CVG- Britain has a peerless heritage for pioneering racing games. Its specialist studios spread across the country. It has Codemasters and Evolution in the midlands and North West, Criterion in Guildford and Eutechnyx North East. Sumo Digital stands way up north and Stainless Games sits deep down south.
But even with such deep reserves of talent, the loss of Sony Liverpool will be impossible to ignore. The studio, now three decades old, has developed and published more than 100 games.
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.
I miss Psygnosis / Studio Liverpool! I would certainly love a next-gen sequel to G.Police and Colony Wars.
I'm still enjoying regularly Wipeout HD and Wipeout 2048, Wipeout is one of my favourite Sony franchise ...please let this be true.
G_Police remake needs to happen, although with an understandable, not entirely insane control scheme this time.
this could be like when take 2 boston changed its name back to irrational games,i hope its true.
Most likely they're just keeping the trademark theirs for any PS1 titles they plan on porting to current platforms.
/sadface
It was a chronically underfunded studio, come to think of it all the British studios are underfunded in comparison to the American and Japanese studios yet they still came out with some of the most iconic series to exist in the Playstation brand.
Not only should Sony bring back Liverpool, they should throw the money at it and see what crazy stuff they come up with.
Didn't they just merge the staff and buildings with Evolution? They were pretty close geographically and both focused on racers. It made sense to combine their talents and tech.
@domination
no
a small few found jobs at Evolution Studios, the rest had to find their own way.
@DrStrange,
The old trademark remains, but now it looks like they have just created a new one.
http://i40.tinypic.com/k9ev...
I was thinking a few weeks ago how cool it would be to see a new Destruction Derby for the PS4. Simple and with no bs, just like the old games, but this time also multiplayer
What's that Honey. Were having Liverpool for dinner. Mmmhh my Favorite.
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
4k gaming is obviously supported..
look at the disagrees. they weren't idiotic sony fanboys taking offense to the possible slight against their plastic and silicon god. they were infact devs disagreeing with you.... oh wait
No point complaining about the disagrees, but no, the PS4 does not support 4K gaming. Not unless it's on some Pong-level games.
Sony confirmed this before, right? NO 4k rendered games...which is obvious when you look at the retail gpu the PS4's is based off of...Its very clearly a 1080 gpu...
4k takes multiple gpu's for even relatively simple modern games...Sorry, a single Radeon 7800 series isn't going to be pulling that off any time soon...sucks, i know, as Wipeout HD, to this day, is still one of the most impressive console games i've ever witnessed...
but it'll do 4k video...and may even support the quad layer BD disc stuff in the future...if its true that is all software related, that is...a lot of conflicting info on that...
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...
NowGamer chats to ex-Studio Liverpool dev and current Sawfly Studios Managing Director Michael Humphrey about starting his new venture.
Edge- David Valjalo talks to Sawfly Studios’ design director about whether Wipeout will survive, the new Liverpool dev scene and why smaller is better.
As much as I enjoyed Wipeout it obviously was not a great earner this gen. I remember when Fury came out on PS3 it barely made the top 10 for that week for PSN sales.
You have got to be kidding me!? Wipeout is one of my favourite racing game franchises... Ever.
Huge mistake. The importance of first party titles isn't just to bring in Game Sales, it's to bring in Console Sales. If there's room for financial improvement, get a discussion between the various 1st party companies going and see where their games can improve.
Why do people talk as if it was so simple. Whether you liked Wipeout or not is not the point. The point was that it was business decision. No here or anywhere knows what went down when they did this. But everyone here always wants to spend Sony's money for them and tell them what they would have done. Sony is business that has been around long before many modern gamers were born. I am sure Sony didn't just wake up one morning and say.'Hey you know what this franchise and developer are doing very well but hey lets do something stupid and get rid of them. No one asks to hear Sony's side or if Liverpool were not doing their jobs or anything.
You have people that are not pulling their weight and you have to cut them. No one knows how many chances they gave them or if this was the last straw or If Sony weighed out the pro and cons and the cons come up higher. Liverpool could have become complete dead weight.But no one is concerned about that or the fact that Wipeout probably will keep being made or their project being given to anyone else. All you want to, as usual, direct everything towards Sony.I give thanks every day that people here on N4G don't run companies. You would spend all your money without budgets, keep everyone on no matter if they are pulling their weight or not and give everything away for free and be bankrupt in a couple of weeks.It is always sad to see a developer go but no one knows if they were pulling their weight at all. They could have been complete washouts and given a hundred chances to shape up.