From Strategyinformer.com: "It's been a bad week for games. First, there came the announcement that PopCap is making 50 staff in its Seattle office redundant and is likely to be also closing its Dublin office, with a loss of a further 100 jobs. Then Norwegian developer Funcom announced its own layoffs, hopefully labelling them as “temporary” and blaming “mixed or average” reviews of its recently released ambitious MMO title The Secret World. Yesterday bought further bad news with the closure of the legendary SCE Studio Liverpool, a developer that had bought us unforgettable games like the WipEout series, Lemmings and Colony Wars".
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.
