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Sean Hollister
Bye-bye Concord, hello Deadlock and Spectre Divide.

Now that even Sony has admitted its new hero shooter was an failure, you might be wondering: are there just too many of those games?

Well, Valve’s Deadlock just peaked at 170K concurrent players this weekend and is sitting at nearly 120K right now.

Spectre Divide launched an hour ago and already has 30,000 concurrents. It feels fresh, despite its familiar underpinnings:

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