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.
Do agree it seemed a ridiculous decision to shut studio Liverpool they never released a bad game however I disagree with you about evolution studio. Evolution have also a good pedigree, driveclub is solid and will be built upon it is trying to do something different, the net code was the problem. If we are not careful there will be no studio Liverpool or evolution.
Im pretty sure i read somewhere that some of the liverpool staff was taken on by evo... we may yet see another wipeout.
We really need another Wipeout, it's one of the best IP's Sony has :(
What about Psygnosis? I want another Colony Wars! Its the perfect timing too because space shooters and sci fi is so back in again and the graphics would be incredible!
EDIT: Oh wait, is Psygnosis and Studio Liverpool the same thing?? Just saw Psygnosis in the intro of the video. They made amazing games! I loved G-Police adn they had an F-1 racer at some point too
They were foolish to shut them down, as now most of them have formed their own studio and are making a game very similar to Wipeout that will be multiplatform. Sony lost a jewel of an exclusive with that stunt.
Actually just bought Wipeout 2048 for Vita at Gamestop for like $7 the other day.
I like it a lot so far.
Just bought the HD+Fury 24 track Bundle DLC as well so I still need to experience all those tracks.
Only other Wipeout game I played was Pure for PSP which was amazing, so I'm hoping some of the HD+Fury tracks are close to those.
* They are making a new Wipeout type of game though so there is a spiritual successor on the way I think for 2015 on PC or maybe other platforms. Looks cool, but I forgot the name of the game.
Anyways, solid series, hope to see it continue via this other franchise.
@hiredhelp and @Whyowhy
Here's a link I've just found about some of their old games. Some I didn't even realise were theirs. Maybe they were just the publisher for some of them.
http://www.lemonamiga.com/g...
Wish I had more bubbles to reminisce about the old gaming days :-)
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:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w...
http://www.psygnosis.org/ga...