Sony shuts Wipeout video game studio in Liverpool

http://www.bbc.co.uk...nology-19350856

It would seem unfair to be pissing on their grave but in my opinion they turned the Wipeout franchise into somewhat of a watered down version of it's former self. I mean this

seemed 100 times less exciting than this

(It may be the whole tDR involvement that biased my opinion on the older releases.)

Though to be fair they steered things in the right direction with the PS3 version.

EDIT: I'm an idiot, I didn't realise Studio Liverpool were the new name for the Psygnosis team.

Total shame, Psygnosis had the bomb cinematic intros for PS1, and The Designers Republic to boot! They were unstoppable circa '96

  On 8/22/2012 at 11:40 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Total shame, Psygnosis had the bomb cinematic intros for PS1, and The Designers Republic to boot! They were unstoppable circa '96

This + a heavy dose of general nostalgic moaning.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Psygnosis really was the shit. This is sad. :(

I wonder why they shuttered the studio? Wipeout 2048 on the Vita did well (dunno about actual sales, and considering it's the Vita...) Hopefully the talents there were relocated to other studios within Sony.

They made this sweet game for the PSX called Destruction Derby, pretty decent soundtrack and a fun little game. Plus Wipeout had a pretty awesome soundtrack at the time, with The Designers Republic to boot

RIP

Wipeout was the first game I ever played and loved on the Playstation.

Cue Barbra Streisand

Sources: Sony Liverpool was working on WipEout PS4

PS4 - dead to me

Before tDR they had Roger Dean.

i have been an avid player of wipeout games for many years and i still get a lot of play time (multiplayer anyway) from wipeout HD on PS3. would have totally continued to support the franchise and bought future versions - as i'm sure so would a lot of other people. cannot understand why they have shut down studio liverpool :(

RIP

Yeah, Drstruction Derby 2 was an absolute classic.

I haven't played a wipeout game since I had the PS1. But this is sad, remember the series fondly.

Dug out this old classic tome, it's been a while but the Wipeout memories are still there.

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jealousy

Wipeout 3 was fucking awesome. I put so many hours into that game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yy0RGTaWYM

  On 8/24/2012 at 7:53 PM, jasondonervan said:

Dug out this old classic tome, it's been a while but the Wipeout memories are still there.

 

 

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Amazing.

Hard to believe that artwork was made in 1995 (right?). It looks very contemporary.

The Psygnosis Story: Tim 'Cold Storage' Wright, senior sound artist

The man behind the music in Shadow Of The Beast II, Wipeout and Lemmings on the highs and lows of his time at Psygnosis.

Is a shame, I know a couple of lads who work(ed) there - plus who just escaped the chop by moving to Canada to join Bioware.

: (

Cold Storage is awesome. I really loved wipeout pure, one of my first psp games and with an awesome soundtrack. Pulse (also on psp) was neat too. It's a shame...

  On 8/30/2012 at 8:45 PM, Bread said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V974MkN7v94

Probably one of my all-time favourite Wipeout tunes, which is from my favourite game in the series too.

  On 8/26/2012 at 7:23 PM, Npoess said:

Amazing.

 

Hard to believe that artwork was made in 1995 (right?). It looks very contemporary.

Back then they called it "futuristic" :)

And xpander is a nice tune, one of my favs also. I used to have them all, downloaded piece by piece from some strange game ost site. The rest of the sasha tunes aren't nearly as good though..