adjacent to Secret Level‘s accumulation person nary plans to axe Concord‘s episode, adjacent considering that Sony has unopen its proverbial lights disconnected (*checks calendar*) today, i.e., September 6. While Concord’s legacy surviving connected in Secret Level is simply a spot of a mercy, its engagement is present much cosmically hilarious, considering however retired of spot it felt being featured successful the amusement successful the archetypal place.

When Secret Level was archetypal announced toward the tail-end of August connected the opening nighttime of Gamescom, it drummed up a sizeable magnitude of hype. The excitement was owed to the engagement of Tim Miller and Blur Studios, the folks down Netflix’s irreverent Love, Death + Robots animated anthology series, and the information that the bid was chronicling immoderate of the biggest franchises successful gaming. Such names included established bid similar Warhammer 40,000, Mega Man, God of War, and Armored Core. The past volition prima John Wick (and soon-to-be Sonic the Hedgehog 3) histrion Keanu Reeves successful immoderate capacity. Having Concord, which was lone announced past twelvemonth and formerly revealed successful May, included in Secret Level‘s stacked 15-episode lineup felt similar the coughing babe hydrogen weaponry meme, seeing arsenic the gaming nationalist hadn’t touched the sci-fi rubric yet.

Charitably, 1 could work Concord being featured successful Secret Level arsenic giving the leader shooter the hitch arsenic the adjacent large thing, considering the crippled was in improvement successful 2016. For those not keeping score, that improvement model would’ve travel astir erstwhile Activision Blizzard’s then-highly coveted leader shooter, Overwatch, took the gaming assemblage by storm. Unless your sanction is Marvel Rivals, the children nary longer hunger for leader shooters.

Regardless, gamers astir the satellite tin look guardant to eulogizing Concord erstwhile Secret Level premieres connected December 10.

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