Junkie Monkeys: As most of you know Sony shut the doors on SCE Studio Liverpool over a year ago. This move crushed many PlayStation gamers’ hearts, because this studio has had a long and rich history with PlayStation. A recent trademark filed by Sony has me curious about a few things concerning Studio Liverpool’s revival, except this time it seems they may be going back to the studio’s roots.
Eurogamer:
"Every Sunday, we bring you an article from our archive - and this week, to celebrate the original PlayStation's 20th birthday, we present the story of the studio behind one of the console's most iconic games.
In Hackers, the 1995 cult teen cyber thriller, a young Angelina Jolie and an American-accented Jonny Lee Miller play WipEout in a club. Established hacker Angelina is pretty good at the game, and has the top score. But then upstart hacker genius Jonny smashes it to bits. They hate each other. They love each other."
One of the crown jewels of Sony's first party lineup before Shuhei foolishly shut the studio down.
Just think how great it would have been to have a Wipeout game from PlayStation's premier racing developer for the launch of the PS4. Instead the whole studio was shut down and priority was given to Evolution Studios, which brought us that mess called DriveClub over a year late.
RIP Studio Liverpool. Hands-down some of the best talent that Sony had, putting out a stunningly gorgeous high-speed racer at 1080p/60fps only a couple of years into the PS3 lifecycle.
Push Square: "Back in August 2012, Sony closed the doors of Studio Liverpool. Formerly known as Psygnosis, the studio was arguably most famous for its Wipeout series of futuristic racing titles, but it's easy to forget that it enjoyed a rich and vibrant history long before it was acquired by Sony to spearhead its first PlayStation console."
Nice read. Some of my favorite PS games were by Psygnosis. I never understood why Sony changed their name and ultimately shut down the studio.
Agree, should kept original studio name, fond memories from amiga days. Blood money should make a hd psn remake
Pixels for Breakfast writes: In 1993 things were changing. A company, previously unknown for developing consoles, had made decisions to push ahead with something called PlayStation and, quite seriously, they re-wrote history.
Sony’s development of the PlayStation involved them acquiring experienced players in the development and publishing industry. Ensuring that quality products would be available at and close to launch and, for me, one of the most influential of these was Psygnosis.
That would be awesome.
Let them bring Wipeout next-gen!!!
Would be pretty cool
Didn't they join the Evo team?
would be the best thing for PlayStation fans.
WipEout HD is 1080p 60FPS with no lag, i can't even imagine the performance of WipEout PS4!
Please Sony make it happen
f they do they need to bring back epic covers:
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