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Sony shutting down Studio Liverpool

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    #32
    JohnMarston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭JohnMarston


    I got Wipeout Fusion when Sony were giving out three free games out of a list to compensate for PSN being shut down.
    Great game, but it completely kicked my ass, and it was only on normal difficulty


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    #33
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    helimachoptor wrote: »
    Wipeout was great.

    On an aside you can get gpolice for your pc, still holds up well tbh

    Wait wait, they made gpolice too? That's two of my favourite childhood scifi games they made.


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    #34
    Josey Wales
    Registered Users Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭Josey Wales


    Looks like Studio Liverpool isn't done yet.

    They posted on their Twitter account that, 'We. Are. Alive.'

    Link


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    #35
    Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 5,732 ✭✭✭Magill


    Zillah wrote: »
    Every single post I have seen from you is a load of angsty sarcasm. You don't have to constantly show everyone how cool you are.

    In fairness to him... that post required a reply loaded with sarcasm. /Facepalm worthy when you read stuff like that.


    On topic.. not really a big loss if they do get shut down. One decent racing game in a whole gaming generation isn't exactly amazing. Not unique to gaming that a studio gets shut down for failing.


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    #36
    Helix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    hooradiation wrote: »
    No I'm clearly agreeing with you, this is the worstest time in games bar none!

    You are in no way overblowing this in the slightest!

    yeah he's dead right

    if only we could go back to the glory days, where 8 out of every 10 games were godawful platformers, with half of them being shoddy licenses

    woe is us


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    #37
    Skerries
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    Eurogamer was told by an unnamed source, that at the time of its closure, Studio Liverpool was working on two PlayStation 4 launch titles. One was a Wipeout title described as "dramatically different", the other was a motion capture based game along the lines of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. Because of the closure, it is unknown if the two games will go to other studios
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    #38
    Helix
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    wipeout is still in development


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    #39
    richymcdermott
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,447 ✭✭✭richymcdermott


    http://ie.ign.com/articles/2013/01/07/ex-wipeout-dev-says-future-instalments-unlikely

    No more wipeout :(


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    #40
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    I don't think I'd want to play another Wipeout without major gameplay changes. The Playstation versions were seminal, era defining games but they've been remaking those games with minimal changes for coming up on two decades now.


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    #41
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Psygnosis... gone?

    I remember I wrote them a letter as a child, asking them if they'd make a GI Joe game (I was rather taken by the comics at the time). They wrote back to me. It was a no, unsurprisingly, but they wrote back to me. I still have that beautiful headed letter about somewhere.

    I've loved them since Shadow Of The Beast on my Amiga. This news makes me sad :'(


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    #42
    Star Lord
    Registered Users Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Shadow of the Beast, Lemmings, Menace, Rollcage...
    Loved each of those. Not so much the F1/Wipeout games they ended up making.

    Psygnosis_1994_X-it.gif


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    #43
    Sabre Man
    Registered Users Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Sabre Man


    My first Amiga games were Defender of the Crown and Barbarian by Psygnosis. It's sad it had to end like this.


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    #44
    aN.Droid
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    Ahh shadow of the beast... such a beautiful game for it's time... This is indeed a sad day...


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    #45
    Potential-Monke
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqduhShyh0Y


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    #46
    Fnz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,848 ✭✭✭Fnz


    richymcdermott wrote: »
    http://ie.ign.com/articles/2013/01/07/ex-wipeout-dev-says-future-instalments-unlikely

    No more wipeout :(

    I can't see Sony abandon the WipEout brand. It must have enough mind-share to secure future instalments.

    I think anti-grav racing still has an audience - despite Nintendo allowing the F-Zero franchise gather dust.


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    #47
    Otacon
    Registered Users Posts: 6,721 ✭✭✭Otacon


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21177604
    A group of video games developers from Sony's defunct Liverpool operation have created a studio in the city.

    Sawfly Studios told the BBC it planned to release its first game - targeted at smartphones and tablets - within the next couple of months.

    About 100 people lost their jobs when Sony closed what was one of the UK's oldest games developers last August.

    The unit was responsible for the Wipeout racing series, but dated back to 1984, when it was called Psygnosis.

    Four of its former employees are involved in the new business - two designers, a programmer and an artist - but they said they might take on other ex-Sony Liverpool Studio workers once they had launched their initial title.

    Some good news...


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